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Steampunk wheelchair
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From Windycon.
Windycon on Saturday
mia_mcdavid and I are continuing to have a great time at Windycon. The theme of the convention is Steampunk
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Working in space
We saw a great presentation about the recent mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The speaker was Christian Ready, who has been a regular and popular guest at Windycon for many years. This latest mission has a lot of tasks that are easy to relate to, e.g.
- Removing screws without dropping and losing them.
- Stuck bolts
- Replacing circuit boards.
- Changing batteries
The point was that even simple tasks are much harder in space.
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Windycon
Mia and I are again at Windycon, a Chicagoland science fiction convention. We had a fast and easy drive down. We had dinner with some old friends from local fandom.
The convention looks good. Once again, we were impressed by the Dealers’ Room. Though Windycon is much smaller than Convergence, the biggest SF event in Minnesota, there are many more booksellers here. There is also excellent science programming. It is our idea of what a con should be.
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Convention Game
Pin the Disease to Jenny McCarthy
A humorous look at a very serious issue.
From Bug Girl‘s entertaining Con Report.
For the record: mia_mcdavid and I have two children. Both are on the autistic spectrum. T is fully autistic (non-verbal) and J has Asperger’s Syndrome. Both received all the usual childhood vaccinations. We have no regrets about this.
Convergence 2009
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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At Convergence
mia_mcdavid and I are at Convergence, the biggest of the local science fiction conventions. We are having a good time. The programming seems more interesting (for me, anyway) than in some previous years.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 