This weekend was the first annual GeekGirlCon, a new convention in Seattle dedicated specifically to the girls and women of geekdom. And even though I’m not a geek girl, I decided to spend a day there on Saturday. (After all, I go to Dragon*Con every year despite not being large, green, and scaly…) And sure [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Geek’
A Day at GeekGirlCon
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, GeekGirlCon on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Halcyon Dragon*Con Days (or Was That “Daze”)
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Photos on September 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard to believe this was my third year at Con. I can distinctly remember the night over two years ago, when I was talking with some friends about this awesome-sounding thing called Dragon*Con, and decided to drive down to Atlanta pretty much on a whim and check it out. Since then, it’s been a [...]
What Happens in Reno, Gets Blogged
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, Networking, WorldCon on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I went to the World Science Fiction Convention, aka WorldCon, in Reno, Nevada. Most cons are held each year at the same venue in the same city, but WorldCon moves to a new city each year. It’s a bit like the Olympics, in that groups from potential host cities put together bids, which [...]
Orycon Report: Portland, Panels, and Puns
Posted in Travel, tagged Cons, Geek, Panels on November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This weekend I drove about 3 hours south to Portland to attend Orycon, a small-ish science fiction con of around 2,000 people. It felt like a good-sized con, although I’ve come to realize that what makes a con feel “big” or “small” is not so much the number of attendees, but the ratio between the [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 10: Apartment-Hunter’s Block
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Geek, NaNoWriMo, Orycon, Seattle on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m no longer ahead of where I need to be in word count– mainly because I’ve devoted almost all of my free time over the last few days to finding a Seattle apartment. I only have about two and a half weeks left in the place I’m currently staying, so needless to say, this has [...]
Dragon*Con Part 4: An Affirmation of Insanity
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek on September 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When I woke up on Monday (hangover-free, although certainly not fatigue-free), my “costume” was still mostly intact, so after re-attaching the ear I slept on, I headed out to Monday panels. I wanted to squeeze what remaining drops of Dragon*Con essence I could out of the day before embarking on the 6-hour drive back to [...]
Dragon*Con Part 3: No Sleep ’til Labor Day
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I met Dan Wells at Mary Robinette Kowal’s reading, I was carrying a hardcover copy of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I had planned to get it autographed earlier in the day, but missed the signing, so the title page was still sadly devoid of a signature. When Dan saw it, he immediately asked if [...]
Dragon*Con Part 2: Networking for Nerds
Posted in Writing, tagged Brandon Sanderson, Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Networking on September 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In my previous post, I mentioned the two sides of Dragon*Con: on the one hand, there’s the uber-science fiction convention with a dealer’s room, hundreds of panels and discussions, art galleries, and all sorts of other craziness. On the other hand, there’s the party. Nerdy Gras, as it has become known. But what they have [...]
Dragon*Con Part 1: Geeks Unleashed
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Report on September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For those who aren’t familiar, Dragon*Con is a a convention in Atlanta that gets attended by, depending on who you ask, between 40,000 and 60,000 people. At its roots it’s a science fiction and fantasy convention, but it’s grown to be much more than that. Dragon*Con is, to put it simply, where geeks go to [...]
My Entry in the Wheaton/Scalzi Fanfic Contest
Posted in Writing, tagged Contests, Fanfiction, Geek on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this post from last month, I mentioned that Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi have been holding a fanfiction contest, in which the goal is to describe what the heck is going on in the picture on the right. Well, the contest is over, and my entry is among over 350 others that got submitted. [...]
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