Conventional Birthdays

[gerisullivan]

Eleven years ago today, I was at Minicon 33, putting marshmallow Peeps chicks on Dave Langford's and Mike Ford's joint birthday cake. Dave's expression reflected a suitable sense of horror; Mike knew to expect such things from me.

Even then, I'd been wanting to get to an Eastercon for years. That remains a dream on a rapidly-receding event horizon.

So I must be time-traveling, because as I type this LJ post, I'm watching and listening to Greg Pickersgill interview Eastercon FanGoHs Bill & Mary Burns on LXtra ustream tv live from Eastercon LX in Bradford.

I love living in the future.

ceemage will likely be broadcasting some other times over the weekend, and there's the chat window where those of us who aren't there can kibbutz whether or not we're connected to Bradford at any given moment.

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Wow! Neat stuff.... Many, many thanks for the heads-up.

Stuck at work, but connected.... (Am 50041 for now, will register properly later)

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

All you need to do is type "/nick SteveEtranger" or whatever name you like.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Should have thought to try old IRC syntax....

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

The chat area is really nothing more or less than an IRC channel prettified up.

[johnnyeponymous.livejournal.com]

I'm loving the Eastercon feed, and I'm hoping some of the comical events that I'm planning to perpetrate on Eastercon show up!
Chris

off the clock

[faanboy.livejournal.com]

It was a lot easier to connect with fans in an earlier time zone [Corflu]. What is the diff? Are they 5 hours ahead of Eastern DS Time?

Re: off the clock

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Yep. Eastercon is five hours ahead of us.

ceemage has posted a helpful complete list of times for the Saturday program items he's carrying over on the The Virtual Tucker Hotel LJ community.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Hello all.

Not sure where the right place to announce this is, but I'm sure Geri does ...

The TAFF candidates, being stevegreen and me, intend to appear over the link at 1730 British time (1230 chez Minicon, I think) for half an hour of vigorously trans-Atlantic campaigning. It would be very nice to be able to campaign other than to a squirming void.