Dragon Award deadline impending
Dragon Con is running an award this year, the Dragon Award. They had a nominations phase that's now over; voting...
Pournelle on ebooks, from 1980
Late in 2015, I read an issue of Destinies (a “paperback magazine”) from 1980; it included a piece by Jerry...
The art of repeating the question on panels
We had a discussion last week on Facebook about the importance of con panelists using microphones (publicly visible post), but...
Do you ask people questions about themselves?
My friend L and I had been hanging out together for a few months, but they almost never asked me...
Who gets to pick what’s on the Hugo ballot?
I just posted this as a comment on Scalzi's blog entry about the Hugos, and figured I ought to post...
My plan for today
Home from Worldcon. What I want to do today but will try to refrain from doing: Spend all day reading...
Dream: Mega-mall plus crumbling ancient ruins
Dreamed I was hosting a social event but decided, an hour before it was scheduled to start, to briefly stop...
Belated update on E Pluribus Hugo
Here's a detailed analysis of the effects that the E. Pluribus Hugo proposal would have had on the 2014 and...
Moderators: Don’t try to guess audience members’ genders
A note to convention panel moderators: when you're calling on audience members, please don't attempt to identify them by gender....
My Worldcon schedule
At MidAmeriCon, I'll be on four panels (two of which I'm moderating). I also hope to attend most of the...
Update
Every time anyone's asked me how my leave is going, I've had to confess that I've been spending way too...
Some Monets I liked
In 2012, I saw a Monet exhibit (in Las Vegas, I think), and took some notes on paintings I particularly...