If ye be wonderin’ why this site be lookin’ strange this day, wonder no further. It be Talk Like a Pirate Day. This day o’ pirate speak is brought to ye by the Text Filter Suite of Dougal Campbell. I might be recommendin’ ye set course for the sea shanty, Voyage of the Fyrefawkes, or […]
Found these next to each other at Costco the other day:
I mentioned that on Saturday, we left Comic-Con for a few hours to check out the ships at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. We saw five: The Star of India, billed as “the world’s oldest active ship” The HMS Surprise, a replica of an 18th century British ship. The Berkeley, an 1898 steam ferry […]
Comic-Con was fun, but exhausting. Add that to staying up too late last night and not being used to the heat when we got back…
Have you noticed that media acts like EVERYONE at Comic-Con is in costume? TV shows actually recruit extra cosplayers to stand in the background.
Neither of us spent more than an hour or so on the floor on Saturday, in part out of self-defense. Comic-Con is usually the most crowded on Saturdays, though we didn’t see much difference from Friday this year. After the Flash panel, I went back to my back issue hunt. Found quite a few in […]
We found this in the gift shop when we went to the Pirates dinner show back in May. IIRC, it’s a toy/prop musket. But who comes up with these names? I mean, “Party Weapon?” By actually calling it a weapon, you’re suggesting it’s something I don’t want at a kid’s party. Well, unless I’m raising […]
