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if this really is www.bleedingcool.com/2011/08/20/geek-girl-on-the-street-r..., then I feel even more happy to have gotten the shot.
also, she saved my smart pop pin with her big stick.
My other passion in life other than food are all things geeky so when I had the chance to go to FanExpo 2019 I said hell yes! Check out my epic day:
My other passion in life other than food are all things geeky so when I had the chance to go to Fan Expo Canada 2019 I said hell yes! Check out my epic day:
The woman kneeling answered a question about Buffy. She got an autographed hat from the Queen of the Con, Jane Espenson.
things I learned from Jane Espenson at the con:
1. There are tractor pulls at the Riverside, Iowa Science Fiction conventions.
2. "I fell asleep at night writing Welcome Back Kotter episodes" -- on how she got into writing for television.
3.She sent 3 scripts into Star Trek: The Next Generation on spec. "They were all about Data." She got called into pitch. After a few sessions, they took her into a back room and showed her a white board with some commonly pitched episode ideas, with hash marks underneath for how often they got pitched each idea. All of her ideas that session were up there and all had at least 20 hashmarks
4. She pitched the idea that eventually became one of my favorite episodes, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Nature_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation). She got paid $1000 and got no story credit. She was delighted.
First part of my halloween pumpkin project. The pumpkin has been printed and the basic lighting is in place. Tonight I'll try to add an Adafruit IR distance sensor, a small amp and the Sparkfun MP3 playback. Hopefully I'll "scare the scarers" a little bit when this becomes interactive :)
The model was sliced with Kissclicer in just 3.5 minutes despite the model being 17 x 17 x 15 cm large. Printing the stem and lid took just 3 hours, but the main body of the pumpkin took 17 (!) hours, with 0.1mm layers and 25% infill. The original estimate in Kisslicer was 11 hours. I think there's room for improvement in that algorithm...
There's heaps of strings inside the model as I turned off retraction just to be sure the print didn't fail. Sort of gives it the look of a real pumpkin actually, but the main idea here is to make something that can be re-used year after year as a base for halloween projects with Arduino's and sensors.
The model is www.thingiverse.com/thing:31395 scaled to twice the size and adjusted a little.