{"id":13,"date":"2008-02-24T06:29:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T23:12:06","slug":"a-very-nerdy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/a-very-nerdy-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Nerdy Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Stitches West yesterday and dropped a fair bit of money on some delicious yarn:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The whole kit and kaboodle by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2287094197\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/2287094197_0630a1d729.jpg\" alt=\"The whole kit and kaboodle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s not even all of it, there is a beautiful pink\/red skein too).  The Noro sock yarn perfectly matches my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2187662603\">Noro scarf<\/a> I made last month.  I will be making socks until I die. Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>Today I went to Wondercon with Sam and Mark.  It&#8217;s fun to go, to reaffirm that I am not as nerdy as I think I am.  Not even close.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wondercon 2008 by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2287106401\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2389\/2287106401_c3a75ee4c9.jpg\" alt=\"Wondercon 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Wondercon tradition is that I lose my swag bag given at the door.  I got distracted by the Wacom booth &#8211; they were demonstrating the Cintiq, and I got to try it, it&#8217;s really cool. I have a pressure tablet that I use to draw on in Photoshop, and a Cintiq is like that, only you are drawing on the computer screen. It&#8217;s so effin&#8217; awesome! Anyway, I am pretty sure I lost my bag there.<\/p>\n<p>But I remembered to bring my camera, and while I didn&#8217;t document that much, I did meet my goal of documenting the existence of Boba Fett and Friends:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boba and Friends by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2287894574\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2052\/2287894574_569dcbd70a.jpg\" alt=\"Boba and Friends\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good times, people, good times.<\/p>\n<p>So, we sat in on two panels &#8211; the Disney panel, where they previewed <em>Prince Caspian<\/em> and <em>Wall-E<\/em> (new Pixar) &#8211; both look pretty good. Then, the Fox panel, which previewed <em>Shutter<\/em> (yawn &#8211; another Japanese horror remake a la <em>The Ring<\/em> or <em>The Grudge<\/em>) AND <strong>THE X-FILES MOVIE<\/strong> featuring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson&#8217;s first con appearance ever.<\/p>\n<p>The X-Files fandom is beyond ridiculous, but I suppose all fandoms are.  It was just a pretty cool panel with Mulder and Scully and Chris Carter eating a sandwich and discussing their favorite episodes.  They didn&#8217;t really talk about the new movie except to say that it also starred Xhibit and Amanda Peet.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I will actually make a Jayne hat and wear it like the nerd I think I am (but am not, not even close).<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/a-very-nerdy-weekend\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Stitches West yesterday and dropped a fair bit of money on some delicious yarn: (That&#8217;s not even all of it, there is a beautiful pink\/red skein too). The Noro sock yarn perfectly matches my Noro scarf I made last month. I will be making socks until I die. Hurray! Today I went &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/a-very-nerdy-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Very Nerdy Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,41],"tags":[235,275],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-daily","category-yarn","tag-stitches-west","tag-things-that-are-nerdy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}