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Eastercon Talks
Tame Layman and I are both giving talks at Eastercon. Tame Layman will be talking about 'Robot Dinosaurs from Outer Space: the science behind animating ancient life' at 5.30pm on Friday and I will be talking on `How do I know my Robot is Safe?' at 1.45pm on Saturday.
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The Illustrated Police News
In the name of clearing out my "to post" backlog I thought I'd do a quick post about a talk we attended at Eastercon on the Illustrated Police News (its relevance to Eastercon is somewhat beyond me, but that is often the case with Eastercon talks, panels and activities). It was given by Linda Stratmann and based on her book Cruel Deeds and ( Read more... ) -
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Good: Eastercon
Bad: Getting behind on multiple fronts
Ugly: Arriving home to find the breaker had tripped in the kitchen and the fridge and freezer had warmed up to room temperature
The Fortunate: Freezer recently defrosted, no meat in fridge.
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B. and I just signed up... now to work out how to book the hotel!!
This entry was originally posted at http://purplecat.dreamwidth.org/20406.html.Women's Self Defense with Umbrella
I forgot to mention in my previous Eastercon post the Bartitsu ("The Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes") lecture that we went to. This, it must be said, started slow (and the speaker did a good impression of someone who had been drafted in to talk on the topic at the last minute and was making the best he could from a frantic Google and the discovery ( Read more... )