FurCon geek report

Every con report from a geek should have a geek addendum. Here's mine.
( non-geeks can safely skip this part )

Paper-shuffling for set-list design

Folks like me who work for copier or printer companies will be amused to learn that I used paper, rather than software, to plan the set-list for my concert. (That's not to say that software wouldn't work for it, and in fact I plan to write some.) First I used the back of an envelope (literally -- it was conveniently to hand in the recycle bag) to brainstorm a batch of songs, and then to time them. I pulled the appropriate pages from my songbook, and (here's the new part) made dummy pages for the songs by other people that I haven't transcribed.

From there it was a simple matter to sort the pages into piles by theme, re-arrange each pile to get good variety, then restack them into a set.