Dragon*Con Wrapup Part 1
Here’s my wrapup of this year’s trip to Dragon*Con. This is probably about the latest I can do it and have my friend brain cells intact enough to remember things. It might should go without saying that there is a looooong post warning, but I’ll try to spice it up with enough pictures to keep [...]
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Tags: beatnikturtle, dragoncon, dragoncon08, evoterra, murlafferty, realitybreakpodcast, rhettaultman, sheiladee, skepicalityDragon*Con Wrapup Coming
I really need to do a big wrapup of my Dragon*Con experience really soon, or else I’ll start forgetting details. I had much fun this year, my first since 2002, and would like to capture some of that in a permanent form on here. I plan on making a big linky, photo-riddled post but that [...]
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Tags: createsouth, dragoncon, grandstrandbloggers, realitybreakpodcastDragon*Con, Collapsing to the Finish Line
It’s been quiet on this blog. Too quiet.
I’m almost done with Dragon*Con. It’s been good and worth the trip. I’m too tired to write up a real report but trust me, it’s been good. The status is not quo.
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Tags: dragonconDragon*Con, Day 0
It is 2 hours before Dragon*Con officially begins and I’m back in my hotel resting. This will be a fun but a long and tiring weekend. I hope that swimming laps will have created in me the endurance I need.
I’ve already ran into a number of friends and will do what I can to run [...]
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Off To Dragon*Con
This afternoon I’ll be making the drive from Myrtle Beach to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. My deep hope is to get registered tonight so that I do not have to mess with that at all on Friday. I have a live taping of Reality Break with Mur Lafferty at 10 PM Friday night and my talk [...]
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Tags: beautifulred, darushawehm, dragoncon, realitybreak, realitybreakpodcastMur Lafferty Live Interview at Dragon*Con
I have an hour slot to record at Dragon*Con, which will be Friday at 10 PM. I just posted over on the Reality Break site that I’ve booked Mur Lafferty to be the guest for the live Reality Break episode. The plan is to do both a Reality Break and an EGC clambake episode in [...]
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Tags: dragoncon, murlafferty, podcasting, realitybreakpodcastDragon*Con Schedule
I’ll be at Dragon*Con next weekend. I’m doing a live taping of this podcast and/or an epsiode of Reality Break on Friday from 10-11 PM. On Sunday at 8:30 PM I’ll be giving a talk on the podcasting track entitled “Why Podcasting Matters.” Earlier today I described it as “a mashup of both my NME [...]
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Tags: podcastingConvention Season
I’m thinking a lot about conventions lately. This is the first year where not only am I not going to Podcast Expo but I never for a second even considered going. I was scheduled to speak last year but when it came down not only was my day job so crushing at the time but [...]
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Tags: dragoncon, heroescon, orycon, podcastexpo, realitybreakpodcast, smallpressexpo, xconRecordings and SF Conventions
Tom Spurgeon points out that the panels he moderated at Heroes Con were recorded for posterity by the Dollar Bin guys. I’ve been listening to these and really appreciate them since I wanted to go to the convention this year and couldn’t. This brings up a point I’ve been meaning to blog about for years [...]
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Tags: dollarbinpodcast, heroescon, oryconPanel Rundown: The Myth of the Intelligent Machine
Place: Orycon 2006
Saturday, 6 PM
Panelists: Rick Lindsley, Michael A. Martin, Me
Moderator: David W. Goldman
This was one of those panels that has a stacked premise in the title, “The Myth of the Intelligent Machine.” That panel more or less as one rejected that stackedness. David G, with whom I had shared the panel on computers in [...]
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Tags: oryconOrycon Panel Writeups
I have thus far gotten zero feedback on any of my Orycon stuff - not the podcast interviews nor the panel writeups. Nonetheless, I’m going to push through and try to finish up the remaining three panel recaps today. I should have closed those out weeks ago before the fine details faded from my memory [...]
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Tags: oryconPanel Rundown: Computing Science Fiction
Place: Orycon 2006
Friday, 3 PM
Panelists: L. Pierce Ludke, Frank Hayes, David W. Goldman (Michael Ehart scheduled, couldn’t make it)
Moderator: Me
[Enough time has elapsed that my memory is starting to get shaky. Correct me if you catch a technical inaccuracy. I might correct some if this from listening to the recording of it later. ]
This was [...]
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Tags: oryconPanel Rundown: Computer Viruses Then and Now
Place: Orycon 2006
Saturday, 5 PM
Panelists: Ben Yalow, Frank Hayes, Michael Ehart, Me
Moderator: Michael Pearce
So I’ll be honest about this panel. There was nothing wrong with it, it was a fine panel but it was a subject that I just ain’t that worked up about. I ended up hanging out with Michael the moderator at other [...]
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Tags: oryconWhat’s in Your Duffel Bag?
Since Dom asked, I’ll pull a Thomas Pynchon and write out some big honking lists of stuff to serve as characterization.
I had two bags at Orycon that were almost always with me. This might seem like a ridiculous amount of stuff for a weekend trip (and this doesn’t include the suitcase with clothes) but I [...]
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Tags: oryconCreative Commons Filk
Lazy web request from an exhausted and overwhelmed man. I hope to put together my first Orycon episode of the podcast in the next few days and I’d like to get some good filk and/or fannish music to go along with it. I would appreciate it if someone could please point me to a resource [...]
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Back to Normal Life
I’ve been back home for almost 48 hours and I’m still a little tired and my voice still sounds like Tom Waits. Three days of solid talking, much of it in loud rooms, will do that to a person. I’m delighted I went to Orycon. I hadn’t really been planning on it until they invited [...]
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Tags: oryconPanel Rundown: The Great Writers Blog
Place: Orycon 2006
Sunday, 12 PM
Panelists: Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal
Moderator: Me
Jay and Mary were both people that I met as we sat down at the table and people that I liked quite a bit. I had a chance to talk to both in hallways later on and carry on the conversation a little [...]
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Tags: corydoctorow, jaylake, maryrobinettekowal, oryconThere and Back Again
So I did make it in (see other post for my minor blowup about it) and then made it in to work around the tail end of lunchtime. I was weary and I’ll admit I nodded off at least once, but in my delirium got something to work that I was wrestling with all the [...]
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Orycon Day 3
More panels, one I moderated and one on which I was along for the ride. Both were good, a little bit of profundity was talked at each. I said some smart things on both and also some dumb on both. In short, it was a lot like life. I’m in the wind down stage and [...]
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Tags: oryconOrycon Day and Night 2
Things are going pretty swimmingly. I got to see a lot of my friends from the PDX last night, and even bridged the gap from conventioneers to mundanes by taking my friends around to room parties last night. I got to see my former vice-president of publishing for whom I worked hanging out at the [...]
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