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[davidklecha]

Japan wins the bid for the 2007 WorldCon. Um. Yay. I'm sure this is a great treat for the thousands of SF fans who like to eat sushi and the occasional few who may want to buy used female underwear out of vending machines (I swear, I'm not making this up)... and of course, really cool for all the fans in Japan. But not at all cool for me. So. Chicago, Philadelphia, San Jose, Toronto, Boston, Glasgow, LA, Yokohama. I know that a worthwhile rotation is entirely dependent on the motivation level of organizers in the target regions, but...

Yeah, I'm whining, sue me. I hope NASFiC gets proper organization that year. Looks like it could be in St. Louis, which would be cool.

Favorite internet cartoon character Strong Bad was recently spotted in an official Lockheed-Martin graphic. He's since been removed, but the resulting Fark comments thread still has it in all its glory. Fun.

The closer we get to going home, the more uncertain the actual dates of departure get. We were apparently given a cut-off date for using the free KBR laundry service, which usually has a three day turnaround, but who knows how accurate that might be. Apparently, though, despite all these convulsions, our return date to the States and further return to Indiana is pretty solid. We'll see. I am so hating that phrase.

Also, hating this keyboard with its missing 't' and 'g' keys. How do people break these things?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree about WorldCon. They deserve to win since they've been working so hard on the bid. It doesn't mean I'll be going. I would have preferred Columbus. I could afford Columbus.

Now if the Australia bid for 2010 comes through.........

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Australia in 2010 I might be able to save for. That would be cool.

[(Anonymous)]

(Pete)

Then's there's Chicago's bid for 2008. That would be entirely nifty. Although I almost want to see Geneva win that, so they can call it the Geneva Convention.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Your sister-in-law already made that joke.

I almost laughed then, too. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

(Pete)

I'm not joking....
http://www.thegenevaconvention.org

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*

[voxmaille.livejournal.com]

I loved the comment about SB using his fighting powers for good or for awesome.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes. Classic first-SB-e-mail stuff there.

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

Mang, scrap that WorldCon crud. Reschedule for Dragon*Con next year. We're far more fun, the site's static, and you don't have to spend several hundred dollars to be cooped up in a metal tube with strangers for 12hrs ...

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Maybe. The current draw to Dragon*Con for me would be Pete Abrams. I'm not that big of a visual media SF guy, unless it's Stargate SG-1, and so the literary draw will always be to WorldCon/NASFiC. But I might try to go sometime, just to say I've been.

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

There was actually a full SG-1 track this year, and hopefully more next year with Atlantis joining in.

Mind you, there are a shedload of writers who turn up at D*C. I helped liase with Warren Ellis this year, much to my pleasure, and tried to convince folks not to lynch Harlan Ellison ...

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'm a bigger fan of Bujold and Moon and that Kristine Smith person... and that's where they usually, hang, so...

But that won't keep me from making it down there once, I'm sure. Just need to get back from Iraq and start making babies first. Got them priorities, you know ;)

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

If the next Con is anything like the last, there's no reason you can't combine all these activities ...

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

We shall see...

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

Yay, Japan won! There is a world outside of the USA and Western Europe! (Something you already know, of course.)

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

You know, I always thought the SF community was acutely aware that there was a world outside of The West. It's getting there that proves to be a bigger obstacle than awareness, I think.

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

You should have seen of the comments on a mailing list I'm on. It sounded like some people were more likely to go to another planet than to Japan (provided it's a Star Trek planet where all the aliens look like humans with funny noses and speak perfect English).

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Eeeek. That's nuts. I would actually love to go to the Yokohama con if I could afford it.

And I'd love to discover a planet like that. A galaxy full of aliens distinguished only by their interestingly different foreheads would be awesome.

hmmmm

[babeeruth77.livejournal.com]

Glad to see that you are doing ok :)

Also, hating this keyboard with its missing 't' and 'g' keys. How do people break these things?

Kids (people that act like kids too) love to tear stuff up. I am teaching all 9th graders Keyboarding this year. We have only been using computers for just over a week and my kids have already starting stealing mice balls. Just about ready to take the mice off myself and make them figure it out their selves. I have some keyboards that have all of the keys mixed up.

Re: hmmmm

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just dunno. I mean... do they sit here and beat on the computers? Get bored and pry up the keys? What??? You'd think people who carry around deadly weapons and the ammunition that makes them deadly would be more mature than all that.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

>Yeah, I'm whining, sue me. I hope NASFiC gets proper organization >that year. Looks like it could be in St. Louis, which would be cool.

A major con within driving distance. I like those.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

St. Louis NASFiC one year, and a Chicago WorldCon the next? How much more perfecter could it get?

WorldCon Grand Rapids would be nice, but somehow I think it a bit unlikely.