Archive for Conventions
Mostly good day. Today (the 17th) would’ve been my mother’s 76th birthday. I wasn’t as fragile or distressed as I sometimes am this time of year, but nonetheless decided it would be good to keep social interaction relatively minimal with people who I don’t know. In the morning and early afternoon, I helped Mary Anne […]
Good tweet from KTO: ...we can either find reasons to improve inclusion, or we can make excuses for continuing past exclusion.— Kat Tanaka Okopnik (@KTOkopnik) August 23, 2018 Which reminds me of a recent thing I was thinking about. During the discussion about this year’s Worldcon programming, I had the following series of reactions (in […]
I’ll be attending Worldcon in San José this coming weekend. My only specifically scheduled plan is to attend the Hugo ceremony on Sunday evening. Other than that, I’ll be wandering around, attending panels, maybe attending some parts of the WSFS Business Meetings (though probably not the whole thing this time), hanging out with friends, etc. […]
My day went okay on the anniversary of my father’s death (Wednesday), but I seem to have been getting more tense and irritable since then rather than less. This morning, I finished up an overdue work thing (which was good; I had been pretty tense about not getting that done), then finished packing stuff up […]
FOGcon attendees: Saturday morning in the game room, from 10:30 to 11:45, I’ll be hosting a “gadget and device petting zoo.” I’ll bring a bunch of cool and fun toys and devices to let people try out, but it doesn’t have to be just my stuff; if you have things you think other people would […]
I'm at FOGcon, but boy am I not in con headspace. This morning I woke up a couple hours later...
Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting...
We had a discussion last week on Facebook about the importance of con panelists using microphones (publicly visible post), but...
A note to convention panel moderators: when you're calling on audience members, please don't attempt to identify them by gender....
At MidAmeriCon, I'll be on four panels (two of which I'm moderating). I also hope to attend most of the...
I meant to post the other day to say that the community stepped forward and met my $2500 matching donation...
With three days left, we're nearly halfway to the matching goal! Many thanks to everyone who's donated. If you haven't...