I was going though some old stuff and came across an AIM conversation I had with a member of “Salty the Pocket Knife” — A band that has Screech (aka Dustin Diamond) in it.

Sure, I’m lame, I like Saved by the Bell — but ya’ know what?

Crash and burn motherfucker. Enjoy. (for those of you that don’t know — I’m Freehaiti)

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This just in: Proto-Con 2005 — Monstrous Success!

If you weren’t fortunate enough to attend this year’s Proto-Con, then you’d better bust out your calendar and start planning to attend the next one! To tide you over till then, here’s a quick run-down of the major events, incidents and adventures.

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The rest of the pictures are up.

Check it out.

Here’s some pictures from Proto-Con 1.0. I think some of Brian’s ant pictures are in here too.

Gallery here.

In coming up with the itinerary I tried to accommodate everyones’ requests and suggestions as best as I could. See you in a week.

Official Itinerary: Proto-Con 1.0 October 21st to 23rd, 2005

Friday Night

6-7 PM          Arrivals and Proto-Bag Handout
7:30-8 PM       Keynote Address
8:30-12 PM      Star Frontiers: Session 1

Saturday

8-9 AM          Breakfast: The Tea, Juice and Fruit Morning Mixer
9-10:00 AM      A Chat Amongst Friends  
10:00-1 PM      Project: Shooting Proto-Con's 2006 Promo-Video (i.e., next             
                year's).  The video will make use of cardboard animatronics 
                and/or sculpted beasties.
1-2 PM          Lunch: Make it yourself
2-3:30 PM       Creative Canned Biscuit Cook-Off Contest
3:30-4 PM       Photos (Costume and Group)
4-5 PM          Intense Discussion/Heated Debate: Extemporaneous plot and     
                character creation collaborative brainstorm
5-6 PM          Dinner: Tim's Goulash
6-10 PM         Star Frontiers: Conclusion
10-12 AM        Movie (TBA) catered with generic snacks and one variety of   
                strange alcoholic beverage (TBA)
12-? AM         Late-Nite Thom-foolery (may include, but not limited to):
                *  Snipe hunt (sniping bags will be provided but bring your own 
                   stick)
                *  The Nightwalkers - a bunch of fools walk home along a country     
                   road in the dark enjoying the sights, sounds, and smells of 
                   the night and almost getting themselves killed as they fall 
                   into ditches, get hit by cars, and such.


Sunday

8-9 AM          Breakfast: Megan will arrive at 8 AM and cook EVERYONE French  
                toast and then go home.
9-10 AM         Excelsior - Where is Protozoic going from here?  What does the             
                future hold for CoT, Ameviathan, Ant Farming, Chook, Famouse the 
                Mouse, Odin 2000, Phos Rocks and other thriving/dead projects?
10-12 AM        Project: Penning of the Proto-Con Ballad
12-1 PM         Sandwiches for the Road and Awards
                Awards will include:
                1) Creative Canned Biscuit Cook-Off Award
                2) Costume Award
                3) Intense Dissussion Award
                4) Roleplaying Award (i.e., who won the Star Frontiers game,     
                the GM or the Players)
1 PM            Goodbye Speech: "Safe Sailing Dear Friends & Associates" (To be          
                given by Thom Webb, even if he's already left on Saturday)

Note: The dealer table will be supplied by Thom Webb.
                

Long time, no see. I’ve got a couple of things that I’ve been meaning to post, but you know how it goes. Anyway, Mike was bugging me to put some pictures up, so here’s one from China. This is from a street market.

Points of interest:

• crate full of bunny rabbits
• crate full of “meal beetles” or whatever you call the beetles that meal worms turn into
• crate full of multicolored bugs
• most importantly, crate full of dyed baby chickens

I’m not sure what is appealing about a green chick, but there it is. I didn’t ask for the price of any of these, but I’m sure it was dirt cheap.

This is storyboard number 44. It looks grainy because it was drawn in very light pencil and Tim had to bump the levels way up to get it to show.

First off, I don’t think anyone noted the 1-year anniversary for Protozoic. I guess that’s what the Proto-Con is about, but I don’t even know exactly when this site was put up so I can’t tell.

Due to some traveling and such I let the ant news go. Here are the results.

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I am proud to announce that we will be holding the first ever annual Protozoic Convention, Proto-Con, from Friday October 21st to Sunday the 23rd. Though the kinks in the event itinerary still have to be ironed out, I can say that there will be panel discussions, guest speakers, socials, cosplay and a session of TSR’s Star Frontiers (with modified rules). There is even a rumor that all attendees will get “gift bags” full of freebies.

If you are casual reader of the Protozoic website and are not on one of our many mailing lists, feel free to mail me or anyone here for more information about attending.

In the meantime, everybody else be sure to stay tuned for more information on the big weekend.

Last night was our weekly D&D game again. Only this week it was possibly one of the most exciting sessions I’ve ever had for a character… ever. I know it’s not “real life” but I feel like bragging about my virtual/storytelling experience anyway. And since I’ve been taking a sabatical from RPG.net forum postings you guys get to be bored with the tale of how it went in that forum’s stead.

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