I was about 20 minutes late. In the pre-baby days an early panel was at 10 or 11 am (mostly because of the convention room parties that go on late into the night), but now that I have to feed the baby and take her along, even 12 pm is still early ( Read more... )

Knowing the troubles the organizational committee has been through this year, I expected a very chaotic, disorganized convention. And looking at their schedule and seeing how the panelists were a small subset of last year's panelists (and not many new people) reiterating some of the same topics as last year, I expected it might get just a taaaad ( Read more... )