The Finnish national SF convention, Finncon was last weekend. I had a great time there and it was fun meeting friends and acquaintances from all over the country, and also making new acquaintances among the fans and the GOHs.

I had been visiting friends before the con and will be here after the con as well. We left here on Friday and drove to ( Read more... )

Hmm, it seems I'm going to be a participant in the "Bollywood & SF" (or whatever it's called) panel at the Finncon this Summer, which I just discovered by checking out the program. Pretty interesting, since nobody had mentioned it to me...

While we were at the World Village Festival and the POTC movie, sassiefin asked me if I would be interested to ( Read more... )

Nonni, nyt olen minäkin ottanut osaa fandomin yritykseen lähettää jukkahoo Japaniin :) (lisätietoja vaikkapa Teron blogista). Toivottavasti Jukka saa tarpeeksi puoltavia ääniä, koska hän todellakin ansaitsisi tuon reissun.

Nyt kun tulisi vielä jättipotti lotossa (hah, sen kun näkisi!), niin voisi itsekin harkita tuota reissua...

Åcon taitaa jäädä ( Read more... )

Sigh, how pathetic am I to keep Jiro Wang's blog page on the background while browsing the internet just because I really like Tank's "Street Fighter" and I haven't yet found an mp3 of it. Well, at least I'll get the CD in a week or so ( Read more... )

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Courtesy of dangermousie, I found this great and very amusing article on the true nature of Star Wars fandom. Since I used to be a huge SW fan in my teens, I can certainly recognize myself in some of these comments :).

( The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom )

Earlier today I was cursing extremely loudly and really wrestling with the temptation to throw my piece-of-shit Mac out the the window... Why, you ask? In one of the recent crashes it managed to develop a corrupted hard drive. Now I'll have reformat it and restore my data from slightly out-dated backups :P. It'll also mean hours and hours on the ( Read more... )

Oh no, I just knew this would happen: of course I couldn't resist watching more Silence. I really should have known better, even before watching the first episode ( Read more... )

Finncon was great! Huge thanks again to all the people who organized the event!!!

I didn't attend that many program items on Saturday, though I had to be there for the last program of the day, since I was one of the panelists :). Saturday's panel was about fanfic, slash in particular, and I felt like I didn’t have that much to say there, but ( Read more... )

The weather for the past couple of weeks has been beautiful: no rain, just hot sunny days. I shouldn't complain, but the temperatures have been around 30 degrees Celsius (c.86F) and I feeling like my brain is melting and the constant heat is starting to be a bit too much ( Read more... )