D*Con 09 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good:
– Seeing our San Francisco friends is always a pleasure and always motivating. We WILL move closer as soon as we can. :-)
– Cute girls in costumes.
– Running around with the Barbarian Horde.
– Meeting the best Ohura EVAR! Hey, Courtney!!
– Getting my B5 poster finished! Boxleitner, Scoggins and Furst FTW!
– The best Miss Klingon Pageant in YEARS!
– Seeing the Shatner/Nimoy panel – even if it was remotely. They need to do this for ALL the MAIN panels next year – face it, the venues are TOO SMALL.
– And the best GOOD of all! I present Pussy in the Wild:

Pussy in the Wild
Pussy in the Wild!

The Bad:
– Only getting into 2 panels due to overcrowding.
– Missing Adam Savage completely.
– Getting only a glimpse of Mary McDonnell.
– Never seeing Shatner, Nimoy OR Stewart in person at all. Where did they keep them?
– Sore feet and the ever present chafing. Gah!
– Nick didn’t feel well for most of the con.

The Ugly:
– SEC fans being the Philistines that they are. Stormy got hit with an EGG (wtf?) and there were numerous reports of horrible behaviour by Va Tech fans. Those buttfuckers should stay home with their wife/aunt/cousin. Clearly they don’t know how to act.
– D*Con once again stuns with complete inability to plan for or alleviate long lines – esp at registration. 2 hrs 45 mins of my life wasted in line for a fucking badge. I wish that old lady in charge of the registration would die already so someone with some sense could get technology in there. Just damn.
– Having my art from Ted stolen from the 22nd floor lobby. I hope whoever took it dies in a fire. Fucking asshole.
– Once again getting flamed for posting on the DCon LJ about the stolen art because I DARED to imply that someone from the con would steal. I said STOLEN art and that I’d PROSECUTE if I find the art on eBay. Which I WILL. Stolen means that someone did not turn it in to Lost/Found. If it wasn’t turned in, it was stolen. Pretty simple. DragonCon can suck it and so can the LJ clique that feels EVERYONE needs a good flame – especially when they are upset and posting about a missing item. I hope they are treated just as shitty if they ever lose something or have a theft. I detest the Dragoncon LJ and have no idea why I ever thought that posting there would be a good idea. They suck and did I mention they can all die in a fire?
– Realising that the Con crowd is just as rude and snarky as the SEC crowd – but not brave enough to do it in person. The nerds are more of the passive aggressive type that would rather flame you in a forum. They only help when it suits them.

Moving on!

So, I’ve heard from 3 of the 4 web clients about the hosting and all that. Surprisingly, the ones I figured I’d have to hunt down got in touch with me first! The metal stamp guy is good to go, I’m moving him to GoDaddy (gods, their CP is SHITE). Once he’s moved and I’ve tweaked his site just a bit, I’m outta there. The insulation guy called me a few minutes ago and he’s going to need a bit of help with his stuff, but that’s fine. He’s doing the same thing we are, changing his company name and putting up a new site and I’ll be doing all that for him. The gallery folks have not contacted me yet, and I doubt there’ll be much drama there. They’ll probably move to GoDaddy since they manage their domain there already.

Speaking of domain management, another client uses Network Solutions for their domain just because they always have. I logged in to change the DNS info and had to laugh at this stupid splash screen:
Because you can't TM "website". :-/

Just like the suits at SciFi, I love people who just aren’t comfortable unless they have a â„¢ next to the name. And I’m sure people wrote them saying “Yanno, I just can’t deal with this ‘website’ term! Could you come up with something really stupid and trademarked so I can remember it better?” Riiiight. SciFi changed to Siffy (SyFy) so they could â„¢ the name. Well, apparently the suits at Network Solutions feel that calling a website a “website” just wouldn’t do since it couldn’t be trademarked. STUPID. Which is why I don’t recommend using Network Solutions. They’ve been caught taking domains from people to sell to corporations and they are basically a bunch of SUITS who are not the least bit techie and therefore have no sense of what’s OK and what’s not. I’ll betcha they all have secretaries who print out their emails for them every morning…

I’m pleased with the progress I’m making toward becoming IndigoDragon Studios and I’m happy with how the clients are handling the transition. I hope everything keeps going smoothly!

Now: on to Friday!!

And this guy calls ME crazy?

Update: Oh, looky, here’s the fat fuck’s FB! http://www.facebook.com/ryan.h.nixon How he got a semi-hot wife I’ll never know. [8.12.12] UPDATE January 2021: that is still his FB profile. To no one’s surprise, he’s a T**** supporter and all round racist, misogynistic nutbag. LOL I see he’s also taken his RABID fanboydom and started selling SG-1 merch (there is a link to his shop from his FB). Wow, he is not only the most important person ever enlisted in the Navy, but he’s also the PREMIER SG-1 costumer and action star of the WORLD! Wowee! Man. This guy is pretty delusional. He’s also BFFs with the whole SG-1 cast – LOOK! He’s got signed photos!!! Wow.

