I'm going to wrap up what passes for a Loscon con report with a few notes on my current mobile recording rig. This consisted of the Edirol UA25 that I mentioned buying in this post, and a Behringer C2 matched pair of condenser mics. The latter were surprisingly cheap -- on ( Read more... )

I was in two panels on Saturday, both in the filk room. The first was on songwriting, with Lee Gold (and Lynn Maudlin, who we later found out hadn't gotten her correct schedule). The second was on "The Media of Filk", with Lee and Eric Gerds (filk.com Both went off OK, though it was touch and go whether we'd have an audience ( Read more... )

Now that I'm home with my software running on a real computer, I can post my setlist for Loscon:

Set list: Loscon-2006
1. Ta(l)king Preorders
2. Silk and Steel
3. The Last Train
4. Cicero in the Twenty First Century
5. Guilty Pleasures
6. The Mushroom Song
7. The World Inside the Crystal

You'll note that it's pretty short ( Read more... )

Right now I'm in a hotel room with three lovely young ladies. Of course the chaoswolf and super_star_girl are still asleep. The flower_cat just woke up. This post may end up a little short if we can manage to wake the kids up and go to breakfast...

My concert was a little shaky, and the audience was maybe a dozen people ( Read more... )

Well, we made it down to Loscon. The flower_cat and I ended up not eating turkey -- the claim is that it's high enough in tryptophan to make you sleepy. She had the prime rib dinner, and I had roast leg of lamb. Both were excellent. The kids split a plate of fettuccini Alfredo, which left super_star_girl enough room for pumpkin pie for desert.

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After spending much of Sunday afternoon trying unsuccessfully to get my ( Read more... )

At the moment, the only contact information for Loscon on the web can be found here in the archived website of Loscon 32. Since all the email addresses are generic, there's a pretty good chance they're forwarded to the right people, though of course there's no way of knowing in all cases. "Programming" is known to work.

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