Else-If-Then

Category: conference

  • Fun at the PCA

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    Well, a quick update on the conference and I’ll write more later. Before attending anything I met up with David Silver who runs the RCCS and we share coffee and what turned out to be my nearest thing to lunch. David’s even nicer (and much taller 🙂 )in person than online and it was a…

  • More Con. scheduling…

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    And the San Diego Comic Con is July 24-28. Normally I wouldn’t mind missing it; but Tart will be 10 years old and we plan to celebrate. And Connie Willis is a guest. I love her SF. Argh. Once I was so used to living on a shoestring that didn’t know what I’d do if…

  • European Science fiction meet-up

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    Ok, so my going to SFRA 08 is not looking so good, unless I get major grant money. But we’ll see. I and my partner in crime have had several discussions about investing in our own research, so maybe… In any case, I’ve been talking a bit to Sandor Klapcsik (who doesn’t seem to have…

  • Conference scheduling conflicts. Bleah.

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    I don’t travel all that much, and because of that I generally only attend conferences about intersections of tech and culture, so you’d think it would be fairly easy to avoid conflicts… but no. Having just joined the SFRA, I was happy to learn that the 2008 conference, which is held during summers, would be…

  • Brian Massumi at SLSA

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    “Signs of Danger: The Political Ontology of Threat” This was quite a talk. Massumi set out, step by step, the arguments used by Bush and his cronies to justify war in both Afghanistan and Iraq and every other vile act they’ve committed. And as was lucidly explained, the same trick was used every time: a…

  • Back to SLSA — Code Play panel

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    Ok, backing up to talk about what I think was actually the last panel I saw. Speaking were Dene Grigar, Jamie Bono, and, well, I’ll get to that later. I’ll go out of order…Dene spoke about an interactive kinesthetic system she and others are developing that creates a live game space that they are trying…

  • SLSA Saturday evening reception

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    After the last Saturday panels, there was a nice reception at the Portland Museum of Art. I went over with Paweł and some other SFRA folks; once there we found Istvan, Sherryl, Ed Chang and everyone, actually. We continued talking to Jamie Bono about video game cheat codes…I realize now that I forgot to describe…

  • More on SLSA — Zippy the Pinhead and Will Eisner

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    Saturday–another full sleight of panels though I missed the 8:30am strand thanks to the primitive business center at the Holiday Inn. Having been convinced by Paweł and the combined charm of the other SFRA-ers to join, I saved the html form to my computer, edited it, saved it to a usb drive, and figured I…

  • SF panel 1 at SLSA

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    SF panel 1 at SLSA Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver Here we see some post-talk discussion. The panels at SLSA all lasted longer than normal, which was great when they only had 3 people on them. There was ample time for questions and since most panels had at least 8 people attending, this was actually useful.…

  • SLSA 2007 — Thursday Evening plus Friday Panels

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    Ok, time to catch up a little. Thursday evening I went to eat with Anthony (my roomie and former colleague from MIT), Paweł (see previous post) and Christian Ulrik Andersen who was in the audience. We had a pretty good dinner and excellent beer at (I think) 3 Dollar Dewey’s. Everyone was pretty tired (though…