....Thanks.

I could never have the guts to do what you do.

So again....thanks.

Mike Wazowski's arm fell off last nite during a christmas show at WDW.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRP8ZHLXFL0

the carnage starts at 4:25

Disney, that is what you get for trying to start celebrating xmas on NOV 10 !!!  WTF? 

You are lucky I wasn't there as Brer Fox cuz I totally would have NOMMED ON IT ! 

Just finished Book 9 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen: Dust of Dreams. I'm physically shaken. These books are a blessing and a curse.

A year to wait, or more, before the final book.

-Reveille

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Ok everyone!This is the first official call out to anyone going to FC who would like to be a panelist in the species track. For anyone who does want to be a panelist, please email me at Fuzzygothgirl@yahoo.com with contact info and what panel you wish to do.

Along with the normal species panels this year, I have had requests for a new one. I give you the Created species panel! This panel is for those of you who have made up their own species or race and have it as a persona!

Any comments or questions can be posted here!

Bad Day and the Dwarf

I rear-ended a car this morning. I knew it was going to be a
REALLY bad day. The driver got out of the other car, and he
was a DWARF!

He looked up at me and said, "I am NOT happy!"

So I said, "Well, which one ARE you then?"

That's how the fight started.

(Sent to me from a friend in Florida)

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall that divided the capital of Germany along with the Iron Curtain across the rest of the country.


Shortly before he passed away in 1992, Steve Ross, who was then CEO of Time Warner Inc., purchased a huge block of the demolished wall, had it chopped up into small chunks which were then encased in Lexan, and distributed these fragments as free paperweights to all Time Warner media corporate employees, including myself. This was meant to be his final gift to us as a reminder of the freedoms we have and must continually defend.

Note the weird orange and other artifacting on the stone. Imagine the history that must be encased in this object, not to mention the asbestos, oxides and toxic polutants kept isolated from the breath of freedom on the outside.

I'm feeling a little better today. The drive in was nice. The coffee machine in the kitchen was busted, so I had to go to another kitchen. And then my oatmeal exploded in the microwave. But it's okay. I have coffee. And then I got an email that my 401k loan had been approved, so I'll have a huge amount of wiggle room in case I have unanticipated costs. Hopefully I won't, though, and I'll just be able to hold onto it as a security blanket.

Work continues, unabated. Oh, and I didn't get to work on the bird at all last night...for various reasons that I won't go into here.

So much shit to do. So little time.

-Reveille

Today they held an outdoor media event here in New York honoring Sesame Street on their 40th anniversary on television. This involved a ceremonial (temporary) street renaming ceremony across Broadway from the Workshop's headquarters near Lincoln Center at West 64 Street and culminated with the unveiling of a custom sign made for the occaision.

caroll_spinney had already alerted me to this upcoming event a couple of weeks earlier after informing me that I wouldn't be able to watch them tape for the 2010-11 season already in production because his Mondays (i.e. my day off work) were cancelled (and for that future 25-show season, Big Bird will only appear on 4 episodes). So Caroll invited me down to watch the press event today. However of course that didn't grant me any press credentials so I wound up getting kicked out by security-in-black from the park block barricaded off for the show several times no matter how unobtrusive I tried to be, even almost getting hit by a couple of taxis and a bus while being forced out into a lane of traffic. Eventually though I did manage to find a decent spot on the other side of the zone and was able to witness and record the festivities even while having to compete with the legitimate media on hand.


Caroll was actually there to puppet Oscar, with his stand-in Matt Vogel inside Big Bird. The core longtime principal cast members were present as were the Muppet monster stars such as Elmo and Abbycadabby. What was really strange though was that they also had the costume character Elmo (the real one) and Abby on hand too in the background.

So they had the usual speeches from both Sesame Workshop and City reps and then they unveiled the sign. Afterwards the real press moved in close to do all their interviews for the news tonight and Workshop staffers all dressed in Sesame t-shirts posed for pictures with the cast.

( More pictures here... )

Funny how after knowing Caroll all these years I never had my picture taken with Oscar until now.


Oscar was nice enough to give me a video byte to air and later Big Bird gave me a sound byte.

Now I've got to come back here tomorrow when everybody is gone and tape a wraparound for RTR on this block.

On Tuesday PBS will air the season premiere of Sesame Street on the actual 40th anniversary of the show's 1969 debut. Turns out that was the show I watched them tape back in February. Here's the recap from that show.

After finishing up there and saying goodbye to Caroll and his wife Debi, I had some errands to run, including swapping out RTR tapes at MNN, dropping by my storage space to pick up a prop violin for the MFF variety show, and then down to Brooklyn to attend a meeting of the Save Coney Island coalition.

Looking for decent quality dalmatian print fur. I only see the one that crscrafts carries and that one is very low quality. Is mendels version the same stuff crscrafts carries?

Throw me some links if you have them :D

in about 30 minuets, that's gonna change ;)




http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=biggest+day+in+entertainment+history&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Okay, so I recently (as in this past week) agreed to be Art Track Lead for Further Confusion 2010. I now have a list of panel ideas, but no one to really host them. I am asking for folks who are willing, or who have recommendations.

Current panel ideas:
Life drawing 1: objects
Life drawing 2: figures
Colored marker and pencil
Using gold and minerals
Sketch exercise: improv comedy meets pictionary
The erotic line
Digital zone: illustrator
Digital zone: photoshop
Digital zone: 3D programs
Digital zone: storyboard and animatics
Gold rush era in architecture and landscapes - for this one we need someone to help us get the AV material. (the gold rush is from 1825-1850)


Chip!

I feel like shit today. :P Tired, and nothing is working. This is like, the day where all the computers hated me. Well fuck them. :P *deletedeletedelete* Eat it, stupid shit VM pieces of shit.

And now all of my coworkers have decided to either vanish, or change their workout schedules, so I'm probably going to go home instead of work out.

And since I feel so meh, I'm going to have to fight like hell to get myself motivated to work on bird.

Double meh.

-Reveille

Just did 2010 vacation scheculing at work so here is where you will see me in 2010

FCN
Ocean City, NJ Doo Dah Parade
King Elliots Spring Gathering
RCFM
AC
Megaplex

Furfright (?) , MFF (?) Too early to tell

Congrats to bluerain! Her comic strip submission, "Girl", is the grand prize winner in Amazon's contest!



Head over and offer congratulations!