I've been organising my cabinets today. As some of you may have gathered (especially from Sari's ongoing commentary here and there) I have few reams of paper products: fanzines, drawings, fiction, doodles, print-outs, crap, notebooks etc. Couple of cabinets, really.

I managed to get rid of couple of boxes, one of which (rather surprisingly) ( Read more... )

Easter! The Redeemer! The Passion!

Or... four-day-weekend. I'll take that.

I was going to write something really spiffy about various Tähtivaeltaja Award nominees (that includes Tähtifantasia, the one I'm chairing this year), but I've mostly been reading and feeling very much relaxed. Good, innit?

Åcon2 is coming, soon! You should reserve ( Read more... )

The season is over. Once more we're left with bedufflement. Why? What? Who? And why the hell cannot our players score?

*sigh*

Not in a mood for blogging. First ACC dies and now this. Spring, your turn.

"So, what is Parcon?", asks the uninitiated fan from Lesser Knowledge. Glad you asked, I'll try to answer.

Czechs are known as nearly-as-lucky-but-not-quite-as-lucky-as-Swedes ice hockey players, purveyors of great beer and Velvet Revolution (not to be mistaken for Velvet Underground, which was Vaclac Havel's lesser known band in the Days of Yore).

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We increased our television channel intake by getting a package deal from Elisa for about a dozen channels. Mainly so that Sari would be able watch Ice Skating (some Championships begin tomorrow). And since they were also very much interested in keeping us happy, they threw in three months worth of MTV3+ channels: Ava, Fakta, Max, This, That - and ( Read more... )

Hello again!

Took some time off from all that PeBloWriMoing. Missed me? Oh...

As some of you may already know, Finncon2009 (10th - 12th of July) takes place in Kaapelitehdas. It took some time to find a proper venue for the kind of convention we wanted to do: a joint Finncon/Animecon, where both can exist together, but still have their own space. ( Read more... )

Last weekend went in such a hurry that I can barely realise that it is Sunday now and tomorrow I have to go work again. *sigh*

No PeBloWriMo for karkauspäivä or Leap Day, as it is evidently called. Wasn't near computer that day. Very busy also. We went to Ikea, just for fun, since we actually had a lot to do last Friday, but... Went to Ikea and ( Read more... )

OK, it's really Saturday, but I just got back from SF-mafia at St. Urho's Pub. If you're ever in the neighbourhood, feel free to drop in every other Thursday (odd weeks, like week number 1, 3, 5, 15, 37, 41 and so forth) starting from 6PM'ish.

Decent crowd today: some less seen figures like Päivi, out-of-towners like Juri and way-long-ago-last- ( Read more... )

Last two days have been bit more "exciting" than I expected, as I was transferred to another place at the Work. New gig, new duties, new everything. Pretty busy. Overtime."Spennailua", as we from Helsinki would say. We'll see how this goes. In actuality, this particular stint will last only until Wednesday, when I will take over the job I've been ( Read more... )

"You maniacs! You blew it up! Oh, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

I'm thinking Åcon2 programming. I think we did pretty well last time with the proposed schedule, so I guess we might just continue with it. It looked like this. I think we might talk about translating, books (always a good plan), post colonialism in SF, forgotten authors, and ( Read more... )