Comments on: Modding my wireless keyboard

By: Michael Livingston

Michael Livingston — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:21:31 +0000

You’re welcome. Thank you.

By: David Loftus

David Loftus — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:04:25 +0000

>> Any good cons in Florida?

Well, there’s this GREAT beachfront property that I can get you for a steal . . .

[Sorry!]

As for the new design, it’s weigh kewl; sort of an artsy version of combat camouflage.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:36:48 +0000

Happy to help!

By: Zoid

Zoid — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:51:47 +0000

t’anks, o’ great Queen!

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:50:47 +0000

Did you pop off the keys like on your laptop? (the keys on mine are gray and Iâ€™ll prob. be painting them.)

Just how much disasembly did you have to do?I did not pop the keys off on this one. I popped one off of my old broken keyboard as a test and discovered that I could not pop them back on. It was technically possibly but impractical as it had two moving parts underneath.

I know you just finished this. Iâ€™ve just had thoughts about the edges coming up. Also getting a smooth covering over the rounded corners.

The paper was thin enough that rounding the corners wasn’t a problem. I trimmed a couple of darts in, but otherwise just smoothed it.

Just how much disasembly did you have to do?

None. But I did have a judicious use of waxed paper around the antenna when doing the interior paper.

By: Zoid

Zoid — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:15:09 +0000

I’ve soooooooo been waiting for you to do this!

Now I can ask you my geeky little questions.

ummm please!!!!

Did you pop off the keys like on your laptop? (the keys on mine are gray and I’ll prob. be painting them.)

I know you just finished this. I’ve just had thoughts about the edges coming up. Also getting a smooth covering over the rounded corners.

Just how much disasembly did you have to do?

Now I wait for a response with baited breath (yum sushi!!) from the great Queen of Craftines.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:25:18 +0000

Thank you!

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:18:47 +0000

I’m not sure. The initial keyboard was less than an hour. The rest of the papering I did in spurts while waiting on other projects to dry. Maybe three hours all told?

I left it shut last night and this morning it felt like it was glued that way. Fortunately, not, just a little sticky from the humidity. I’ll have to seal it, I think.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:16:01 +0000

Happy to be of service, Lawrence.

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:01:12 +0000

That’s so awesome!

By: Mike F

Mike F — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:02:01 +0000

That is very cool. If I tried something like that I would probably render it useless. How long did it take?

By: Lawrence M. Schoen

Lawrence M. Schoen — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:41:43 +0000

I wish I could properly express how joyful I feel when I see posts like this. Thank you for a glorious start to the week.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:24:28 +0000

Funny you should mention that… There are two spots where I want to replace the rubber with leather.

Oh, and you, sir, totally need to bind a laptop into a leathercraft book, if you haven’t done so already.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:58:33 +0000

It’s awesome! And I do think you should bronze your Palm.

(but where’s the leather? ;P )

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:27:07 +0000

I see how this is. I make you blush and you return the favour.

*waves the first fansign: “MRK ROX MY SOX!”*

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:20:20 +0000

Iron Chef! I knew I liked you for a reason.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:17:13 +0000

You know, I thought that might be the case, but–*is momentarily distracted by Alton Brown on Iron Chef America Sharpie-ing up his honeybee bicep tattoo to explain the honeymaking process*

O_o oooookay–but yeah, WordPress is a strange animal to me. I’ve really only used Blogger and LiveJournal with any sort of regularity since the last millennium.

*hopes for other readers to chime in and say they’ll be going to any of these so you’ll have more incentive to go!*

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:15:10 +0000

Great lineup. Hm… it doesn’t look like any of these will work this year, but maybe next.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:10:18 +0000

There, there. It doesn’t hate you, it just holds comments with multiple links for moderation. I used to have that detail mentioned in the comments, but it looks like it vanished when I restored after the hacking incident.

I’ll work on fixing that this week.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:48:19 +0000

So WordPress hates me, I think, for the comment I’ve attempted to post three times now. Please check your friends list on LJ for what I was trying to post, lol. (I hope this posts!)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:40:58 +0000

Actually, it reeks of paste.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:38:25 +0000

So I went through Wikipedia’s list of “science fiction conventions” and I have come up with these that you might be interested in…

Con*Stellation, Huntsville, Alabama: http://www.con-stellation.org/constell/index.html
EyeCon, Orlando, Florida: http://www.eyeconfla.com/
OASIS, Orlando, Florida: http://oasfis.org/oasis/ (but that’s next weekend, haha, and some weird guy we both know is gonna be there as a guest, apparently…I gotta take my goddaughter to the out-of-town hospital then, argh!)
Ancient City Con, Jacksonville, Florida: http://www.ancientcitycon.com/ (If you came to this, after I stopped screaming for several days in pure and utter glee, I would be there with bells on!!!)
Anime Festival Orlando, Orlando, Florida: http://www.animefestivalorlando.com/ (This is listed as a sci-fi convention as well, and I include it because I am confirmed to be there doing Asian ball-jointed doll stuff, but I generally have such tunnel vision at anime conventions these days I don’t know how sci-fi it honestly is, but if it tickles your fancy…)
Dragon*Con, Atlanta, Georgia: http://www.dragoncon.org/ (this is a giant, GIANT convention)
Necronomicon, Tampa, Florida: http://www.stonehill.org/necro.htm

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:29:33 +0000

It reeks of coolness!

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:27:13 +0000

I wish. But, I’m attending a workshop in September and I doubt know if I can swing both.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:25:17 +0000

Not that I know of that would cater to you, honestly, as MegaConvention has already gone by (focuses on all types of geekery) and the rest are pretty much anime/Japanese culture-themed.

Have you thought about attending Dragon*Con in Atlanta in September?

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:20:24 +0000

Thanks, Jeremy!

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:20:09 +0000

I am lame and have not posted my con schedule for the year, but I can rattle them off for you.
Wiscon next weekend.
Readercon July 17-20 (Boston)
Worldcon August 6th-10th (Denver)
Maybe World Fantasy, but money is looking tight.

Any good cons in Florida?

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:12:24 +0000

Indulge me, because my net skills are failing (and it may be due to this Son of Frankenstein cocktail I seem to have thrown together out of things that should not go together) and link me to your con schedule? I tend to not venture out of Florida, but to meet my Net crush and have a cool portable typewriter I could see about making an exception…

By: Jeremy Tolbert

Jeremy Tolbert — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:06:31 +0000

Awesome work as always, Mary.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:01:18 +0000

Nice icon.

And thank you.

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:59:20 +0000

If we’re going to be at any of the same cons this year, let me know and I’ll bring my tools.

By: Michael Livingston

Michael Livingston — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:47:55 +0000

Filed under “Mary Rocks.” Reason no. 91557423.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:45:32 +0000

If I could live without my Macbook for longer than approximately 12 hours, I’d beg you to let me give you money to decoupage/steampunk it. The starburst crack on the upper half’s casing (and the ensuing need to protect it as my pink Speck cover does) would make it interesting…

THAT IS SO FREAKING COOL THOUGH. I LOVE IT.