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There currently is a tempest in a teapot about the sale of real fur at furry conventions.

To sum it up, a few people have become vocal about a long time dealer at west coast conventions selling real fur tails and pelts. The dealer in question, Cal Cotton, obtains these from humane sources and is a furrier for movie productions as well.

I personally do not see any need for myself to buy any such items, I also dont particular like people wearing real tails for mostly astetic reason, I also dont see why we should impose our views on others and demand other bend to our whims. Im sure theres some of us who believe that we shouldint eat meat, despite that being the nature of our being, but do we see them trying to impose their will on the rest of us? Mostly no.

I really do not like any vocal group trying to impose their will on the rest of us in a way that restricts our freedoms to do things otherwise legal and just. That is why I have never supported banning any particular thing or person from any convention just because their percieved as bad, I have to see actual proof that such a thing is bad, thats why I have always lobbied for the least restrictive polices needed to achieve the desired effect.

PS: Damn people are easily squicked.

Im still alive, working on a few things...

- Rainfurrest: Been working on the wiki and some other stuffs, mostly policies and that kind of thing.

- Radio: Went to Trapa's ham radio lesson and saw some people really interesting, next meeting is a hands on event at the Field Day station for one of the clubs in Coquitlam. Otherwise, Ive been trying to fix my Marconi 2955, it wont stay powered on longer than a little bit and Im kinda getting frustrated with the lack of anything wrong with it. Im also working on getting some Project 25 gear.

- LDAP and moving to OpenSuSE 11.1: Mostly complete, down to a science now.

- Asterisk: Just got started on this, have the Cisco phones connected (using custom DHCP setup and a TFTP server) and dialing each other as well as out, but I dont have incoming dialing rules working yet. Theres some talk of using Asterisk as a proof of concept at RainFurrest in Operations and Registration.

So, Update:

Sakuracon was okay, promotion for Rainfurrest did not go as well as expected, but now I have a pawstar fox hat.

Harris Corp, known for the does everything Unity XG-100 multi-band multi-system radio has announced that their aquiring M/A-Comm Wireless Systems makers of the EDACS and OpenSky trunking systems, as well as the Orion radios that I have a few of.... this means that the Orion has been preceeded by the following brands... GE, Ericsson, CommNet, M/A-Comm and Tyco... and now Harris.

It seems to be the season for mergers in the radio industry, previously Motorola aquired most of Yaesu Co. Ltd. aka Vertex Standard, a major player in the small and rugged radio market, which Im sure Motorola wanted for the small part, since Motorola seems to have seriousl problems with making anything both small and rugged... Yaesu is also a major player in the Amateur Radio market I won a few of their ham radios.

This all hasn't affected my radio purchasing habits, Im still buying into the Orions, still buying Motorola stuff and still want a Vertex Standard VX-8r.

The latest trend with furry paysites is a but perplexing.

Do we really think that furries have enough money to pay 4 or 5 aritsts something like $15 a month?

Really, its porn, maybe $10 a month for a huge site, but somehow I dont think this trend will really stick together.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae

( For The Fallen... )

HEhehe...

I typed this entry with an Apple Wireless Keyboard (the old white and clear plastic version*) paired to a Windows XP machine with a CSR BlueCore2 adapter.

Yay for Bluetooth!

I typed this sentence from the bathroom!**

* Design based on the Snow White Design Language.
** 40 feet away.

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In lieu of a more detailed post I have to say RainFurrest went well and it was fun.

But, Ive been busy and stressed since then and haven't managed to post here about it.

Sorry y'all.

WTF is this in my whois results?

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You would think a business would want to avoid pissing off its customers... apparently not Alvarion, I still get marketing email from them despite unsubscribing soo many times.

So, seattle.gov is so intent on promoting Mayor Nickels that I when I got to the City Light page, I have a real hard time guessing what link to follow to pay my bill... previously the link was right there, but has been displaced by some mayoral promotion spiel.

Update!

Im working for a bluetooth testing company that does consulting for Microsoft as well as working directly for Microsoft as a vendor (same staffing company).

Im now in charge of convention operations at RainFurrest I really hope alot of you come!

New photo sets on Flickr:
Active Fennec Fox Pics
Bellfurs furmeet 19th July 2008
SeaWorld California - 14 May 2008
Califur 2008
Disneyland - 19 May 2008

"In my personal opinion, I don't think these airplanes would make very good boats." -- Pilot talking about the Airbus A330.

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I was watching Fox News on Friday, when the Attorney General announced that using BitTorrent puts money into Osama Bin Ladens coffers, at which point, I shot the television with my Magnum revolver and went back to muttering about large reptiles.

Ok, it didn't happen exactly like that, but you get the picture.

So, the building manager has decided to increase the costs for the laundry in the building... now its $1.25 to do laundry in a room that rains often and has only partial service (two of the four dryers are broken, sometimes the washing machines dont work), up from $1... because of maintenance costs, water, electricity... by the way, the cost of the last two didint rise, but dropped.

17 NICs baby!

Brought to you by four NC3134 cards with the NC3135 expansion boards on them.

pictures on Flickr

Some ranty before substantial stuff.

Copyright:

Its copyrighted by not to. And by the way, you trademark a slogan or somesuch, not copyright it.

Metro:

What the fuck? Cant we have busses on time these days? Can we even have the right kind of busses, like where the hell do you get the idea that a 40 foot metro bus is okay to use on a route that packs a 60 foot Sound Transit bus? Can we have our bus passes mailed to us on time, not a week after the 1st... get with the program.

There is something horribly ironic about my dinner: Bulgogi while watching M*A*S*H.