Original story:
Ok, I put up a few LJ posts to get rid of the stupid tac vests. This crazed fanboy immediately sends me nasty rude emails about how stupid I am because these vests don’t have the buckles and they are worthless, etc etc. So I send him an email telling him that not everyone is a rabid costumer and he’s just a bully and he really should just STFU.

Well, today, I get a threatening email from him (below) which I thought I’d best post JUST IN CASE this psychopath stalks me and I have to shoot him. If anything happens to me, my boi, my pets or my property, this loser is the first place to start with suspects, ok?

This guy is the prime example of why I detest “career” military folk in general. He thinks it’s perfectly fine to threaten me because he’s in the military and I’m just a stupid civilian. Well, here ya go, folks, a fine example of what’s wrong with the military (bold mine):

From: Jumper2Pilot@aol.com
Date: August 14, 2009 1:15:06 AM EDT

OMG you are mental woman! I left home at 18 and no I do not live with my mother! I am 37 years old, married and have a life! I am career military and have been serving my country for 19 years so psychos like you can talk smack as part of your freedoms of life!

Get off your horse and get clue, you know nothing about me and if you did you wouldn’t be talking that way to me you prob be very careful what came out your mouth!

Ya I get emails from ebay on EVERY Blackhawk vest posted! Saw your ebay id indigodragon-auctions, I should buy them and resell them just to piss you off even more!

Fanboy huh.. I work on million dollar F-18 hornets EVERYDAY blowing your tax dollars on jet fuel… Go take off your corset that’s too to tight or throw on your troll costume because you seriously have issues, nah you have a SUBSCRIPTION! 
 
Take my advice and don’t piss me off!!! Hell next time a Decatur police officer pulls you over, you might have to wonder if he was a Selected Reserve that worked for me for 4 years when I ran the entire 800 Division in ATLANTA!

Oh, yah, I’m SO glad that losers like this work for me. What he fails to see is that I PAY FOR HIS SORRY ASS.

So, if I’m abducted or attacked, please use the email above and this convenient pic to track down my stalker:
Mr Ryan "Stitch" Nixon, stalker

Oh, and he’s a rabid fanboy here: http://www.scifihero.net

And his FB is here: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.h.nixon

There, that should cover any bullshit that happens in the future. Military threats against a civilian is probably not considered proper protocol. I hope someone above him sees this and takes care of it. This is crazy psycho email. HE better hope that HE doesn’t get caught for threatening civilians.

Singin’ in the Bathtub!

This song was sung often by Tweety Bird and I think of it every time I see a bird in the birdbath. It was used in the first Looney Tunes short “Singin’ in the Bathtub” in 1930 and was used in 21 shorts. It makes me happy. Enjoy!

Singing In The Bathtub

I’m singing in the bathtub
Happy once again
Watching all my troubles
Go swimming down the drain

Singing through the soap suds
Life is full of hope
You can sing with feeling
While feeling for the soap

Oh! A ring around the bathtub
It isn’t so nice to see
But a ring around the bathtub
Is a rainbow to me

Reaching for a towel
Ready for a rub
Everybody’s happy
While singing in the tub

Big weekend

We’ve had quite the weekend so far – it’s not over for us today since it’s Nick’s Monday off week. Yay!

Friday Nick made me some yummy pork loin for dinner and we mostly just chilled out. Yesterday we braved the Farmer’s Market (and made it out unscathed!!) then went out to an art opening at Youngblood and the sKill Jill benefit at Lenny’s. The opening was OK – the artist is a tattoo artist and that’s what the art looked like: flash art. Lenny’s was fun, but not very many made it out to the benefit, sadly. Kate met us there and we hung out and drank beer/shots until after midnight. How our tab was $15, I’ll never know, but I’ll take it! LOL Kate came back here with us and we stayed up until about 3am talking.

We slept in a bit today, of course, then Nick fixed the leaky bathroom drain (which naturally required a trip to Home Despot) and I started working on Ted’s site. OMG. What a clusterfuck. We have reinstalled Gallery and I *think* it’s running OK, but the WordPress template he is using sucks out loud. He’s trying to use graphics with the sidebar, which means we can’t use widgets (afaik, widgets can’t have header graphics) and the Gallery plugin is blowing up spectacularly. Without widgets, what’s the point of a WP template? We’re still picking at the php, trying to hack it, but we are NOT programmers and frankly, I’ve got other things to do besides sit and try to reprogram a WP template. Hopefully Ted will give up his header graphics without much fuss – hell, this gig looks like it’s gonna be a bitch anyway with Gallery simply REFUSING to cooperate. ::sigh::

We’ll be at the Decatur Drink and Draw at Mellow Mushroom tomorrow – hope to see you there! Don’t forget Atlanta Cartoonists is next Monday (Aug 10) at Manuel’s Tavern, 7pm.