Work has been intruding into my posting time...so an update:
Norwescon was lots of fun. I went to several panels and the costuming there can get quite outr. Lots of nice eye candy.
One panel was on Saturn, and the things the Cassini Huygens probes are finding out. Lots of nice pictures. You can see a lot about Saturn at Nasa's web site
Another was entitled: "You can't take the sky from me" and was, of course, about Firefly and the upcoming movie, Serenity. Hear some spoilers that I won't repeat here. One person that was not on the panel is a propmaker who made some of the props used on Firefly and Serenity, and he had a chance to take some pictures of the set--which he let us see.
This year had promised to have some good Filk concerts, but of four groups/individuals planned, all of them either canceled due to illness of one of the members, or "life happened".
There was some cool art in the art show. There were dances Friday and Saturday nights.
I'm almost finished reading one of the give-away books, Neal Asher's Gridlinked which is a little uneven, but not a bad book.
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Fast forward to Yesterday
I like playing darts...but don't do it often.
First, there's the definitional problem... Darts have steel tips. Unfortunately, a lot of the real dart boards have been replaced with those abominations with plastic tips.
Second, there's the problem that most dart boards are in pubs...typically smoky ones.
My friend Terry and I started throwing darts occasionally when we worked at a prior company we worked at in 2000-2001. He's quite the experienced dart player, and so I had him choose a set of nice titanium (read thin, heavy) darts for me. We'd go to Murphy's pub in Wallingford or a pub in Kirkland that no longer has a dart board since they changed hands.
But we didn't know of anyplace around Pioneer Square that had a dart board, so all the time we've been at our current company in the Smith Tower, we haven't played.
Last night I didn't have to go home at any particular time, and Terry had to pick his partner up at the airport at 11...so I suggested we go out and play some darts, but needed to find someplace to play. So it was Google to the rescue.
Searching for Seattle "dart pub" found a list of dart pubs in Washington and what type of boards they had. Turns out just a few blocks from the Smith Tower is the "Owl & Thistle" which has a dart board beside two of the abominations.
So we got there and found that there were two others just prepping to play--and only one board... We were at first crestfallen, thinking that we weren't going to be able to play, but they suggested a game of doubles cricket.
Terry had to remind me how to play, but we wound up splitting four games with them. In the third game, and the first that we won, I managed to get the final bulls-eye that ended the game. In the last game, Terry had a wonderful throw, placing all three darts in the outer bulls-eye--the first time he'd ever done that. In both of those last games, it had come down to whichever team go the next bulls-eye would win.
Norwescon was lots of fun. I went to several panels and the costuming there can get quite outr. Lots of nice eye candy.
One panel was on Saturn, and the things the Cassini Huygens probes are finding out. Lots of nice pictures. You can see a lot about Saturn at Nasa's web site
Another was entitled: "You can't take the sky from me" and was, of course, about Firefly and the upcoming movie, Serenity. Hear some spoilers that I won't repeat here. One person that was not on the panel is a propmaker who made some of the props used on Firefly and Serenity, and he had a chance to take some pictures of the set--which he let us see.
This year had promised to have some good Filk concerts, but of four groups/individuals planned, all of them either canceled due to illness of one of the members, or "life happened".
There was some cool art in the art show. There were dances Friday and Saturday nights.
I'm almost finished reading one of the give-away books, Neal Asher's Gridlinked which is a little uneven, but not a bad book.
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Fast forward to Yesterday
I like playing darts...but don't do it often.
First, there's the definitional problem... Darts have steel tips. Unfortunately, a lot of the real dart boards have been replaced with those abominations with plastic tips.
Second, there's the problem that most dart boards are in pubs...typically smoky ones.
My friend Terry and I started throwing darts occasionally when we worked at a prior company we worked at in 2000-2001. He's quite the experienced dart player, and so I had him choose a set of nice titanium (read thin, heavy) darts for me. We'd go to Murphy's pub in Wallingford or a pub in Kirkland that no longer has a dart board since they changed hands.
But we didn't know of anyplace around Pioneer Square that had a dart board, so all the time we've been at our current company in the Smith Tower, we haven't played.
Last night I didn't have to go home at any particular time, and Terry had to pick his partner up at the airport at 11...so I suggested we go out and play some darts, but needed to find someplace to play. So it was Google to the rescue.
Searching for Seattle "dart pub" found a list of dart pubs in Washington and what type of boards they had. Turns out just a few blocks from the Smith Tower is the "Owl & Thistle" which has a dart board beside two of the abominations.
So we got there and found that there were two others just prepping to play--and only one board... We were at first crestfallen, thinking that we weren't going to be able to play, but they suggested a game of doubles cricket.
Terry had to remind me how to play, but we wound up splitting four games with them. In the third game, and the first that we won, I managed to get the final bulls-eye that ended the game. In the last game, Terry had a wonderful throw, placing all three darts in the outer bulls-eye--the first time he'd ever done that. In both of those last games, it had come down to whichever team go the next bulls-eye would win.
Serenity looks cool. Thanks for summin' up NorwesCon for those of us who didn't make it. And thanks for your sweet comments in my jernul!