This is a follow-up entry to "More Adventures in 3 Dimensions". In that previous post I talked about how I first became interested in 3D pictures due to being allowed to play with my Dad's old View-Master at an influential age. Now I'm returning to that subject because of something rather neat I discovered recently. While producing the YSDC 15th Anniversary USB Data Stick I decided to include a set of anaglyph "MythoVision" glasses and provide some additional content on the stick/card ...
Earlier this week I sent out a giveaway prize to someone in the United States. It was a graphic novel (one by Self Made Hero from their H.P. Lovecraft series). The cost for me to post that package was the rather tidy sum of £8.95 (c. $13.50 US) and of course since the rise in UK Royal Mail rates last April this level of pricing has become commonplace. Perhaps what alarmed me more is that I know the same book can be purchased (*and delivered*) for £9.59 from The Book Depository - that's ...
So yesterday I opened up a new forum area for YSDC Patrons ("The Silver Lodge") and at the same time brought out the first issue of Yog-Sothothery, a newsletter for members of the new "Lodge". It's been a long and winding path getting to this point. For a long time we've wrestled with how to pay olde Yoggie's bills month in, month out either through advertising/sponsorship, subscription or online sales. Our offerings through the Innsmouth House store tick over thanks to kind customers ...
As we mentioned in News from Pnakotus 13, there is in California a maker of certain headwear that has produced "the hat that should not be" - yes, the Cthulhu Fez! Fez-o-rama make "fine embroidered velvet fezzes" - and I can now attest to that, as earlier today something velvety and fezz-like arrived on the doorstep of Innsmouth House (no, not the cat). Yes, I'm wearing a fez as I type this and I suspect the next time you hear me on one of our shows I'll be wearing it too. I ...
As I've mentioned in the forums, Helen and I had a great time again at the UK Games Expo. It's a great opportunity for us to meet people from the site, make new friends and promote "Olde Yoggie" to people who'd not found us before (of which there were many). On the Friday we arrived at the Expo in Birmingham (after getting lost just the once this year) and unpacked "Carthulhu" and set up the Yoggie table in anticipation of the main Sat/Sun Expo days. This year we'd managed to up our ...