Baycon: Choose Your Own Adventure!
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pentaclemoon and Fantasy Guest of Honor dpaxson, Yrs Truly has been invited as a guest to this year's Baycon.
Programming didn't put me on the schedule, and didn't tell me about this until the schedule was off at the printers'. While you, I, and any veteran congoer all know that the Program is Not Written in Stone until the Con, and Really Not Even Then, it's still pretty firm clay off at the kiln. Granted, I could have idled about as a relative freeloader, but I'd rather pay my own way, and here I had license to do so on my own hook, as 'twere.
Thus did I write to Programming, with great lamentation:
"Why is this? For lo, I filled out your questionnaire and bathed and everything!"
And lo, Programming did reply:
"Er. Oops. Well, I've got you scheduled for 'anywheredpaxson is', although not officially published that way. Um, just add anything you like."
"Really? I wouldn't be a screaming meteor of grotesque imposition?"
"Nope. Go for it."
"Isn't the program already at the printer?"
"We already have a fairly significant errata sheet, so adding a few more lines is no issue. :)"
Hearing some of whatdpaxson, grendel_todd, and jon_decles are going though makes me wonder if it's not less an "errata sheet" and more an "errata booklet". But it is also so that the Glorious Floating ConCom have managed more with less in the past, so while discombobulation reigns just now, I've no doubt it will Somehow All Fall Together by the con, rather like watching a train wreck in reverse.
So. The head of Programming told me to roll my own program...
So I did.
Friday:
17:30 - Westria -- getting here from work will be an interesting logistical challenge, oh yes.
20:00 - Meet the Guests
Saturday:
11:30 - Every OS Sucks -- This panel had no women on it. That ain't right! Note to Self: Pack "got root?" t-shirt.
16:00 - Religion and Science: Mutually Exclusive? -- Count me on the "are not!" side. Quelle surprise.
Sunday:
14:30 - Geek of My Dreams -- What do geeks find attractive? Will we remember to mention hygeine? Fast poll: should I show up to this one in my corset? Discuss.
Monday:
13:00 - ITTS -- The Institute for Trans-Temporal Studies is the metaversal plot of sundry of Greyhaven's Elder Days. Field operatives may hail from anywhere, anywhen, anyverse. I shall be reporting on my recent field work in the land of Westria.
pentaclemoon and Fantasy Guest of Honor dpaxson, Yrs Truly has been invited as a guest to this year's Baycon.Programming didn't put me on the schedule, and didn't tell me about this until the schedule was off at the printers'. While you, I, and any veteran congoer all know that the Program is Not Written in Stone until the Con, and Really Not Even Then, it's still pretty firm clay off at the kiln. Granted, I could have idled about as a relative freeloader, but I'd rather pay my own way, and here I had license to do so on my own hook, as 'twere.
Thus did I write to Programming, with great lamentation:
"Why is this? For lo, I filled out your questionnaire and bathed and everything!"
And lo, Programming did reply:
"Er. Oops. Well, I've got you scheduled for 'anywhere
dpaxson is', although not officially published that way. Um, just add anything you like.""Really? I wouldn't be a screaming meteor of grotesque imposition?"
"Nope. Go for it."
"Isn't the program already at the printer?"
"We already have a fairly significant errata sheet, so adding a few more lines is no issue. :)"
Hearing some of what
dpaxson, grendel_todd, and jon_decles are going though makes me wonder if it's not less an "errata sheet" and more an "errata booklet". But it is also so that the Glorious Floating ConCom have managed more with less in the past, so while discombobulation reigns just now, I've no doubt it will Somehow All Fall Together by the con, rather like watching a train wreck in reverse.So. The head of Programming told me to roll my own program...
So I did.
Friday:
17:30 - Westria -- getting here from work will be an interesting logistical challenge, oh yes.
20:00 - Meet the Guests
Saturday:
11:30 - Every OS Sucks -- This panel had no women on it. That ain't right! Note to Self: Pack "got root?" t-shirt.
16:00 - Religion and Science: Mutually Exclusive? -- Count me on the "are not!" side. Quelle surprise.
Sunday:
14:30 - Geek of My Dreams -- What do geeks find attractive? Will we remember to mention hygeine? Fast poll: should I show up to this one in my corset? Discuss.
Monday:
13:00 - ITTS -- The Institute for Trans-Temporal Studies is the metaversal plot of sundry of Greyhaven's Elder Days. Field operatives may hail from anywhere, anywhen, anyverse. I shall be reporting on my recent field work in the land of Westria.
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Date: 2007-05-22 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-22 02:32 am (UTC)*sulk*
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-05-22 02:57 am (UTC)On the other hand, I got it hell of *cheap* at the Scottish Festival in Long Beach, from the artisan's clearance rack, and it served me well at
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Date: 2007-05-22 05:20 pm (UTC)Made mine myself, so it really really fits properly. Three layers: the outer of black cotton brocade, the inner of nice soft muslin, and the middle of near-canvas duck cloth.
Oh, and the steel.
Was quite inexpensive that way. 8-)
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2007-05-22 08:18 pm (UTC)I remember that adventure....
But you are right, it turned out just lovely.
Sparrow
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Date: 2007-05-22 08:21 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie