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Dark Sailor Mercury – Cosplay

Kali — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:39:01 +0000

Dark Sailor Mercury

Name: Ami Mizuno
Series: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Debuted: Setsucon 2011
Status: Active

Notes

2nd Place Hall Cosplay, Journeyman Division – Setsucon 2011

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Kali — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:59:19 +0000

Guy didn’t attach his trailer to the hitch correctly. I hit it doing 65. It was ugly.

Anonymous vs Scientology hits the streets.

My New Favorite Dr. Horrible Shot

Kali — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:05:32 +0000

Taken at AnimeUSA 2008. The one day I decided not to wear Doc, Captain Hammer and a whole group of groupies showed up. >_<*

Medic – Team Fortress 2 Cosplay

Kali — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:53:10 +0000

You can view my full Otakon 2008 coverage over at the cosplay site.

Medic

Name: Medic
Series: Team Fortress 2
Debuted: Otakon 2008
Status: Active

Notes

The coat is just the muslin for the final coat which will be made out of a heavier wool. I just figured that I didn’t want to die of heat exhaustion in the Baltimore heat.

The Engineer with me is Diastelo.

Efiction 3 Skin – Teal Deer

Kali — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:05:20 +0000

This skin is designed for Efiction 3

This is a fixed width skin with rounded corners and a teal gradient. It displays three blocks in the header on all pages.

Download .zip file – Downloaded times

Test Archive

The skins on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.

Paid To Click – Paid to Surf – Are they scams?

Kali — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:22:42 +0000

Total Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post, but I do stand to benefit if you click on my referral link.

A couple of people have asked me about paid to surf programs after I posted about CashDuck.

So I did a little research, and most of the people I’ve talked to haven’t been scammed by their paid-to-surf/paid-to-click, it’s just they didn’t really make that much money. At only a few cents per click, you have to click twenty times to make $1. If takes quite a bit of time to make money, but there’s no capital investment. Still, do research on each site before you join.

The secret to paid to surf or paid to click programs is that you don’t make your money off of doing the actual surfing yourself, you make your money by referring other people to the program and getting a percentage of their earnings. If you convince a few friends or family to join, you’ll make about 10% of what they make on the average. So if your mom is an overzealous clicker and makes $50 in a month, you’d get about $5 of that. Chances are, however, that most of your referrals will never click a single link or they will give up on the program within a few weeks.

Like CashDuck, you won’t be able to make a living off of Paid to Surf referral programs unless you have a large site with a ton of visitors or a massive newsletter. On the other hand, free money is free money.

Pay2Surft.net is my paid-to-surf of choice. The payout is between $.09 to $.40 per click and the referral payout is 15% I’m not making enough to quit my dayjob, but it’s enough to pay my hosting bills and domain registrations.

Make Money At Home – Cashduck

Meet the Scout – Team Fortress 2 Cosplay

Kali — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:22:51 +0000

Team Fortress 2 Scout Cosplay/Costume. (If you are looking for the “Meet the Scout” video post, head on over here

This is such a ghetto-tastic costume, but I love it. It’s basically my Team Fortress 2 costume placeholder until I get the Medic and Engineer finished. Here’s the rundown for those who want to make it for themselves:

Katsucon 2008

Kali — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:47 +0000

So… Katsucon 2008.
I went solo. Because Maura’s car caught on fire.
This is me:

What are you looking at, knuckleheads?

Anyway…

Friday
Friday I headed over about 3 o’clock because I had finally finished repainting my stupid whiffle bat. (I had to go to 5 stores to find a freakin’ whiffle bat. Everything else was those stupid wussy foam bats. C’mon, I want some sting when I bonk people.)

First things first, I checked out the Artist Alley. To me, it was kind of boring because there was still a lack of fun crafty things, thanks to Katsu’s stupid rules. I don’t want yet another print of someone’s fanart, kthxbye. However, the hall o’ webcomics was much more entertaining, and seeing as it was still early, no crowds (yay!) I chilled for a bit with several artists and discovered that quite a few of them were teaming up for an epic Team Fortress 2 group at Otakon. w00t!

The arcade portion of the video game room was neat, with lots of old school cabinets. The console portion was made of fail. I was not impressed with the Halo boxes (can play that at home, thanks) and the array of games wasn’t all that interesting. I can sit at my own apartment and play Portal, that’s not what I paid for a $50 badge to do.

There was very little I wanted to see in the way of anime, either. Most of it was rather mainstream and I had pictures to take.

I’d first like to point out that Katsu is not a good con for pictures. The lighting sucks and if you don’t have a decent flood flash, you’re screwed. I have a rinky-dink Powershot. Good little camera, but it didn’t fair well with the horrible yellow lighting. Also, tiny hallways are tiny. You couldn’t really stop in them for a shot, so you had to head for one of the horribly placed photoareas.

Of course none of this stopped me from coming home with over 150 pictures, and that’s just from two days.

On one of my many laps around the con, I ran into the rest of BLU team.

Notice I look scared, as well I should be. To make a long story short, I ran into them later that night and we hit the hotel bar, where I did my best impression of a Demoman. I will not be doing this again.

Saturday
I was supposed to be part of a Sailormoon group. Unfortunately, I got stuck on the Metro for an hour.
At least they still looked good.

Well, now I had the rest of the day to myself to take pictures. Yay! But first I staggered into the Cosplay Plus panel because I met the ladies running it the night before. It was interesting, I just wish more of the target audience had attended.

After lots more picture taking, I ended up at the Geek Comedy Tour 3000. I had actually seen them before at T-Mode, but they were just as funny this time around. If you spot them near you, go see them!

Lots more picture taking ensued, and then the massive Phoenix Wright shoot showed up.
There’s more of them, but I couldn’t cram them in the picture! I was going to follow the shoot outside, but got distracted.

Finally, Mike spotted me around 7pm. He’d been looking for me all day (he should have just followed the people screaming “MEDIC!” after me.) We grabbed some grub and then wandered into the video game room again, but weren’t impressed. Shortly thereafter, I gave up on Katsucon and staggered home.

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I didn’t do Sunday, because I was tired. >_< Next year I think I am only going to do Saturday unless I get an Artist Alley table. While I had fun, it was nothing to do with the programming of the convention and everything to do with the people I met there. $50 was way to much money for attending 1 panel and 1 main event.

Anyway, here’s the entirety of my pictures. BewareofNinja.com

My Mario Bros. Wedding Cake – Boo!

Kali — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:27:30 +0000

Or as most of my wedding thought – Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, See no Evil. >_< Man, we are such geeks.

More pics after the break.

I was so sad when I had to cut him. Created by Lori Legott of Club 86, Geneva NY.

P.S. It was delicious and moist.

(If you’re going to steal my pics, at least link back to this site, mmmkay?)

I Hate Wedding Planning

Kali — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:22:08 +0000

…and I’m never doing it again.

It occurs to me that I never really actually blogged about my wedding. It’s been nearly a month now, so I guess it’s time to smother everyone with unnecessary details.

Just kidding! Everything pretty much went off as planned, so no worries there. We still haven’t gotten back our photographer’s work, so not many wedding photos yet, but you can see the honeymoon pictures (no, not that kind!) on my Flickr account.