Archive for the ‘personal’ Category

Under Construction - New Site Launching Soon

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Pedro Construction - Excel Saga

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I have been hard at work building out a complete redesign of the decultured homepage. I am adding several new and useful features to the site, including a gallery system, a links mini-blog, and an events calendar.  These features should be finished soon, and once they are I will return to the blog to post some long over-due entries about the last few cons and events.  Please bear with me, and thank you for visiting my site!

Conquest: Story in a Bag

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

conquest_story_in_a_bag

While attending the Conquest KC science fiction and fantasy convention this year, I participated in the Story in a Bag contest.  For the contest, the conquest staff prepared a series of bags containing short sentences or words that had to be incorporated into a new, custom written story which the contestants had one hour to complete.  The best stories in each of three categories (science fiction, fantasy and horror) were judged within three skill levels (youth, adult amateur, and adult professional/published). 

Read more to find out the results.

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Back From a Busy Weekend

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Anime St. Louis Registration Line

I just got back from a crazy busy weekend trip. I left Friday with my two roommates to go to another friend’s wedding reception, which was very non-traditional and very fun. We left the wedding late Friday evening and drove 2/3 of the way to St. Louis where we stopped at Graham Cave State Park to camp for the night. We woke up at 7:45 in the morning and explored the park and the historic cave the park was named for, and then drove to St. Louis, stopping on the way at a trucker diner for an incredible breakfast. In St. Louis, we registered for Anime St. Louis/ShowMeCon, a combination anime and science fiction convention held at a Marriot hotel. The convention had over 1000 people in attendance and we spent the greater part of Saturday late into the night and sunday until about 3:00 at the convention. After leaving the convention, we traveled to a nearby park just outside St. Louis and played a round of Frisbee golf. On the trip back we stopped in Columbia, Mo. for dinner, and finally made it home.

Needless to say, I am exhausted, so I am about to get some much needed rest. I will be posting more in detail about the proceedings and loading an image gallery in the morning or when I have time.

My New Blog

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Welcome to my new blog. I will be updating this space periodically with anything I find interesting.

-Jeff