| Jupon |
[Aug. 27th, 2009|03:45 pm] |
So, if a person was suddenly looking at putting together something c. 1350-60. Are there any particular must-see references, either online or in the library that they should look at?
A friend is looking at having me make him a padded gambeson based upon the Charles de Blois pourpoint, and the more I looked at it, the more I was thinking that it would be fun to make myself a somewhat less padded version. But it won't exactly go with my c16 pants and boots, so I guess one piece will lead on to more... |
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| Storm Large is so awesome! |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|08:35 am] |
Storm Large is quite the Portland rock celebrity and this is her latest music video.
OK, fair warning time:
- This is totally NSFW.
- Listening to this song is really likely to get it stuck in your head.
- Singing said song under your breath gets you really strange looks, especially if you're a guy.
Otherwise, it's fully awesome:
OK, I've spent the whole morning posting this on to friends, guess I should start work. Thanks Jeff. :)
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| How computers have changed |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|11:55 am] |
An interesting performance metric reared it's head today. I just downloaded the source for and then built a complete copy of GNU Emacs for my MacBook in under 11 minutes (and my MacBook's actually on the slow side based on the current models). It really doesn't seem that long since that same thing used to take hours.
That said, I had Gnu Emacs running on an Atari ST and I think that building that freak was the work of a weekend, though bootstrapping the tools needed might well have been a good chunk of that. |
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| MacBook for sale |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|02:35 pm] |
I've upgraded to a MacBook pro and have a very nice, 6 month old MacBook for sale. This is a really good deal, both as a Mac and as a light functional laptop, in fact I liked it so much I got a bigger one rather than another Windows laptop.
Details here: ebay link
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| Cats... |
[May. 19th, 2009|10:27 pm] |
First came "An Engineer's Guide to Cats"
Now they bring us 'Advanced Cat Yodeling":
Fully awesome :)
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| Costume questions: Kingdom of Sicily |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|04:02 pm] |
I saw this in Vienna a while ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_nice_gaius/1050712317/in/set-72157601306437835/ a very nice 12th century Norman Sicilian dalmatica, it got me thinking :)
A) It's a fascinating period in history.
B) Sicily was one of the most interesting parts of the world in that period being a crossroads between western Europe, Byzantium and the Arab world.
C) It would make for something cooler to wear than full Elizabethan during hot summer events.
Can anyone recommend any particular costuming resources that I could use to persue this a bit further? I've got enough photos that I can probably make a pretty good stab at a tunic quite like that one, at least as far as seam placement and cut is concerned, but other than that one item, I'm a bit in the dark. |
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| An Tir Kingdom A&S questions.... |
[Jan. 15th, 2009|10:59 am] |
I know it's a bit late, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) katanubis reminded me that if I want to enter I should do so quickly since apparently the deadline has been extended.
So I thought, well that's easy, I should be able to work this out, what's the new deadline, and what do I have to do. More to the point, have I already dithered too much to meet any new deadline.
So, off to the events list, find the event web site, obviously the answer should be there.
Wrong.
Kingdom A&S might be at Wastekeep, but as far as the web site's concerned, it's something you visit, and if you want to compete you must get the information elsewhere. There's reference to a 12th night deadline, well I missed that, and anyway it sounds like that's incorrect. There's reference to an Entrant's Handbook, but no suggestion as to where you'd get such a thing. Finally there's a blank reference to the A&S web site, but no link. I also remember that the format of the competition has changed from previous years, again, details of this would be handy.
So, can anyone fill in the gaps and point me to how you are meant to find this stuff out?
Thank you.
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| Mac part one |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|03:56 pm] |
I've been a long time PC user, and I mean long time; I've been using them since before Windows 1 came out. Anyway, I've got a new MacBook, so I thought that I'd write up first impressions whilst they were actually first impressions :)
( Read more... )
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| Grouting |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|03:43 pm] |
So, grouting bathroom tiles sucks. Part of it's easy, and part of it is like trying to wipe up hardened concrete with a sponge. In fact it's not just like that, it is that. Bah. Anyway, Lowes put me on to "DuPont heavy duty Grout Haze Remover" and it's freaking awesome! Still a good bit of scrubbing involved, but way the heck easier :) I'll trade $10 for hours of hard work any day.
Happy day. |
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