Sunday, October 28, 2007

The Easily Understandable Truth

This was just posted to a friends LiveJournal and I think this is so true.



So, what do you think?

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Weekly Calendar 29th Oct to 4th Nov

Karen’s Calendar

(This is a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated. If anyone has other events information that I can put in the calendar, please let me know. I also have a Blog where I’ve been posting the Calendar there with a growing set of links to the clubs mentioned on the calendar. http://www.karens-auckland-calendar.blogspot.com/ Ignore the random course work I have to post)

Coming up this week:

Monday 29th October

• Cinema Nocturne: Weekly movie nights, Arts 209, Firefly episode 2 and 3, doors open 6:30pm, start 7pm.

Tuesday 30th October

• America Club: weekly roleplaying club night at Auckland University City Campus. See their club website for more information. www.theamericaclub.net.nz Meeting will be back on the Lower Common Room tonight.

• Auckland German Board Games club meeting. Mt Albert Baptist, 732 New North Rd. Regular board games each 2nd, 4th, 5th Tuesday of the month. 7pm to 11pm.
Special buy/sell/exchange Market Night as well as playing of games. Prizes!

Wednesday 31st October

• America Club: weekly board games club night at Auckland University City Campus. Meeting is in Ground Zero tonight.

• Auckland University Medieval Guild: weekly club meeting at Auckland University City Campus. All welcome. http://stdionysius.sca.org.nz/
Ground Zero. 7pm to 9pm.

• BloodBowl Federation weekly gaming night. 6pm at Queen's Head Bar & Restaurant, 396 Queen Street, CBD.

Thursday 1st November

• Italian Dance workshops. Check here http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~katherpat/schedule.htm for more information. (note day has moved)

Friday 2nd November

• Venue for the Damned weekly DJ gigs at Oblivion Room. http://www.mukuna.co.nz/auckland/cbd/oblivion.htm

Saturday 3rd November

• Warpstorm 2007 (Wellington) 2 day Warhammer 40K event.

• World Games Day (DnD) Vagabonds and Games HQ (Free roleplaying game)

• YGO Sneak Preview. www.gameplayer.co.nz

Sunday 4th November

• Auckland City Guard Gaming Club: weekly Sunday meeting, at Freemans Bay Community Hall. From 1pm to 5pm. A range of wargames and board games being played including Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Flames of War, Warmachine and Hordes. Cost $3 members/$5 non-members. www.cityguard.co.nz

• Northshore Wargaming Club: meet the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday of the month. Meet in the Forrest Hill Scout Hall in Becroft Park on Becroft Drive. Meetings are from around 10:30am to 5:00pm. http://www.geocities.com/northshore_wargames/index.html

• Weekly Auckland Farmers Market Plus. From 10am to 4pm.
http://www.aucklandfarmersmarket.co.nz/index.html

Happening All Month

• 15 Sept to 18 Nov Exhibition at Ak Museum – Loli-Pop
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/405/loli-pop

• NaNoWriMo http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Things coming up this month – November

7 Wed 14th Annual Watties Can Film Festival
9 to 11 NZLarps Ravenholme: Montague vs. Capulet (Auckland)
18 Sun Star Trek Convention. Meet Q and Ensign Harry Kim. www.pulpexpo.com
17/18 Rally Point 33 (Hamilton) Wargaming event
29th Nov - 2nd December (SCA) St Catherine's Faire camp (Auckland) http://ildhafn.sca.org/stcaths.htm

Things coming up later in the year

December
1 Sat Underpants on the Outside, a comic book/sci-fi event. Grey Lynn Library Hall.
13 Movie Release The Seeker The Dark is Rising (group movie outing)

January 2008

12/13 GizzyCon (Gisborne)
19/20 Kapcon XVII: Random Encounters. Wellington Roleplaying Convention http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/index.html
(includes special Sanctuary Larp http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/larp.html )

February 2008
1-6 SCA Canterbury Faire (Christchurch)
1/2/3 Great Lake Tourney, Spa Park, Taupo. www.taupojoust.com
9/10 BattleCry 2008 (mixture of gaming tournaments) (Auckland)
16/17 Over the Top 2008 (Hamiton) Warhammer, 40K and LotR tournaments.

May 2008
SCA Crown Tournament, Darton. (Wellington)

July 2008
3 to 6 GenCon (Brisbane, Australia) Uber gaming convention http://www.genconoz.com/

Friday, October 26, 2007

#11 Week 5 LibraryThing

Rightio, 200 books isn't enough space, really. If I'm to use this I'll have to buy an account. Hmmm. Anyway I had a look, went through the tutorial and here is my LibraryThing catalog. I've been meaning to set up a catalog of what I have anyway, so this might be the best one. Just have to work out how I can go through my shelves without missing some as they get picked over by my friends alot.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

#10 Week 5 Generators take 2


Rightio, here is the mosaic I made using the FlickrMosaic website.

