2007-05-30

gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Norton)
2007-05-30 10:20 am

Fear my Impressive Wang, and the full list of loot

One thing I forgot in the Baycon report. By late Sunday I was becoming pretty good at using the chair, and spent much of Monday racing through the non-carpeted areas of the hotel shouting "Over caffinated man in wheelchair, make a hole!" Zooomm!! I managed to burn rubber.

Anyway, here is the final ribbon wang:

ExpandExcuse me while I whip this out )

Now, the stuff. I looked around the art show a little but nothing really grabbed me (at least, nothing in my price range grabbed me) so no bidding there. In the dealer's room, I did a lot better.

Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
Zima Blue - Alastair Reynolds (a collection of his short stories. I went back down to the dealers' room to buy this after reading two chapters of Pushing Ice.)
The Tough Guide To Fantasy Land - Diana Wynne Jones (I'd heard so many good things about this, I had to have it. It's great.)
Rainbow's End - Vernor Vinge

I also grabbed the t-shirt mentioned in yesterday's con report, and the incredible vest bought for me by [livejournal.com profile] hellloooonurse. [livejournal.com profile] aurictech gave me a fabulous gift, a silk map of the Balkans dating from the Operation Joint Endeavour days. The box the map comes in has a set of useful phrases in English, French, and Serbian like "Put your hands over your head" and "cease firing".

Finally, I was hanging out in the gaming room Monday chatting with the staff there, and they gave me a copy of Fantasy Imperium. Damn, this book is a time machine to RPGs in the early 1980s. I doubt I'll ever play it, but it should be good for mining ideas.
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Baseball - Scream)
2007-05-30 01:12 pm
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gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Evolution - Darwin)
2007-05-30 08:41 pm
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We must hang together, or we shall surely hang separately

Seen in many places, started by [livejournal.com profile] filkertom

"The recent unpleasantness on LJ has spawned a new community, [livejournal.com profile] fandom_counts, intended to show Six Apart (LJ's owners) exactly how pervasive fandom is, how many fans (in the fannish sense of the word) there are here. It's not intended to be a posting community; just... if you read fanfic, or write it, or support the concept of it, then go here and join. And then post something about it yourself, to tell your FList."


I don't like fanfic. I find most of the overtly sexual stuff sets off my squick alarms at levels not seen in years. I find casual descriptions of non-consensual sex insulting, knowing too many survivors. However, I find mindless censorship even worse. Six Apart has caved in to a woman who is, at best, batshit insane. Six Apart needs to restore all the deleted journals and communities, issue a massive apology to all users, and then learn that any whackjob can claim to be an organization with LEO connections