billroper: (Default)
billroper ([personal profile] billroper) wrote2025-11-06 11:06 pm
Entry tags:

Windycon Moving

The committee and guest banquet was tonight, so I headed down to the Windycon hotel. We sorted out a few small things and now I'm at home, the minivan is mostly packed, and tomorrow I will head back to the hotel.

Gretchen will follow as soon as school lets out.

Go team!
lsanderson: (Default)
lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2025-11-06 09:54 am

2025.11.06

Interview
‘I’m so not scary. But my features can be’: Fiona Shaw on Austen, Andor and Harry Potter
As told to Amy Fleming
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/06/im-so-not-scary-but-my-features-can-be-fiona-shaw-on-austen-andor-and-harry-potter

The food stamp fight signals an era of unprecedented cruelty in America
Katrina vanden Heuvel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/06/food-stamp-cuts-snap-benefits

Interview
‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film
Garth Cartwright
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/06/christone-kingfish-ingram-interview-sinners

Review
The Choral review – Ralph Fiennes leads the choir in impressively unsentimental Alan Bennett fable
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
Peter Bradshaw
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/06/the-choral-review-alan-bennett-ralph-fiennes

Review
Death by Lightning review – absolutely nobody plays losers like Matthew Macfadyen
The Succession actor is utterly brilliant in every moment of this punchy historical miniseries. His portrayal of the crank who killed the US president in 1881 takes his mastery to the next level
Jack Seale
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/06/death-by-lightning-review-matthew-macfadyen-netflix
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-06 09:00 am
Entry tags:
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote2025-11-06 05:55 am
Entry tags:

Saori WX60 floor loom assembly WIP

cat and floor loom

cat and floor loom

Loom assembly to continue...after...catten removes herself from possibly having screws DROPPED on her... /o\

Special thanks to Jill of Saori Santa Cruz, [personal profile] merrileemakes, and my husband for helping me figure out which part of assembly I borked yesterday!
billroper: (Default)
billroper ([personal profile] billroper) wrote2025-11-05 05:50 pm
Entry tags:

Time to Pay the Cubase Tax

Cubase 15 has dropped, which means that it is time to pay the annual Cubase tax for the upgrade. This is ok, because I expect it and I get a stack of new features.

Among the stack of new features is the AI vocal synthesizer. It's still in beta form, but it allows you to construct male and female vocals from a melody line. It includes full automation capability so that you can dial the various parameters around to create expression.

Overall, I think I'd prefer to have my friends singing along with me.

In any case, I won't be looking at this until *after* Windycon.
ffutures: (Default)
ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2025-11-05 07:21 pm
Entry tags:

Another RPG Bundle - Over the Edge 3rd Edition

This is a bundle of the 2019 Third Edition of Jonathan Tweet's RPG Over the Edge, from Atlas Games, possibly THE classic weird science / weird conspiracy RPG

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OTE3E



This is a comprehensive revision of the system and setting, making big changes to characters, locations, and conspiracies, with huge amounts of weirdness in the introductory adventures alone. Even if you already have tons of material and a long-running campaign based on earlier editions, it's worth getting this just to mess with player expectations and show them that the world doesn't even stay the same sort of weird indefinitely.

As may be obvious, I'm a big fan, and this offer gives you plenty to play with. Definitely recommended!
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 02:04 pm
Entry tags:

Over the Edge 3E



The Third Edition corebook, scenarios, and 18 music tracks

Over the Edge 3E
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 03:25 pm

Time Well Spent

Invested too much time statting out a character I will probably never use.

Evan Mason: Captain Jetpack!

Read more... )
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 09:14 am

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa



Hinako Yaotose is saved by certain doom... by a monster who wants to let Hinaka ripen a bit before eating her.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa
ffutures: (Default)
ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2025-11-05 01:49 pm

Forgotten Futures CD-ROM

For some time now my web site has experienced frequent outages due to excessive traffic. As an experiment I've taken the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM zip file off the site. It was by far the biggest file on the site, and it's possible that repeated downloads were causing the problem.

Instead I've uploaded it to archive.org as a zip file, about 658mb - open the link in a new tab or page!

https://archive.org/details/ffcd-8-zip

This takes everything that was on the last release of the CD-ROM plus a lot of extra material that would have been on the next release if there had been one. It won't all fit onto a CD-ROM any more, but if you unzip it into a subdirectory of your hard drive it ought to work well.

Note - Links to Empire of Earth, which would have been Forgotten Futures XII, do not work.

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

billroper: (Default)
billroper ([personal profile] billroper) wrote2025-11-04 11:46 pm
Entry tags:

Getting Less Behind

I assembled the racks for the additional bit of grid for our dealer table at Windycon, because I am busily figuring out how to get 18 feet worth of merchandise onto 12 linear feet of table. The answer is to go up! And to bring the CD tower from home too, although that's not a great way to display much of anything.

Meanwhile, I have finished the draft of the Opening Ceremonies script and am off to do Closing Ceremonies now. Happily, Closing Ceremonies is much simpler. :)
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 11:14 am

My terrible confession

Because both shows feature a red-haired teenaged girl with a monosyllabic name and a troubled relationship with their family, my brain merged the continuities of Son of a Critch and Stranger Things.
lsanderson: (Default)
lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2025-11-04 08:25 am

Please vote today

If you ain't voted yet, please vote today in our fair cities elections.

If you are wondering who to vote for, please see this Nextdoor post where he lists three sources to check, including Naomi Kritzer, https://nextdoor.com/p/7CQ-GCQmPXXc?view=detail
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 08:43 am
Entry tags:

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh



A trading voyage leads to first contact and a delightful process of mutual discovery.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh
kalloway: (GW Zechs)
Kalloway ([personal profile] kalloway) wrote2025-11-04 07:34 am
Entry tags:

Several Summers Later

The top half of a model of Wing Gundam cradled in a hand wearing a black glove. It is mostly white, blue, and yellow, and is looking modestly into the camera.


I bought MG Wing Gundam ver.Ka back in April of 2018, which is several lifetimes ago now. Looking at that date, I momentarily wondered how I'd managed to get to a nerd convention. The Summer of the Doors, however, was a little closer to actually happening in summer; that ridiculousness started in May.

I don't think the Summer of the Doors, and by that I do mean actual physical doors not The Doors, had anything to do with not tackling Wing back then. It was more that Wing is a MG and at that point I'd never actually finished an MG. It took until this year to finish MG Infinite Justice and I'd started him back in what, 2010?

I've actually finished Wing, but I like this half-built photo best. He's got a lot of personality and while building went from rather morose to downright adorable and has settled into somewhat resigned. (I think he's cute though.)

Well, finished aside from waterslide decals, which I need both practice with and to make some decisions because like many MGs, Wing comes with a ridiculous amount of decals and the instructional photos and diagrams honestly look overdone. I also have a tiny Heero Yuy still on the runner and the urge to paint him as a youngster Gai Murakumo is intense.

The rest of my week involves getting the kitchen under control so I can keep cleaning up Monster High dolls for the nerd convention in a couple of weeks.

So much to sort through, so little time and energy.
billroper: (Default)
billroper ([personal profile] billroper) wrote2025-11-03 09:35 pm
Entry tags:

Scripting It

Working on the scripts for Opening and Closing Ceremonies at Windycon 51 that is coming up this weekend. I am later than I wanted to be, because of the proximity to OVFF. I should have a good draft by tomorrow and then I can circulate it for any necessary edits.

Deadlines! They're not just for breakfast any more!