yay Gigantor!

[ciphergoth]

Gigantor was very much fun. Very many pretty people. Much good music. As usual when I've got a cold, I didn't dress up and I drank relatively little, but I still danced quite a lot. 'Twas good.

Yesterday I did some hand washing. If I thought I had job security at the moment, I'd offer to pay a hard-up goth in return for doing some of my hand washing, because I never get around to it, but I have to remind myself it's really not as hard as all that.

I've admitted I'm never going to get around to making my own tamper-evident collar, and mailed a fetish leather maker to ask how much it would cost to get them to make it.

Now I'm working on Chapter 5 of Daemen's PhD thesis some more. It's quite hard going, but it does lay the basis for modern theory about provable security against linear and differential cryptanalysis. Later today I must do some work on the BiCon booking form, and also sort some stuff out for our Big Party on March 30th.

Update: none of this clubgoing has had any success in dislodging the tunes from "...Once more with feeling!" from my head.

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[mhw.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I did some hand washing. If I thought I had job security at the moment, I'd offer to pay a hard-up goth in return for doing some of my hand washing, because I never get around to it, but I have to remind myself it's really not as hard as all that.

Now that's what I call indolence! Just run the water warm, grab the soap, hold your hands under the water a moment, rub them together, then put the soap down. Lather, rinse, repeat. I feel utterly luxurious when I get Jus to wash my back - but hands?

Thuough maybe it would be a nice subby kind of thing to do :)

[giolla.livejournal.com]

If thier quote is too high, give me a shout.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

They can't do it at all.

Thanks for your interest, unfortunately it doesn't sound like something that we could make.

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Really your best bet would be plastic or cloth. If you did this with leather it would be in a pretty poor state, especially after washing etc.

I'll chuck you an email...

[giolla.livejournal.com]

There reply is strange to say the least, just for the benefit of anyone else interested in the project I'll quickly say why:

Leather will survive water/washign quite happliy if treated properly I have a trench coat and numerous boots to proof this /* gloves and such survive the washign machine and are a lot happier after a bit of leather cream */ Ok don't soak in the bath but hardly a major problem.

Non-leather might survive for longer, a plastic or leatherette would be an option. Cloth certainly, though I thing having a thickish cloth collar drying out around your neck would be far more unpleasant.

Strange people.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Cloth's not really tempting, I agree. Plastic seems like an option, but I suspect leather would look better and be more comfortable - if you reckon it can be made durable enough for the shower, that sounds OK.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Leather, even crappy leather, washes just fine. I used to wear leather bracelets (the kind that tie on and don't come off til they fall off. I would buy one each year at Strawberry Fair and wear it for a year, at which point it would mystically fall off in time for the fair so I had to get a new one.
So, unless you're planning to keep someone collared (or be collared yourself) for over a year, you shouldn't have a problem.
Only snag I can envisage is that if someone's going to wear it for a long time, damp leather against the skin can chafe, and also if it's tightish it might be hard to clean underneath it.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Much what I was thinking.
Certainly leather I've washed which has dried out a bit has been fine after oiling.

The point about chafing is relevant though, I think the simplest answer is don't make it too tight, and the person wearing it has to remember to dry the collar as well as themselves.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Sounds fair.

once more with feeling

[missedephemera.livejournal.com]

I agree, I saw it a while ago and I still find myself humming the tunes :-)