Our hacker conference / geeky summer camp was a whole lot of fun. Hard to believe it's over.
I'll be writing more about it but first I want to tell you about a fun project I did: a Leela costume.

Leela is a character from the cartoon Futurama, drawn by the same guy as the Simpsons. She looks like this:

( Click to see how close I got! )

All in all, I had a lot of fun making this... and wearing it!

Those of you who have met me know that my user icon actually represents my hair colour... during the first three weeks after I've dyed it, of course. After that, it gradually bleaches to a washed-out reddish hue.
Usually, right after stoneshop  cuts it, I dye it eggplant colour again, to get rid of the odd two-tone effect (because most of the dye has grown out by then).
This time, when he had finished cutting my hair and asked me to check how I liked it, I held the mirror behind me to look at the back of my head (using a second mirror that's on the wall), saw the familiar contrast of the reddish dyed part and my own greyish-blonde colour, and decided I liked it.
So, because it's nice to do things different every now and then, I dyed only the front part, so I'd have three colours.
The result is rather funky!


It's not easy to take a picture of your own head, but it'll do. You can see my own hair colour at the roots, the reddish/pinkish locks on top (which aren't exactly as pink as it looks here, but it all depends greatly on lighting), and the dark purplish hue near the front. I think I like it!

Gelukkig nieuw haar! (happy new hair)