This year's Anthrocon went pretty well for me, at least from a staff/Operations standpoint! This being our 6th year in Pittsburgh, things went rather smoothly. Equipment arrived when it was supposed to, nothing went horribly wrong or got broken, and set up and teardown went fairly well. In that aspect, the con was somewhat "boring" for me, which ( Read more... )

I rolled in from Anthrocon around Midnight on Monday, and slept in yesterday. I then spent the rest of the day hosting staghorne and Joel Fox (both visiting from Sweden), along with doing laundry, chores, catching up on email, etc ( Read more... )

So I found this as a reply to my last post:


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Anthrocon 2011 is almost upon us! While I'm feeling a lot better than I was this time last year (due in part to my health improving), I still have that pre-con anxiety that I have every year. I suppose I'll get used to it someday.

Anyway, here's what my con schedule is roughly like for this year:

- Tuesday: Arriving around 11 PM. Having a ( Read more... )

At 9 AM this morning, we opened up the hotel registrations for Anthrocon 2011. Here are the performance graphs, with annotations:


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First off, I'm still recovering from Anthrocon. Some folks may have noticed that I was limping around the con a bit. While my knees held up nicely during the con, my feet did not. This was due partly to the fact that I was stomping around on a hard concrete floor in the convention center for several days on end, and partly due to my prior ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks has been really really busy and really really exciting ( Read more... )

I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day weekend last weekend. I went up to my parents' place for the first time since Christmas. They're fine, the cat is stupid fine, and the rest of my family is fine ( Read more... )

So the user Jalterixnar on the Anthrocon forums was nice enough to create a commercial for Anthrocon 2010 and post it on YouTube:

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That is amazingly cool, and the tool used to create it was at http://www.youtube.com/searchstories. I've been playing with it on my own, and it's ( Read more... )