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Model Build Gathering WebCam Feed/Link

Discussions with Brian resulted in an idea to broadcast or link the model build gatherings via webcams. I’d like to have something similar to video conferencing. So I’m sure the video camera dhcloud lent me would suffice, I think I would just need to play around with some video conferencing software. But the general idea is to help spread the knowledge. I know most of the folks at the build gatherings have learned an insurmountable amount of model building techniques simply by building together. Imagine the possibilities if we can get this to work properly.

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Otakon 2008 (After Con Post)

Still trying to recover from the past couple of days of being out in Maryland. Damn fun trip! The model contest wasn’t as exciting as it has in previous years, and I guess I can be proud that AX’s model contest now surpasses Otakon’s, so I guess some good is coming from the active push to get the contest into the forefront and get more exposure for it. At Otakon, I was able to make come connections that will hopefully benefit the model contest in the coming years. I got to see some faces that I haven’t seen in two years, and saw a good number of faces that I had met at Tekkoshocon 2007. I also got better acquainted with yet another female model builder that has also attended my workshops at AX. Damn good time.

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Otakon (pre con post)

Today, I fly out to Baltimore, actually Washington Dulles airport for the largest anime convention on the eastern seaboard; Otakon (Pronounced over there as oda-con). I missed the event last year. I like this event as it is very different from Anime Expo. The events and stuff are similar, and they both are anime conventions, but there is a different vibe. I enjoy both conventions, and it is difficult to compare them because their strengths and weaknesses are so different. If they were the same convention, I wouldn’t bother going to both.

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Remaining Friends

Yes, this is more mindless ramblings and nothing ado about model building, so if this does not interest you, move along. But if this does interest you, then sit down, it’s time for story time with Clem. The question at hand is about staying friends. And this is focused on staying friends with ex girlfriends, ex wives, ex husbands, etc. For the most part, folks generally cannot remain friends when the relationship ends. I know that I haven’t been able to remain friends with one of my ex girlfriends, but that I have been able to remain friends with two so far. I know a friend that has told me that they are still friends with their ex wife. But for the most part, a majority of my friends have not been able to remain friends after the relationship ends. Can you, and have you remained friends with someone you were once intimate with?

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