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Upcoming Conventions
It looks as though I will be on the program at Millennicon, in Cincinnati March 20-22, which I will go to having just returned from attending the Human Systems Integration Symposium in Maryland for work.
I might also be attending Ad Astra March 27-29, but I'm not quite decided. Toronto is a long way from Dayton and I will have traveled a lot the previous week. It pretty much depends on what further travel I do for work in March.
In May (1-3) I am planning to be at Penguicon 7.0, where we will all have the opportunity to hang with my fellow sci-foo-er Jane McGonigal and supposedly meet Wil Wheaton (I'll believe it when I see it ;) ). Oh, and Spider Robinson will be there, which will be great too. Now the question is whether or not they'll have a fireplace with a chalk line before it and glasses to throw in it...
After Penguicon I don't have any conventions planned until August 6-10, when I will be serving as a Guest of Honor Liaison for Anticipation, the next World Science Fiction Convention, in Montreal. A group of us look to be throwing a "Michigan Conventions" party at Anticipation, so let me know if you want to help with that.
Speaking of Worldcons, as Scalzi has mentioned and many others have posted, the Seattle bid for the 2011 Worldcon has withdrawn due to not being able to secure their preferred facilities. This leaves the only other serious bid for 2011, Reno in 2011, a not-necessarily-sure-but-pretty-damn-likely bet for the Worldcon hosts that year. I for one am pleased. I've been to Seattle a number of times but I've never been to Reno, and Kevin Standlee has pretty much convinced me I need to check out the train museum there. Furthermore I met a number of people at the 2007 Smofcon from the Reno bid who impressed me a lot, which combined with the long-time friends I have on the bid leaves me little doubt that a) the worldcon in Reno is going to be a lot of fun and b) I'm likely going to not only attend but also help run the thing. (Like you do.)
Well, like you do if you're me.
I've run down the list of Things I've done Before on Cons and suspect that for Reno I might try to get involved with the Art Show, since I have not yet worked one of those, and I have Ideas for how it should integrate with the web site...
Post Anticipation I am hoping to attend the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, in San Antonio, Texas, October 19-23. Again depending on work travel, there's a chance I will make it to the World Fantasy convention in San Jose October 29-Nov 1, but that's impossible to predict at this time.
ETA: I forgot to mention I'm thinking of going to Midwestcon June 26-29th in Cincinnati. And smofcon December 4-6 in Austin.
I might also be attending Ad Astra March 27-29, but I'm not quite decided. Toronto is a long way from Dayton and I will have traveled a lot the previous week. It pretty much depends on what further travel I do for work in March.
In May (1-3) I am planning to be at Penguicon 7.0, where we will all have the opportunity to hang with my fellow sci-foo-er Jane McGonigal and supposedly meet Wil Wheaton (I'll believe it when I see it ;) ). Oh, and Spider Robinson will be there, which will be great too. Now the question is whether or not they'll have a fireplace with a chalk line before it and glasses to throw in it...
After Penguicon I don't have any conventions planned until August 6-10, when I will be serving as a Guest of Honor Liaison for Anticipation, the next World Science Fiction Convention, in Montreal. A group of us look to be throwing a "Michigan Conventions" party at Anticipation, so let me know if you want to help with that.
Speaking of Worldcons, as Scalzi has mentioned and many others have posted, the Seattle bid for the 2011 Worldcon has withdrawn due to not being able to secure their preferred facilities. This leaves the only other serious bid for 2011, Reno in 2011, a not-necessarily-sure-but-pretty-damn-likely bet for the Worldcon hosts that year. I for one am pleased. I've been to Seattle a number of times but I've never been to Reno, and Kevin Standlee has pretty much convinced me I need to check out the train museum there. Furthermore I met a number of people at the 2007 Smofcon from the Reno bid who impressed me a lot, which combined with the long-time friends I have on the bid leaves me little doubt that a) the worldcon in Reno is going to be a lot of fun and b) I'm likely going to not only attend but also help run the thing. (Like you do.)
Well, like you do if you're me.
I've run down the list of Things I've done Before on Cons and suspect that for Reno I might try to get involved with the Art Show, since I have not yet worked one of those, and I have Ideas for how it should integrate with the web site...
Post Anticipation I am hoping to attend the annual meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, in San Antonio, Texas, October 19-23. Again depending on work travel, there's a chance I will make it to the World Fantasy convention in San Jose October 29-Nov 1, but that's impossible to predict at this time.
ETA: I forgot to mention I'm thinking of going to Midwestcon June 26-29th in Cincinnati. And smofcon December 4-6 in Austin.
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What's up with people calling OHIO the "Midwest"? I hear it on the weather station on TV, on the radios, on the national news... but the place is in the freaking Eastern 25% of the country, fa gosh sakes! It's not even in the middle of the nation, let alone in the middle of the WEST! IT'S NOT EVEN IN THE EASTERN WEST!!! ;-D
I mean, hah - sure - you coulda got away with calling it the "midwest" before the first steamboat went up the Yellowstone or the first Conestoga left St Louis - but after that time period? It's just a part of that lost FLAT land between the Appalachians and Chicago.
Much as I'd hate to see Missouri considered as part of the EAST, today the Midwest should be Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming, fa gosh sakes! Who should I talk to to get this corrected, ya think? Maybe you could bring the subject up at one of those Cons you go to? Like make it a topic for a panel or something? :-)
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Where are you from, again?
While the definition of the "Midwest" may not seem right from a purely geographic perspective, it makes sense when you consider the population distribution and cultural shift. Many of the states immediately west of the midwest are so generally empty of people that they don't form as much cultural landscape as other states. Plus there is a "west" that comes before you get to the west coast, whereas that's not really true in the other direction. There's sort of the East (Coast), the Midwest, the West, and the West Coast. And the South, of course.
It's not necessarily flat in the midwest, either. Sure we don't (generally) have mountains, but we have rolling hills and lakes and rivers cut by glaciers and glacial melt. It's not nearly so flat as, say, the dakotas or Eastern Montana.
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Remember, Northwestern University is just north of Chicago, Illinois...
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Chaz