…it’s a reference to a song by Cream
Here is Tuesday’s Doclopedia post, late, but still on Tuesday.
The Doclopedia #216
Tiny Folk: Zini Googler
Zini has always been fascinated by the high tech gadgets of the Giant Folk. At first, her fellow Zoo Dweller Clan members thought she was a bit daft, but nowadays they hold her in high regard. You see, Zini is plugged into the Net.
About 3 years ago, Zini and some friends managed to “acquire” a top of the line laptop computer. With a bit of work (and a “borrowed” corporate credit card), Zini was soon online and accessing all sorts of entertaining and informative websites. True, she has to use “push poles” to work the keyboard…and sometimes drafts her boyfriend into helping push keys…but she has become an invaluable part of her clan.
Over the years, Zini has amassed tons of software and peripherals. She is also active on several discussion boards and keeps a blog. Recently, she has discovered a secret website founded by another high tech loving Tiny Person. In fact, there are nearly 50 Tiny Folk worldwide who are online and posting to the site!
Zini’s current project has been to adapt a Blackberry keypad to interface with her laptop, thus making life way easier for her. See, she got the information on how to do it from a website…
AFTER THE CHANGE CAME
A Day For Getting Things Ready And Making Con Plans
Since I’ll be very short on time for anything but running around getting things ready for our out of town guest arrivals tomorrow (one of whom, Avis, is here already to help out, what with “travel time” being pretty much meaningless to her) and the big barbecue bash on Saturday, this will be a short post. Mmmm…barbecue…pig in the ground tomorrow night, baby!
Anyway, I have a few minutes for answering email (which I am days behind on) and making a couple of notes here…
1: Sin has found a bunch of my old web postings from just after the Change, so I’ll be putting them up on here from time to time. Looks like they are mostly from the day before Change Day up to a couple of days after Halloween, 1999.
2: Grace and I have our con schedule laid out and it looks like this…
SacCon (Sacramento): I’ll be there straight through from Saturday morning through Monday afternoon, plus the Friday Night Pre-Con party. Grace will be there from Sunday morning on.
Denver Gamefest (Denver, Colorado): The whole family (Grace, Lily, Roscoe & I) will be there.
QuestCon (San Francisco, California): Roscoe & I will be there.
Kaiju Con (Tokyo, Japan): (The whole family, plus several friends)
Origins (Baltimore, Maryland): (The whole family, plus Joneses)
ArcataCon (Arcata, California): (Just me)
AdventureCon 10 (Cork, Ireland): (The whole family, plus friends)
WebCon7 (London, England): (I’ll be at the live portion in London and Roscoe will be at the live gig in San Francisco, but we’ll both be connected to the estimated 3 MILLION attendees worldwide via the internet and Dream Draught)
GenCon (Milwaukee, Wisconsin): (The whole family at the bestest con EVER!)
WorldCon (Seattle, Washington): (The whole family, though Grace will be leaving on Saturday afternoon on Green Lady business)
Games Weekend (Austin, Texas): (Grace & I, plus several other Hobart alumni. This is the annual school gaming con.)
SacCon 2 (Sacramento, California): (The whole family, plus friends. After this one, I sleep for about a week.)
WHEW! Whole lotta conning & traveling there.
A Day For Partying!
It’s all about the friends, family and party time here at Casa Cross today. We have about a dozen friends visiting, plus my parents, my gnomish brothers & sisters, my brother Kelly, my cousin Wendy (who is a witch), my niece Molly, assorted aunts & uncles and a lot of other folks.
The pig won’t be coming out of the barbecue pit for a couple more hours, so everyone is just hanging out. Dad, Uncles Carl & Robert and a few other folks brought musical instruments and we are being serenaded with country & western, blues and rockabilly music.
Annie & Ben are preparing a lavish spread to accompany the pig. They have the day off tomorrow, even though house elves hate taking days off. They’ll be at the big House Elf Hoedown over at Clear Lake.
From where I sit, I can see Grace, Wendy and a couple of other women talking about medicinal herbs…Spike Y Jones, Roscoe, Peter Hildreth and our neighbors Linda & Shanira discussing recent world events…Kelly (who is a zebra striped centaur) giving rides to squealing masses of children…Mary Jones, my Aunt Amy, Holly Hildreth, my mom and Lily all commenting on the music…and many others doing everything from dancing to playing boardgames to just sitting back with a cold beverage.
Tomorrow, all of our visitors will join Grace and I on the train to Mendocino. After a day and night there, we’ll take another train down to San Francisco for a couple of days, then back here by Thursday afternoon.
And now Miranda Jones has asked me to dance with her, so I’m outta here.
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