DragonCon 2009

Adventure: 20090904









Another DragonCon has come and gone, and unfortunately I think this will probably be the last one I attend.  Frankly, I think DragonCon has just grown too large for my tastes and admittedly rather hermit-like tolerances.  Luckily I did manage to get to see Pete Abrams (Sluggy Freelance), Jennie Breeden (The Devil's Panties), Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza (Least I Could Do and Looking For Group) as well as attend the live recording for Sword and Laser with Veronica Belmont (This WEEK in TECH).  I unfortunately made it to nothing else I wanted to see because of the ridiculous crowds and lines.  (I think the most annoying failure was my attempt to see Randal Schwartz (FLOSS Weekly) which involved getting a cab to drive back to the con from the hotel, showing up a half hour early, and finding that although there were still seats they were all "saved"....  I nearly blew a gasket.)  Kathy did manage to get some pretty decent pictures and I think this collage pretty much conveys the DragonCon experience.

I think I did pretty well for loot though.  My favorite is the 2d20 damage flail.  ^_^

Carrie's ITT Graduation

Adventure 080621

If you happened to be at the June 21st Knoxville TN ITT Graduation ceremony I would like to take a moment to apologize for my friends. They were the bunch of yahoos who screamed "For The WIN!!!" at the top of their lungs. Still, we all are inordinately proud of Carrie, so I suppose a little extra enthusiasm should be forgiven.




(Late back-log addition added on Sat 9/20/2008.)

Tormenting Miki with B5 & Jello

Experiment: 070806

Imagine my delight and joy at your return. Now imagine that expressed as cash. Being a negative number you now owe me $37.50 - Richard "Miki" Evans

Here's an example of why this webpage is called "Sam's Evil Adventure & Experiment Log". Kathy stumbled on a website showing a prank involving placing a stapler into a Jello mold and leaving it on a co-worker's desk. My thought when she showed it to me was "I bet he just tossed the stapler...." So when we decided to do "evil things" to Miki I knew I would need to find something he would be willing to scrape Jello off of to have. That's a copy of "Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales" in the Jello. Yes, he did scrape it off. No, I wasn't kind enough to leave it at that. The disk in the Jello actually only had a copy of the "sock-puppet" version JMS did for the DVD extras. Yes, I did relent and give him a real copy.




(Transferred from the original http://www.samthegiant.com/ website on Wed 9/17/2008.)