Dammit, I got date-trolled. That happened, alright...in 1970. Check the date on the story...
Today in incandescent fury:
New Jersey judge takes away adopted child from atheist parents!
(Originally seen over at MightyGodKing)
Man, these are great. I've linked to (not displayed) the ones that are of panels I attended on my panel reports, hope you don't mind?
I do have a few (three, to be precise) pics from the ML party on Flickr:
Making Lumiere
I was going to take more, including pics of, you know, people, but then The Man shut us down.
In case any are interested who hadn't seen the earlier mentions or been following it, I've got notes of varying degrees of completeness from 16 of the 18 panels I attended at Anticipation up on my LJ. They can be viewed rather conveniently by just checking my August Archives.
Finally done! Whew!
Enjoy!
Nicole, it was nice to hear your name spoken approximately correctly, though, I'd wager? This POCD (Person of Cajun Descent) certainly enjoyed it the few occasions available...
To anyone interested, I took some notes about most of the Worldcon panels I attended and am posting them to my LJ, a couple a day, for the next several days.
I expect some of you might be interested to see my notes on last night's "conversation" panel between Stross and Krugman. They are available on my LJ. Quite a memorable night!
I see no reason to delay all the partying until Friday...I'm already here, after all! Staying in the Delta...folks looking to get ahold of me should e-mail me at thehumblest.net (put my handle before the at), or perhaps catch me on either Google, AIM, or Y! IM as "tggskwid."
Whee!
My schedule of interesting (to me) and first choice panels up through Saturday is now up on my LJ. I should get done going through Sunday either tonight or tomorrow. Sadly, I'm leaving abysmally early Monday morning and can't make the Fans aren't Slans panel, which I desperately wish I could attend!
Also possibly of interest to the Fluorosphere, there appears to be a respectably sized pub crawl taking shape over on LJ. Looks promising!
Serge, I'll bring my camera. Thanks to Burn events (where one of the only real rules is "No photography of people without permission") I'm used to consulting with my subjects before and after taking photographs of people.
There are always issues with volunteer-run events, of course. Often people commit to things when they have plenty of time on their hands, and then life happens and they don't have enough time anymore. Or they commit to something without any real idea of just how much work they just signed up for. It's just particularly troublesome when these things occur in such prominent areas.
As an example, at a recent event I attended where noise levels at different parts of the event were a known concern, a loud group took it upon itself to relocate from its designated and approved location, and the volunteer framework failed to identify and resolve the problem. As a result, that event space might not be available to us next year, which is truly tragic.
These things happen, but that recent experience makes me particularly wary with regards to such glitches.
Oi, Xopher, TexAnne...I want in on this hanging-out thingamahoozits! I should be easily contactable via various internet-connected widgets...
Thanks for the clarification, Patrick. I would be rather surprised if the oversight were on y'all's end...there seem to have been...more than a few issues with Programming, this year. Meh.
I've only had the time to work out my Thursday and Friday shortlists, so far, but y'all are on several of my first choices, and I'll definitely be seeing you at the Krugman/Stross event...thanks for linking to that, too...I didn't know it had been moved up from 1700 hours!
Teresa was scheduled for a Thu 1900 panel "The World is Large and Strange;" will she not be making it to that one?
Also, is the Tor party closed invite?
Thanks for the re-post, Lee, but to acknowledge the chain of attributions, I got it from Kate Nepveu's recent Readercon panel report here.
I did get a laugh out of reading "Skwid's gender adventure," though; thanks Steve C.!
This six-foot tall (plus some change (which is remarkably close to plus ça change, which I never realized before...must think of a pun to use that...) non-neuro-normal white male just wants to second Elliott's reccy for This Alien Shore. One of my all-time favorites.
As I mentioned, he's just an acquaintance, and a distant one. I think if I were going through what he's going through right now, I would be pretty sick of the deluge of distant acquaintances contacting me for whatever reason. Should I run into him in the future, though, I'll let him know about our little corner of righteous sympathy.
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