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		<title>Penguicon 2008 Overview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, the OLPC Roundtable and Fiction [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 :</p>
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<li>cinammon orange creamsicle</li>
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<p>Sunday, the OLPC Roundtable and Fiction Genome panels I participated on went well; I&#8217;ll put more details in separate entries.  I got to see the liquid nitrogen splashdown in the pool, too.  I was disappointed that I didn&#8217;t actually get to attend anyone else&#8217;s technical panels, but it was important to me to get enough sleep to be alert for my panels.  Maybe the third time (next year) will work out better in that respect.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t make it to the game room except for 5 minutes once, but I did get to play euchre in the con suite Sunday night.  I like it because it&#8217;s a *team* card game.  I haven&#8217;t gotten to play it much since I  left upstate NY (Rochester).  My partner Bob and I did well at first, but Bill and Gerald caught up and beat us eventually.  It was a nice close game.</p>
<p>Penguicon has a very well-stocked consuite for food (fresh vegetables and sandwich makings, not just snack food), but I highly recommend these two restaurants within a short drive of Troy:</p>
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<li>Elie&#8217;s Mediterranean (Birmingham)  - the best of that cuisine I&#8217;ve ever had, in a lovely setting (cobalt blue hanging beads, rollaway glass garage door in the front of the store)</li>
<li>The Inn Season Cafe (Royal Oak) &#8211; vegetarian and vegan; listed in Health Magazine&#8217;s top 6 US independent restaurants this month.</li>
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		<title>Lunacon and Libraries and Geek Spaces, oh my!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state).  The most interesting panel I attended was &#8220;Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction&#8221; &#8212; panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer.   The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the XML OPAC library tie-in with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This weekend I attended <a title="Luuuunacon!" href="http://www.lunacon.org/">Lunacon</a>, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state).  The most interesting panel I attended was &#8220;<a title="Their wiki" href="http://libraries-in-sff.pbwiki.com/">Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction</a>&#8221; &#8212; panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer.   The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the XML OPAC library tie-in with Wordpress (every book gets its own commentable, taggable blog entry), and had met the librarian who coded it. </p>
<p>A close second was &#8220;Geek Spaces&#8221; (organization and display of one&#8217;s books, art, and collectibles), chiefly due to the enthusiasm of an attendee for the game room project I mentioned (leading to much drafting on paper and brainstorming of possibilities). </p>
<p>Alas, the Regency Dance was cancelled.  Fortunately, the waltz and tango classes were great.  What does dance have to do with Knowledge Management?  I&#8217;ll give you a hint:  buzz, bzzz, buzz&#8230;<!--1242bfcfa4bdbe706ea0521009df026d--><!--6fb736d9860bfe8ee1ed043f379ebc94--><!--45395c0a04189ec5c485550909f568a4--></p>
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