Friday

[mbernardi]

To bed at around 23:00, music finished fifteen minutes later.

Woke up Friday morning at 7:50 out by 8:05 walked to the convention center and discovered the Tom Hortons there was a queue around the block! So went to Subway instead and had a breakfast wrap, with egg bacon and salad. The bacon wasn't as crispy as that found further south!


I spent the morning at different readings, first thing Daniel Dern read very short stories and limericks from his Dern Grimm Bedtime Tales, Sharon Lee then read from Carousel Tides, and Steve Miller finished with a snippet from Fledgling.

I then went to Lillian Stuart Carl's reading, only to find myself the only member of the audience, for the first half of the reading. i had a chance to chat and walked with her to the green room after.

GoH Elisabeth Vonarburg then read a couple of short stories from her new collection Blood Out of a Stone, and then two snippet from a novella therein. I'm going to have to try an buy this later. Met Ruth B out side of the dealers rooms and had a chat about our morning, Then got in a bit of typing.

Had a brief chat with Elizabeth C and Ian T before going to the Non Fiction Hugo reading, as I promised Lillian. It was a bit of a curates egg, good in parts. Paul Kincaid really went on too long, as the original one hour program had to expand to 90min to allow all participants to finish. Lillian's early Lois story, and John Scalzi's rant on Star Wars were wonderful though.

I then wended my way to Tom Hortons for chicken noodle soup and roll, coffee, and a donut. Then to the exhibition hall to update my blog and TRY to get online with no luck.

There followed a Open Office presentation, using an eeepc by Tom Easton, on the subject of 3d printing from commercial machines costing tens of thousands of dollars to open source machines costing less than a thousand dollars. The Obligatory Stargate panel followed which I left after an hour to go looking for somewhere to get toothpaste, and cream for insect bites. Then to Basha in the convention centre for chicken / rice / potatoes and salad for dinner, Ian and Elizabeth were eating there and gave it a thumbs up. I went the take out route, rather than the sit down menu as I needed to get to the Faking Paper: ebook panel at 19:00, with James B, Kathryn Sullivan, Alon Ziv and Karen Wester Newton.

I then finally spent an hour in the filk track, getting a Bon Filk! ribbon and listening to songs From the Earth to the Moon. space sons from Sputnik to the shuttle, when I left, as I wanted to hear the live audio performance of a play by James Patrick Kelly. This was a horror story with hints of fantasy, with all the parts by played by 6 "actors" with sound effects. Very good, even if I'd have preferred a more SyFy story line!

And once again I left early for my bed, I timed my walking time without stopping and it was only 7 minutes. Tried to get online at the hostel but failed. Will try in the morning.

Comments

[filkferengi]

You got in a wider variety of experiences & topics than I usually manage. Like lint & cat-hair, listies sort of pop up everywhere, don't they?

And the Lois story & Scalzi rant are summarized where?

[mbernardi]

There were Lint picturs in the Art Show ;-)

The Lois story was read from the Vorkosigan Companion
The Scalzi was in the Hugo winning book.

[filkferengi]

Look at you, all citatious & stuff!

Could you be a bit more specific about the Lois story?

[mbernardi]

Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or Thank You, but I Already Have a Life
on page 121 of the hard cover edition.

[filkferengi]

Thanks!