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Playing Mermaid in Snow


When the local pond is frozen over, read a book instead! lol snow, yay playing mermaids!


Today, it wasn’t DNS, it was DHCP and me being too quick on plugging back in the device when pings timed out. Had I waited another five seconds, I’da seen the other device start responding. Grrr.


Porta-Mermaid


I had an opportunity to spend a whole long evening as a mermaid, hanging with a diverse group of weirdos, outside in the drizzle, pretending to be extroverted. My real fear was being mermaid-mode for so long, knowing that my normal silicone fluke can lead to foot cramps after an hour, so I made a dry-fluke out of thick EVA foam.

My silicone fluke, a Mertailor Three, weighs like 25 pounds, but the EVA foam cut-out is like just one, which met my requirements for being super easy to flip my fins all night long.

I used hot glue to attach a second layer that I figured would help stability, provide a thickness for my ankles, and give my toes something to push against as a lever to better flip the fin.

Using EVA Foam as the fluke worked nicely: I was able to focus on playing chatty with the other attendees and just put "flipping my fin" into a background process, since a little flexing of my toes was enough to make a big tail wave. The light-weight fluke allowed me to express myself easily when I wanted to convey mermaid excitement and whip my tail around joyfully.

I think I'd like to try and reduce how much my heels kinda fell through the EVA foam foot-holes, like hot-glue straps on the bottom, so I won't have to rely upon the fabric of the tail skin to keep tension.


Playing Mercy


Best day of the year, yay Halloween!


Award winning gig!


Celebrated the casino’s entertainment venue award win with a buncha my fave bands and buds, like Radio 80, Monster Road, Rumor 6, and Harmonious Funk. Yay gigs!

vimeo.com/1016340697


Just do something with that stuff


Slapped an ancient LoL Shield onto an old Arduino, printed a diffuser, smashed into a funky old photo frame, and now it plays Conway’s Game of Life forever. Yay, did something with all the stuff in my parts buckets!

#arduino #leds


Hax


Packeted the network with four multicast UDP streams of television content, and got ‘em to show up in netcat and ffmpeg. Pretty fun!

#multicast #udp


Metallica!


Metallica concert outfit; I’m hella metal af.


#metallica #concertfit #lolmetal #oldaf #loud


I added my personal Friendica box!


Lul


Aww, Lego-minifig cooler-me has blue hearing aids. I should try decorating mine.


Electronics are weird


After replacing this fuse a compile times, I’ve given up and now this lighting fixture is a smoke machine.


I am the mermaid, the mermaid is me


The pirate shirt is far more the costume than the tail, the mermaid half is so natural and fun.

Photo Credit: @lindseyschifferl
Crown: @kittiestrinketsandtreasures
Jewelry: @blackrunecreations
#mermaid #mermaidtail #mermaidlife #reallifemermaid


Selfie Saturday


Posing next to the killer volcano.

#selfie #workselfie


Cat jpeg!


The internet is for cat pictures:


My perfect dumb murderers relaxing on a summer afternoon.

#cats #catpictures

#cats


First Post!


I miss LiveJournal, LittleLogs, and Twitter. So this is my attempt to do dumb web logs, status updates, and achievements.

I like being a mermaid, playing Overwatch, and computars.