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Home from the Con
2002-09-03 08:04 pmI was too tired to post yesterday -- collapsed into bed around 10:30. (Of course, I woke up at 4:30, but...) At least the kids are back at school as of this morning [leer]. Even coming at it the next day, however, this is going to be somewhat disjointed: more a bag of memories than a con report.
I made it to one panel (What SF missed about the PC revolution, moderated by Woz and including various PC notables, many of whom I knew from my Homebrew Computer Club days) and a SIG (LJ) besides the three I was on. Didn't get to the art show at all. Spent over $150 with the hucksters, mostly on filk CD's.
Got a couple of excellent buttons:
Most of my time was spent in the filk lounge and the concerts. I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings party-hopping, and crashed early. Could I be getting old?
I managed to get in a little singing, though: there was a kids' concert Sunday morning, shared with David Kushner, and I signed up for a 20-minute mini-concert Sunday afternoon. Both had pretty sparse audiences, but my songs appear to have been well received by those who heard them. I was actually reasonably in practice (which is unusual for me).
Sunday evening Colleen (who was running the filk lounge and doing her usual excellent job as Secret Mommy of Filkdom) cornered T.J. Burnside-Clapp, me, and a few others and started up a filk circle in the lounge, which broke up around 3:15am with most of the Tully and Glenlivet gone. We moved over to the main circle next door, which also started decrepitating about that time. I flaked off at 4-something.
I did manage to get up to the con suite Sunday evening to spend a few minutes at Karen Andersen's 50th Fanniversary party. She was showing off pictures from the 1952 Worldcon. GAAK -- that's the year Colleen was born (and my guitar was built)!
Most of the fun of a Worldcon, however, is the people. Unfortunately I missed Janis Ian, whom I particularly wanted to meet (mainly because of her recent article on music and the internet), but there were plenty of other fen to talk to. Lots of people I only meet at Worldcons, and some I haven't seen in years.
I made it to one panel (What SF missed about the PC revolution, moderated by Woz and including various PC notables, many of whom I knew from my Homebrew Computer Club days) and a SIG (LJ) besides the three I was on. Didn't get to the art show at all. Spent over $150 with the hucksters, mostly on filk CD's.
Got a couple of excellent buttons:
- Emacs is a pretty good operating system, but it needs a better text editor
- Which part of ``Phn'glui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Rlyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn'' didn't you understand?
Most of my time was spent in the filk lounge and the concerts. I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings party-hopping, and crashed early. Could I be getting old?
I managed to get in a little singing, though: there was a kids' concert Sunday morning, shared with David Kushner, and I signed up for a 20-minute mini-concert Sunday afternoon. Both had pretty sparse audiences, but my songs appear to have been well received by those who heard them. I was actually reasonably in practice (which is unusual for me).
Sunday evening Colleen (who was running the filk lounge and doing her usual excellent job as Secret Mommy of Filkdom) cornered T.J. Burnside-Clapp, me, and a few others and started up a filk circle in the lounge, which broke up around 3:15am with most of the Tully and Glenlivet gone. We moved over to the main circle next door, which also started decrepitating about that time. I flaked off at 4-something.
I did manage to get up to the con suite Sunday evening to spend a few minutes at Karen Andersen's 50th Fanniversary party. She was showing off pictures from the 1952 Worldcon. GAAK -- that's the year Colleen was born (and my guitar was built)!
Most of the fun of a Worldcon, however, is the people. Unfortunately I missed Janis Ian, whom I particularly wanted to meet (mainly because of her recent article on music and the internet), but there were plenty of other fen to talk to. Lots of people I only meet at Worldcons, and some I haven't seen in years.
