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Had fun. Met people. Am tired. Pants bankrupt.

More tomorrow.

Parisian underground cinema. Seriously underground:
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement ( Read more... )

OK, convention, yeah. That was more fun than I’d ever had at a Worldcon, and less time spent in the filk room than ever at (maybe) any con. There’s probably a causal relationship there - the filk room has become the place I go when I’m bored ( Read more... )

Woof. Great con. Tired now.

The cab ride from NYC-Chinatown to Jersey City cost more than the bus ride down from Boston.

Hey, bugsybanana, when did you cut out?

"I understand Mitsubishi is working on a robot truck designed to run over Asimo." -- John M Ford on the When is a Cyborg? panel

"It's like typing on a keyboard that's embedded in an aircraft carrier flight deck while facing an IMAX screen." -- Charles Stross on his 17" PowerBook

Security Tradeoffs panel:Jim Macdonald: "If any of you were buying ( Read more... )

Goth panel:
TNH on HP Lovecraft: "A Yankee xenophobe with a tolerably good prose style is menaced and then overcome by seafood."

Infodump panel:
TNH on summaries: "Nouns are hard to metabolize."

Mary Sue panel:
Kim Kindya on Masterharper Robinton: "He's become the Fonzie of Pern." (She later explained that bishonen is Japanese for "Orlando Bloom ( Read more... )

Testing Hblogger, which ought to let me post to LJ from my Palm. Just in case I can't go five days at Worldcon without posting.

[Posted with hblogger 2.0 http://www.hexlet.com/]

So, I’ve been really slack on my eating and exercise for about the past eight months or so. As in, lots, and crappy and pretty much not at all respectively. I’ve gained back, well, not all the weight I’ve lost, but more than half of it. My clothes are tight, and I feel like crap. And I’ve only gotten up and gone to the gym like twice in the three ( Read more... )

I’m way behind on my Hugo reading, and with the deadline at the end of this month, I dunno if I’m gonna make it, not all the novels and the short fiction. But on my most recent visit to Barnes & Noble I saw that Charlie Stross’s Singularity Sky is out in mass-market paper, and snatched it up. I really ought to read the other Best Novel nominees too ( Read more... )