Myspace, news feeds and the internet

So, on Monday there was the Annual Zombie walk. Some of my friends were there and afterwards there are always lots of pictures. Sadly one of the links to the photo's was the actual offical organisers website, which is a Myspace page. So at midnight Tuesday I'm creating a Myspace account just to look at the photos. Blarg. I now have so many things to log into to read sleep is a luxury. I wonder if I could find a job getting paid piles of dosh just for doing that... :)

Anyway, fun things you find on the internet. I've been looking at sites mentioned in Boingboing which is all the fault of a friend in LiveJournal including this delightful one Talkingweb which features photos of a show of ouija boards and ouija-inspired work by more than a dozen Pop Surrealist artists.

And for those who like Red vs Blue, an amusing look at the Internet.

Monday, October 22, 2007

#10 Week 5 generators

Today during my lunch break I had a look through the generators links off the 2.0 information. I also did some googling but didn't really find any that I particularly liked. I ended up playing around on the Flickr Mosaic programme, made up a mosaic, saved it and went to upload it onto my Flickr acount but the work settings don't seem to like me trying to upload. I've copied it to my memory stick and will upload it when I get home.

I uploaded some more images onto Flickr last night after yesterday's Armageddon. The facepainting booth painted up my face like a zombie, which was fun. I also was the photographer for the cosplay entrants so a pile of them are on my account until I have time to transfer them over to the local cosplay group's photo group.

Weekly Calendar: 22nd to 28th October

Coming up this week (22nd to 28th October):

Monday 22nd October (Labour Day)

3rd day Armageddon (Auckland) http://pulpexpo.com
Zombie Walk during Armageddon 6pm Aotea Square
Dress up and get into Armageddon for free from 3pm onwards, and then gather at 6pm in Aotea Square to shamble on Queen St http://www.myspace.com/zombiewalknz Prizes!!

Cinema Nocturne: Weekly movie nights no on due to public holiday

Tuesday 23rd October

America Club: weekly roleplaying club night at Auckland University City Campus. See their club website for more information. www.theamericaclub.net.nz Meeting will be back on the Lower Common Room tonight.

Wednesday 24th October

America Club: weekly board games club night at Auckland University City Campus. Meeting is in Ground Zero tonight.

Auckland University Medieval Guild: weekly club meeting at Auckland University City Campus. All welcome. http://stdionysius.sca.org.nz/
Ground Zero. 7pm to 9pm.

Thursday 25th October

Italian Dance workshops. Check here http://shell.world-net.co.nz/~katherpat/schedule.htm for more information. (note day has moved)

Movie Release: Resident Evil :Extinction (group movie outing)

Friday 26th October

Venue for the Damned weekly DJ gigs at Oblivion Room. http://www.mukuna.co.nz/auckland/cbd/oblivion.htm

Saturday 27th October

The Killing Fields, Henderson Games Club, LotR tournament.

Sunday 28th October

Auckland City Guard Gaming Club: weekly Sunday meeting, at Freemans Bay Community Hall. From 1pm to 5pm. A range of wargames and board games being played including Warhammer Fantasy, 40K, Flames of War, Warmachine and Hordes. Cost $3 members/$5 non-members. www.cityguard.co.nz

Northshore Wargaming Club: meet the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday of the month. Meet in the Forrest Hill Scout Hall in Becroft Park on Becroft Drive. Meetings are from around 10:30am to 5:00pm. http://www.geocities.com/northshore_wargames/index.html

Weekly Auckland Farmers Market Plus. From 10am to 4pm.
http://www.aucklandfarmersmarket.co.nz/index.html

Happening All Month

15 Sept to 18 Nov Exhibition at Ak Museum – Loli-Pop
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/405/loli-pop

Things coming up next month – October

29 Vs Elite Series. Vagabond Queen Street. See www.gameplayer.co.nz

Things coming up later in the year

November
All Month NaNoWriMo http://www.nanowrimo.org/
3/4 World Games Day (DnD) Vagabonds and HQ
2/3 Warpstorm 2007 (Wellington) Warhammer 40K event
7 Wed 14th Annual Watties Can Film Festival
9 to 11 NZLarps Ravenholme: Montague vs. Capulet (Auckland)
17/18 Rally Point 33 (Hamilton) Wargaming event
29th Nov - 2nd December (SCA) St Catherine's Faire camp (Auckland) http://ildhafn.sca.org/stcaths.htm

December
13 Movie Release The Seeker The Dark is Rising (group movie outing)

January 2008
19/20 Kapcon XVII: Random Encounters. Wellington Roleplaying Convention http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/index.html
(includes special Sanctuary Larp http://kapcon.rpg.net.nz/kapconXVII/larp.html )

February 2008
1-6 SCA Canterbury Faire (Christchurch)
1/2/3 Great Lake Tourney, Spa Park, Taupo. www.taupojoust.com
9/10 BattleCry 2008 (mixture of gaming tournaments) (Auckland)
16/17 Over the Top 2008 (Hamiton) Warhammer, 40K and LotR tournaments.

May 2008
SCA Crown Tournament, Darton. (Wellington)

July 2008
3 to 6 GenCon (Brisbane, Australia) Uber gaming convention http://www.genconoz.com/