I’ve been using ComicPress to publish coming on Think Weasel! for several years now. A while ago, I set it up on this site as well, as a way to showcase photos and test new features before using them on our comic sites.
A couple weeks before DragonCon, the current developer released a major update. Now that things are calming down post-Con, I’ll be doing some tests here, stay tuned.
Its always been odd to me that a private, for-profit corporation runs with an all volunteer labor force. I’ve always wondered how much of the money goes into the Con and how much goes to the handful of shareholders. With that said, I support the decision of both parties (the company and the volunteers) to do this! They are all adults and nobody is forcing them into it.
It takes an army: an army of unpaid volunteers, who are at the heart of what makes Dragon Con a success each year.
57,000 people attended the science fiction and fantasy convention Dragon Con in downtown Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. It’s staffed by over 1,800 volunteers who put in anywhere from 25 to 80 or more hours of work during the convention.
via An army of unpaid volunteers are at the heart of Dragon Con | WABE 90.1 FM.
With all our problems over the past few years with insomnia, I found this worth reading. Is it a better way? Who knows? But its interesting to consider how electric light has impacted our sleep patterns.
Ok, maybe your grandparents probably slept like you. And your great, great-grandparents. But once you go back before the 1800s, sleep starts to look a lot different. Your ancestors slept in a way that modern sleepers would find bizarre – they slept twice. And so can you.
I remember this ride from a trip with my mother to California in 1984, the same year the Olympics was in Los Angeles. I sat in the sub next to athletes with ID tags from several different countries and military helicopters flying overhead.
I went to a funfair for the first time in a long time on date night last weekend and the sights, sounds and smells of being around those rides caused an overwhelming nostalgia to stir inside me, pulling me back to my childhood. Ambling home clutching our funfair prizes and looking back at the flashing neon lights that rule the skyline over the Place Concorde in August, I began to wonder what happens to those gigantic, elaborate structures when they run out of steam.
via The Rise & Fall of the Greatest Ride that Ever Was | Messy Nessy Chic Messy Nessy Chic.
It’s odd weather for early this part of Summer. For the past few years, it’s been hot as fuck with August usually the worst of it. This time around though, we have unusually cool temperatures this weekend. Its almost like October! Will it still be around for Dragon*Con? I don’t know, we will see soon enough.
We made it out for this month’s Drink & Draw at the Mello Mushroom in Decatur. Last month I was feeling sick and drawing was the last thing on my mind. The month before, we were heading to Heroes Con, so we skipped it for trip prep. Except for a couple annoyances, it was fun.