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going to Arisia
Heading to Boston this weekend. Hope to see a few of you there.
Do please note that I am not keeping up with reading LiveJournal. I have twice as many "friends" on Facebook and it's easier to follow people there, so that's the first (and usually only) place I skim for what people are up to. -
a glut of silent spam
Two years ago, I started working on a web site. I installed an online forum. Anyway the site never really went live. More recently, as I've been working on the SFContario web site, I turned on web statistics. And I discovered a lot of traffic on the site that had never been publicized ( Read more... ) -
Avatar was great.... really!
In 1986, mvt and I went to Vancouver for Expo 86, the World's Fair that year. In what is now BC Place, we saw some 3-D animation in IMAX films. They were cool. Honestly I don't recall what the movies were about, but the technology was ( amazing... ) -
several updates
Friday, November 20
Went to the Ramada Plaza to sign the hotel contract and put down a deposit. We are now actual conrunners, not just posers. Then had dinner with marahsk, dlacey, and Catherine at El Trompo. Discussed SFContario and assorted future plans, including Midwest Construction 2013 in Windsor.
Saturday, November 21
- First Annual General Meeting for ( Read more... )
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an excellent Windycon
Actually I don't have much sense of how the convention went as a whole, but I saw lots of folks having a great time, and I got a lot done.
- Went to the Chicago Worldcon bid party for about three hours on Friday, talking about the bid with various people.
- Set up a Skype call to allow rono_60103 and Gary B. to participate in the call. It worked very well; ( Read more... )
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what we'll do differently
We had an SFContario meeting on Sunday. Other than the hotels we're talking to all being stupid lately, the meeting went well ( Read more... ) -
weekend in Raleigh
Haven't been to a convention for so long that I went to a meeting.
Flew to Raleigh on Friday. Barely made the flight; traffic on the QEW added hours to the drive. We got there too late to check bags, so marahsk had to abandon her shampoo and conditioner. Fortunately gate 6 in Buffalo is right next to security, so we had minutes to spare. (By which I mean ( Read more... ) -
Les Paul, 1915-2009
Musical pioneer Les Paul died at the age of 94 in White Plains, NY ( Read more... ) -
Anticipation schedule
Following is my schedule for Anticipation. Looks like I'll be busy, but I'll be pretty easy to find.
I believe our hotel room is 2819 at the Delta Centreville. All references to the "Delta" refer to our hotel room.(Hope this is readable in most browsers.)
DateTimeLocationEvent
Sat., Aug. 111:00 PMDeltaarrival
Sun., Aug. 21:30 PMtbaTAFF lunch
4: ( Read more... )