updating on the run
As you may have guessed, it's been a really busy week for me. Check the time-stamp to see that I've just gotten home from Friday night of I-Con. Soon to bed for a few hours sleep, and then Kit and I head back to the convention in the morning for my two Saturday panels (the previously listed schedule is slightly updated: I'm on the "Space Opera/Soap Opera" panel at 2PM, not the "Mars or Bust" panel). Then commute home, and back out there for Sunday (the 10PM panel is actually at 10AM Sunday).
I'm hoping things will calm down a little next week. But for now, there are several things I haven't had a chance to post here. Last Thursday we saw a screening of The Last Mimzy, which I wrote a review of for SFScope.com. Short form: it's a good movie, feel free to take the kids.
Last weekend was Lunacon, for which, again, I wrote a review at SFScope.com. Read it there, if you're interested. There's no long list of the all the cool lj people I saw there, because that would be inappropriate for the venue, but I did appreciate my conversations with all of you, and enjoyed seeing those of you I didn't get a chance to spend more time with.
I've saved links to several articles I wanted to write about, but again, there hasn't been enough time. There were several articles in The New York Times about a case the Supreme Court heard regarding freedom of speech and a school's right to limit the speech of a student. An earlier article there commented on the interesting combination of groups arguing each side of the issue. And later, there were several letters published about it. (I didn't get a chance to write a letter in time.) I think this is a very important case, and I'll be watching for a decision this summer. I kind of think the Court will opt to rule very narrowly on the specific case, rather than issue a much broader ruling, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it should be interesting.
Later, I was pleased by this CNN.com article, in which Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. ruled that it's a parent's responsibility to police his child's internet surfing, rather than a burden on companies to make certain children visiting their sites can't see what they shouldn't. Hurrah for rationality. The New York Times also had a piece on this.
Now, to sleep. And then early, back to I-Con.
I'm hoping things will calm down a little next week. But for now, there are several things I haven't had a chance to post here. Last Thursday we saw a screening of The Last Mimzy, which I wrote a review of for SFScope.com. Short form: it's a good movie, feel free to take the kids.
Last weekend was Lunacon, for which, again, I wrote a review at SFScope.com. Read it there, if you're interested. There's no long list of the all the cool lj people I saw there, because that would be inappropriate for the venue, but I did appreciate my conversations with all of you, and enjoyed seeing those of you I didn't get a chance to spend more time with.
I've saved links to several articles I wanted to write about, but again, there hasn't been enough time. There were several articles in The New York Times about a case the Supreme Court heard regarding freedom of speech and a school's right to limit the speech of a student. An earlier article there commented on the interesting combination of groups arguing each side of the issue. And later, there were several letters published about it. (I didn't get a chance to write a letter in time.) I think this is a very important case, and I'll be watching for a decision this summer. I kind of think the Court will opt to rule very narrowly on the specific case, rather than issue a much broader ruling, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it should be interesting.
Later, I was pleased by this CNN.com article, in which Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr. ruled that it's a parent's responsibility to police his child's internet surfing, rather than a burden on companies to make certain children visiting their sites can't see what they shouldn't. Hurrah for rationality. The New York Times also had a piece on this.
Now, to sleep. And then early, back to I-Con.