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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Geek’
Dragon*Con Part 1: Geeks Unleashed
Posted in Life, tagged Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Report on September 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
The Little Novel That Could
Posted in Writing, tagged Contests, Fanfiction, Geek, Novel on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My novel (working title: “In a Land of Wind and Sky”) has gone through a series of fitful starts and stops over the past few months. My muse has been sidetracked by various short stories that I’ve been writing instead, but the novel stays stuck in my head, poking at me occasionally, like an itch [...]
ConCarolinas ReCap
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged ConCarolinas, Cons, Geek, Photos, Road Trip on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday I drove to Charlotte to check out ConCarolinas. Several notable authors were there, including Jerry Pournelle and John Ringo, and I also wanted a chance to try out my birthday present to myself, a Canon Rebel T1i DSLR Camera. If I want to submit any travel writing to magazines or websites that might [...]
Geek Moment: Going Fanboy on Jonathan Coulton
Posted in Life, tagged Geek, random on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Quick note: this weekend I got to see Jonathan Coulton perform. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, he’s a staple of geek culture: he wrote the ending song of the extremely popular video game Portal, and has written numerous songs, most of which involve robots, zombies, or mad scientists. Or various permutations of [...]
Droids: Not Just For Star Wars Anymore
Posted in Life, tagged Geek on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got me a new toy this weekend: my first-ever smartphone, a Motorola Droid. It’s been a while since I’ve bought a new gadget to geek out on… in fact, I usually avoid buying new technology. My laptop is over two years old, my most advanced gaming console is a PS2, and my TV is [...]
Dragon*Con Report
Posted in Travel, tagged Adam Savage, Cons, DragonCon, Geek, Photos, Road Trip, Unhealthy food on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I got back on Monday evening from my first Dragon*Con, and it was quite a weekend. In order to see and do everything, you’d need to be able to be in… oh, I’d say 30 places at once. Saturday I was at the con from 8 am to past midnight, Sunday I was there from [...]
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