Hey all, I talked to a LOT of you at Musecon, or near Musecon or around Musecon etc about running a program, or volunteering in other ways to help the programming team at the con. If you are interested in running a program, teaching a class, or volunteering in any way with the programming team, please drop me a line (musecon@alyse.org) or go fill out our Programming Questionaire (http://t.co/4cxS9UEx) (nifty online form). Look forward to the awesome year of programs we are all going to put together! I know it seems early early early, but because of the kinds of programming [...]
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Nov 222011
So some of you might have heard of MuseCon, or even went last year. For those of you who haven’t – its a fabulous little con that is just getting started (we’re heading into our 2nd year). It is a convention focused on enhancing and encouraging creativity in as many forms as the hotel and our family-friendly policy will allow . As we are so new, we are run very much on a volunteer basis and are looking for people who might be interested in sharing a bit of their knowledge, skill or creativity by running a program. We are looking [...]
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Aug 192011
Working out still happening, but not at a frequency that makes me happy, so I switched my work schedule to 7am-3ish and will be trying to work out in the afternoon after work. This week that got me to the club 3 days in a row. YAY! Now I have to switch up my workout routine so that it can handle consecutive days of workouts. I’ll be going from a less focused workout plan where I was doing sort of an all body thing with rest days in between to an all upper body for one day, and lower body/core [...]
Aug 092010
This is blinkie number two. I was a blinkie newbie this weekend. By the end I was a total convert. To be clear, for the folks not familiar with the blinkie panel, I made that. I purchased a kit with all the parts, and with the equipment provided, learned how to assemble and solder it together.
So there is this new con … some of you may have heard of it. It is called MuseCon, billed a “A new convention in northeastern Illinois celebrating music and the hands-on arts”. I think these folks have a really cool idea for a con and this year is its inaugural year – its beta test so to speak. They have a bunch of cool things scheduled, there is a robust Filk schedule and their programming page lists,Knitting, Crochet/Amigurumi, Beginning soldering, Blinkies, Polymer Clay, Photoshop, Papercraft, and Photography. (and I am pretty sure that isn’t the full list of programs [...]
