Join us for a Steampunk Tea Party at our house on New Years Eve.

All the fine china, hot tea and baked goods (and finger sandwiches!) you can manage and some steampunk parlor games or readings or storytelling or crafts and so on to occupy us until Midnight and beyond.

We live in San Jose, so guests would need to make their way to the South Bay, but we could probably manage some crash space. We also have two indoor cats who are super friendly but shed.

What to Bring:

• Yourself
• Wayward Friends and Family
• Any Small Children you belong to
• Something stylish And Steampunky to wear
• A Tea Cup
• An iPod of music you enjoy
• Party games you like to play (hey, we can even keep it Historical! Wink anyone?)
• Any celebratory streamers/horns/hats/etc you have hanging around (or kidnap from Target, hehe),
• A plate of your favorite finger sandwiches or other savories and an appetite for tea and cake.

We'll privide tea (Black, Green, White, Chai, Roobios, Herbal, Oolong, you name it... its in the Tea Cupboard) and china teapots, the cups and saucers we have and enough baked goods to sink Amsterdam.

When: 8pm, December 31st (7pm if you want to help decorate)

Where: Our house in San Jose, CA

RSVP Much Appreciated. Last minute attendees, Please don't hesitate to Join us!

As Always, everyone is welcome!

All the info HERE.

Get that special someone or Steampunk friend their very own airship! Have the dirigible name customized and add their photo for well tailored gift.

Basic info behind the cut. Go to my LJ for a full list of information, contact addresses and details.

( Airship Prints )

I'm at home because I had an orthodontist appointment and now it's Academic Lab, so really there's no need for me to go back to school just yet.

I got an email back from AUB.

( Oi vay )

I'm pretty sure the rank that was sent is the cumulative rank compiled from all of my semesters in high school. I don't know if that's what she means when she asks if it "passes on" to year 10 and 11. I'm going to go talk to Ms. Gatti in guidance later today and ask if they keep a record of what my rank was in other years. ... *sigh* Es muy complicado. But hey, I'm communicating with the Assistant Director of Admissions. This means I'm reminding them of my existence, and this is a good thing. :)

But I must be considered through early admission. If I go regular admission I will be notified "by late April." I will NOT wait that long, AUB. You are telling me by late January. Kthx.

Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television program
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad


The sign says "The beach is yours--protect it."

I love the sea. I love the Mediterranean. I live in the Midwest, so I never, ever get to see the sea.
This was just salt in the wounds. They couldn't even leave the sea untouched.
Because that power-plant was totally full of weapons, right? Whatever.

( the rest )

ETA: I went down and talked to guidance about AUB wanting those rankings, and my counselor decided he would try to figure them, but he "might have to say it's an estimate," because our school doesn't keep track of our past rankings. Both he and Ms. Gatti, the college counselor I was also talking to, were really helpful about it. :) They also both know me by name now.

New to this community, and all agog at the beautiful work being done here! Not sure if it's a breach of protocol to just jump in like this, please let me know if I'm being presumptuous.!

I wanted to pass along some links for the more... well-endowed among us. Eshakti has some nice Victorian-esque pieces and they're not very pricey. They also let you customize details like sleeve length and neckline in most pieces. Examples:


www.eshakti.com/clothpdpage.asp


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Hope this is useful to somebody!

Do any of you know what HEXRPG is?

Well, if you don't, it's a Harry Potter Role-Playing site.

I logged in today (for the first time in forever) to get my daily money and THIS AD IS STARING AT ME RIGHT IN THE FACE.



FAILTASTIC MUCH. D=

who doesn't want to give up style in favour for protection.

-or-

( you always wear such nice suits... )

I made it using the Elizabethan Bumroll tutorial and an old pair of jeans that no longer fit. It was very easy to do and it didn't kill the machine!!! :D
( Pardon the mess )

There was a picture posted on secretbooth today, and the comments are interesting. It's relevant.

(Is anyone here on Dailybooth?)

I have nothing against Lady Gaga, but I just wanted to say that why hasn't anyone done this for novels? In particular Twilight and how incredibly unhealthy it is? I don't like sourcing online news even if it is Skynews because online journalists can be sloppy with their sources but I just wanted to make the point that I'd like to see more vocal responses in the media about the negative effects of Twilight rather than just bringing it up every 20 seconds just to get their ratings/sales up

http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=401503

I had the opportunity to interview Bruno Accioly, the co-founder of SteamPunk Conselho, the steampunk social network down in Brazil, and during our conversation, he highlighted some great examples of Brazilian Steampunk. Below are a sample of pictures of various events which I thought I'd share here.

( Click for more pics! )

Is there any interest in making a coordinated Steamy presence in this seasonal fest?
http://www.victorianstroll.com/

I'm going anyhow, but if there's at least a handful more Aethronauts and Chrononauts inclined, I'd be interested in formenting certain doom a memorable appearance in the town square.

Let me know?
Cluegirl

Please note that this is from Justine Larbalestier's blog, I just posted it here for convenience.

( Paranormal/Fantasy YA bingo )

What do you get when you morph Edward and Bella together? :)

( THIS is how Nessie should like when she grows up... )

Could the reason for Edward being so tempted to drink Bella's blood be due to her blood type?

Is there a certain blood type that vampires are more likely to be tempted with? Or is all blood equal to them?

For example: If blood type O is the strongest/beneficial of all bloods (which I'm not sure if it is or not,) then people with this type of blood are more prone to vampire attacks.

What do you think?

I happened upon this article and had to share it with my fellow steampunkers.
Surprisingly our generation is not the first to have 'usernames, go into off topic rants, or have a preoccupation with eating pig parts.'

I present to you the victorian version of the internet forum.

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/the-way-we-ate-the-great-scrapple-correspondence-of-1872/?hp



(Dear Mods, Sorry if I just wasted your time.)

Howdy, fellow Steamers and fans of Steampunk/Dieselpunk and alternate era England. I've a quick question. Since I'm a collector of fine and rare brews, ales, and teas. I'm wondering how many people are interested if I do a few reviews here for those items and post them as well as those who sample the same items.

My first choice list of items to review are of course English/Irish/Scotch Teas (Earl Gray and similar) and its history.

As well as various ales and other beverages both alcoholic and non-alcohol for those who wish to add another items for Steam related events.

Please feel free to let me know if I should persue this for fellow Steamers to enjoy.

Ian, James and I were very excited and pleased to be contacted by the BBC to do a quick interview on Steampunk for their technology programme. I was afraid how they would make us come across but I think its not turned out too bad at all.
Taking part are;
Ian Crichton aka Herr Doctor.
James Richardson Brown aka James Sydian.
Amanda Scrivener aka Professor Maelstromme representing Brute Force Studios and Professor Maelstromme's Steam Laboratory. Corset the presenter is wearing http://www.bruteforcestudios.com
Please follow the links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8376028.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8383183.stm

Now, as the host of Anti-Twilight Radio I get about an e-mail every other day. Most are "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!" e-mails which are nice. But some just plain break my stupid meter.

------

( Chatspeak, recycled excuses, and e-mailing from their work account await! )

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,