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Katrina "ShadokatRegn"
Colorado
Interests: Video games, journalism, Co-optimus.com, bad movies, comic books, geeks, cartoons, urban fantasy books, crazy people, unicorns, theater/Broadway, puzzles, fencing.
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I'm a sucker for the pets. I can't visit an animal shelter without coming home with one, and am happy to support such a cause from a distance with my credit card.
My family and I have rescued dogs from shelters and poor home situations since I was a kid, and will never feel like I can give enough back to those who help animals. My little girl (who isn't so little anymore) was adopted at 2 months old from a home that couldn't afford to feed her, or any of her siblings (yet refused to get the mother spayed) once they were weened. I fell in love with her when the Facebook plea from a friend of a friend to take free puppies appeared - and my cat still hates me for it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34325046@N06/sets/72157624889590463/ Her face can tell you more than I ever could.
puppy love and the wiggle waggle walk
This is our dog, Seamus: Seamus is in our lives because of people like you, who read my blog and supported Anne and me when we decided to celebrate the memory of our awesome dog, Ferris, and did the Wiggle Waggle Walk for the Pasadena Humane Society in 2009. Anne wrote: Just over 8 years ag...
Just a bit of a shameless plug for future reference on the cooperative gaming big, Co-optimus.com has a few health vials for anyone interested.
Otherwise, man, I wish my friends played board games. They've turned into digital snobs once HDTV's came out. I'm glad to get in a session of D&D once a month or so. I'd love to get them into Arkham Horror for sure.
A few geeky games that are worth setting aside some Geek Time to play
I've discovered that, unless I specifically set aside Geek Time for me, Wil Wheaton, I end up doing nothing but work. This isn't entirely bad, because most of the work I do is geek-related, but I eventually run out of HP, and I have to recharge. by doing some private geeky thing, like reading co...
Jack Skellington - well done! Happy Halloween to you as well!
Happy Halloween!
More spooky pictures from past Halloweens in my Flickr stream. Last year's Halloween edition of Radio Free Burrito.
Do people wonder why the prices of indie PC games, indie music, downloadable books/audiobooks, etc are going up? At this point, the economy isn't just effecting those with crummy 9-5's, all the starving artists are worse off since the people that want to enjoy things will enjoy them without actually paying the price to.
Buy your shit, guy-who-Wil-won't-link-to-for-obvious-reasons. Really, stealing is punishable by +5 internet flame...and sometimes jail.
an open letter to the guy who put just a geek the audiobook on his website for people to steal
Hi there, guy-who-I-won't-link-to-for-obvious-reasons, I'm Wil Wheaton. I wrote Just A Geek, and I created the audiobook you're helping people steal. You may not know this, but I 'm just one guy, without a publisher, so when you help people steal this copy of Just A Geek by making it available f...
Oh, you. I think this goes a bit beyond one of those freudian slips, into a whole new realm of "Did I just say that?"
from the vault: the excellence incident
This was originally written years ago, when I was still finding my personal narrative voice, and still enjoyed the beefy goodness of a slaughtered bovine creature with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. I've cleaned it up and meddled with it a tiny bit, because I can't resist meddling with thin...
This is always a huge struggle for those writers that have full time work, especially with companies (see: Corporations) that refuse to give any down time to jot down notes. I used to write on my lab coat when I'd get ideas in the middle of the night, then have to find a way to get ink out of white cloth.
As much as I feel better that I'm not the only one that stares at the wall thinking about things in another mental language, it's unfortunate that many would-be-writers will never make waves. Many of them simply do not have the time to devote to thinking or writing.
time to write
Working on Leverage inspired and stirred up all those weird things in my brain that make me an artist. In an effort to maintain the creative momentum I experienced while working on the show, I went directly from wrapping my episode to working on this series of short stories I've wanted to write ...
Very awesome resources, especially with so many people having a hard time getting /real/ publishers to listen to them. Thanks for sharing!
a few self-publishing resources
The positive response to Sunken Treasure has surprised and delighted me even more than the fantastic sales of both the print and PDF versions. As of this writing, PDF sales have vastly exceeded my expectations, and though print sales have slowed, they haven't stopped. I've seen a direct relation...
In the wise words of one Huey Lewis:
It's hip to be a square. Wait...
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
I couldn't agree more that we size things oddly here, and women need geek shirts, too! (I did forget about the chest-shoulder ratio part, too. I guess that was kind of important!)
Again, Nice design Wil!
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
Well you're certainly no fun. ;)
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
>That style of T-shirt is shaped differently than men's or generic T-shirts?
Girlie tees are definitely cut differently; the sleeves are shorter (much like the difference between the length of mens and womens shorts,) and the mid section is tapered inward. Generic male tee shirts end up looking very boxy on women in general.
Also the sizes are insanely different: mens small fits me like a two-person tent, whereas womens small fits just right.
Every time I go to my local comic book store, I spend a fair amount of energy kicking and screaming for even a small selection of girlie tees. Maybe if I wear this bad boy (or in this case, girl) in there, they'll understand why.
>Just curious, and a brief skim of your blog (and your above comment) indicates that you're not a shy, retiring wallflower.
Lol, no, I'm not - I'm sure Wil would love me to get off his blog with this stuff, though - so I will.
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
This is definitely a close second - Boobs + Dice = a good time to be had by all! ;-)
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
I adore that design; blending geekisms FTW. I also have to note how awesome it is that this shirt is available in girlie-tees, as that is still a bizarre rarity in most geek clothing (all I've ever wanted is Venom on my boobs!)
my design is available at shirt.woot!
So if you ever wanted to get a geeky shirt I designed for shirt.woot, now's your chance. I wanted to call it Critical Mass, because I thought that would be cool and work on a few geeky levels, but I think that idea fell through a hole in the 'tubes. I chose a d6 instead of a d10 because I thou...
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