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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Finally, after getting past the audio syncing problem with one of the clips, I have completed the videos and uploaded them to YouTube. Faces of British troops have been digitized.
MarsCon 2008 Part 1
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STb536Lot5Y]
MarsCon 2008 Part 2
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gva82d5ntww]
Enjoy
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
I've been trying to get my video from MarsCon 2008 and ran into a problem with one of the clips having the audio becoming progressively out of sync with the video. It turns out that the problem was caused by an occasional dropped frame in the video throwing the audio ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Arthur C. Clarke, author of many great SF novels and stories, including Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, has passed away in Sri Lanka.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
MarsCon 2008 took place over the Leap Year Weekend of February 29th through March 2nd at the Holiday Inn Select in Bloomington, MN. MarsCon is mid-sized event with an attendance of about 850, which is up a bit from last year, and does not include the spontaneous British Invasion ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is an interesting discourse on politics and revolution. Heinlein paints an interesting saga of a revolt on the moon against the Terran authorities who control all aspects of the lives of those living on the lunar colonies. It won the Hugo Award for Best ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
A Klingon Christmas Carol, produced by the Comedia Beauregard, with support from several members of the IKV Rakehell (Klingon Assault Group), was an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic into Klingon, and told from the Klingon point of view.
SQuja' (Scrooge), is a conniving money lender who has a bodyguard/strongman, QachIt ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
This year being the Centennial marking the birth of Robert A. Heinlein, a lot of renewed interest in his works has been sparked. While attending Convergence (this was opposite the Heinlein Centennial Celebration taking place in St. Louis) there was a discussion on his works and Starship Troopers was brought ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Commedia Beauregard was on Fox 9 News here in Minnesota with a preview of what is in store this Saturday for the Klingon Christmas Carol that several members o the IKV Rakehell had a hand in.
They've put in a lot of effort and it looks like it is going to ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Convergence 2007 was, once again, a convention that should not be missed. The Klingons of KAG were in full force with elements of the Cold Death Quadrant in attendance included the crews of the IKV Rakehell, IKV Black Thunder, and the IKV Warhammer.
The Rakehell arrived the day before the ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Like many longtime SF fans my age, I grew up on the writings of Robert A. Heinlein. Saturday marks the Centennial Anniversary of Heinlein's birth. A lot of people I know will be at one or another SF Convention (I'll be at convergence) taking place this weekend, including ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the premier of the movie Star Wars. It's hard to believe that it's been that long already.
Some six months prior to its release, I ran across the novelization by George Lucas (actually, it was written by Alan Dean Foster) in a bookstore, thought ...
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
This year is the Centennial of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein. As such, I have been going through a phase of reading and rereading a number of his works, so I thought I would share some of them with you.
Tunnel In The Sky is the story of survival ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
The IKV Rakehell hosted a “Day of Honor” celebration, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the original broadcast of the Star Trek episode “Errand of Mercy.” This is the first episode to feature the Klingon empire, with John Colicos as the first major Klingon, Kor, and Victor Lundin as Kor’s ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
MarsCon was well attended, despite the winter storms that hit the region on Thursday and Friday, with 675 people in attendance. Although down a bit from last year due to snows and bad driving conditions, the con was an overwhelming success.
The Rakehell was very well represented, with most of ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
MarsCon 2007 is off to a good start with lots of good panels guests and parties! After missing the first panels on Friday and Opening Ceremonies due to a luggage mishap, it was full party mode on the first evening of the con.
The IKV Rakehell has put on a ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
It was just a couple of weeks ago that I posted a piece on the passing of my friend Sally. Since that time I have dug up a few photos of her in her Klingon getup, from when I still lived in California.
Sally Field was known as qraS amongst ...
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
My wife told me the news when I got home tonight that an old friend in California, known to many in Bay Area Fandom as Auntie Sally, or in her Klingon persona, qraS, passed away last night. She died of cancer, which she had been battling for nearly the ...
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek. It was on September 8th, 1966, that Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise hit the air waves.
For 40 years, Star Trek has not only entertained us, but also inspired us, seeking careers in sciences as well ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Convergence 2006 kicked off with a blast and never slowed down. There were five ships from the Cold Death Quadrant, and Klingons came from points further to see Robert O'Reilly (Gowron) and J.G. Hertzler (Martok), this year's Guests of Honor. And they were well worth the effort to ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Now that I've spent a good chunk of the last couple of days playing with windows Movie Maker and have figured out how to include it on my website, I thought I should share the fruits of my labor.
During the run of BayCon, I indoctrinated one of the Klingons, Pete, ...
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