Panel: Two PhDs, one current masters program student, kestrell who finished her MA in September, and queenofhalves's John who is a doctoral student in cognitive science at MIT ( Read more... )

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The Queen is dead; long live the Queen ( Read more... )

At last, the panel for which I have waited all weekend. You know how I love the post-apocalypse ( Read more... )

I tagged along to this one with avivasedai from the last panel, with whom I bonded over the hideously annoying audience member in front of us. Sorry, Firefly fans, this means skipping that panel ( Read more... )

I'm here because I still have a soft spot in my heart for the Highlander TV series, although this is the literary track so it'll probably be a little different. I do enjoy characters like Hob "Death is a mug's game" Gadling in Sandman, though.

Oh, and one of the panelists just ID'd herself as a big fan of Highlander, although pretty much everyone ( Read more... )

Panel starting with a middle-aged guy joking that when you get 1000 friends, you get "one of these on your lap." "One of these" is a woman who now just identified herself as "his accessory." Well, this is a little creepy ( Read more... )

Note: I missed the Hermione Granger panel at 11 because I missed my bus. Sorry ( Read more... )

Question #1: Is there really a line between online and RL? One panelist thinks it's "not as fuzzy as we think." I personally disagree, but I have never been that confident about how well we know a lot of people whom we think we know. Certainly I think there are a lot of modes of knowing people, and I would agree that sometimes we find we learn ( Read more... )

One of the panel members has just complained that people on his friendslist are constantly subjecting him to photos of their cats, and they don't have dedicated icons to give some warning that these are posts over which he should skip.

As you can see, thanks to foomanchoo, this is not a problem for people with ME on their friendslists ( Read more... )

I'm up in kestrell's hotel room with her and 43duckies, trying to figure out our schedules for the weekend at Arisia. Everything good in the world happens at 2 pm on Saturday, v. annoying ( Read more... )