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Penguicon 2011

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

I enjoyed what I got to do at Penguicon this year (this weekend just past), including Technical: Giving a technical presentation: There were about 12 attendees for my Continuous Integration talk Sunday morning (see description in comments). There were a few sysadmin types; most were developers, most from small ...

Penguicon 2008 Overview

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night.   From midnight until past 2 am :  mint irish cream triple chocolate cinammon orange creamsicle vanilla raspberry another chocolate soda slushies Sunday, ...

Lunacon and Libraries and Geek Spaces, oh my!

Monday, March 19th, 2007

This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state).  The most interesting panel I attended was "Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction" -- panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer.   The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the ...