Arisia Report - Part 1 Jan 21, 2008

Part 2 will be posted friends-only. Sorry, general public, but there's things I don't want to discuss with the whole world.

Arisia 2008 was by any rational measure very successful for me, for Intercon, and for Alleged Entertainment. Some highlights...

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Grrrr Dec 28, 2007

Went out to my car this morning to find the front passenger-side window punched in.

They'd obviously been through the glove compartment, but all my stuff was still there.  They didn't take the ($80) iPod adapter, they didn't take the ($200) GPS unit...

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Sure, I'll bite Dec 13, 2007

Stolen from <p class="ljuser">[info]tpau</p>.

So, for "first pet," since I've never owned a pet that I named, I'm going with "first computer" instead.  My first computer was named Sonic.

  1. Your rock star name (first pet, current car): Sonic Echo

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Another music meme Nov 27, 2007

Yoinked from

[info]gruyere

. 1. Put your music player on "random." Skip songs with not-very interesting titles (such as "Concerto #4 in E minor"). 2. List the titles of the first 25 songs to come up. 3. Put "in my pants" after each title.

As an added bonus...

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The Journey Ahead Nov 9, 2007

Since my last few posts have been fluffy meme-age, I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about something real I've been working on: the next version of Journey.

Most of you probably don't know what Journey is, although a lot of people may have used...

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Holy crap Oct 24, 2007

Gmail users: now you can use IMAP instead of crappy POP3.

Yes, , I'm looking at you. :)

Stolen from captainecchi Oct 18, 2007

  • How did you choose your LJ name? What does it mean?

"Nat Budin" is actually my real name. Well, my full name is "Nathaniel Lang Budin." I go by "Nat" because "Nathaniel" sounds very old-fashioned. "Lang" is my mom's maiden name, and it's also...

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Another LARP-related poll Oct 12, 2007

Hello, folks! Last night, at the Festival of the LARPs 2008 kickoff meeting, we settled on two possible weekends for the convention, but we didn't have a strong preference as to which one it should be. Our decision was that we should post a poll...

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LARP poll results, and a plug Oct 9, 2007

OK, the results of the last entry (the poll on what LARP we should run this spring) were interesting. I had no idea there was actually interest in us running Snaf University at Brandeis again, considering how recent the last one was. I'm still a...

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