watervole | Concussion and Eastercon thoughts

Concussion was a good con. I didn't see much of it because I was mostly doing things for

orbital_2008 but I enjoyed the bits I got to (with the exception of the George Hay lecture - which is normally a very good lecture on science, but this year was about Victorian attitudes towards science and not really my cup of tea).

I'd intended to go sight seeing with Henry afterwards, but we both fell ill. Henry spent a large chunk of Tuesday in bed and I collapsed on Wednesday.

I'm still not fully recovered even now, so memories are more of a random selection of snapshots than a proper con report.

Being on a fantastic panel about the singularity vs the environment, which covered a wonderful range of topics and was enjoyed by the audience (several of them commented afterwards). It was a real joy for me to be on a non-media panel and particularly one that touched on so many of my areas of interest.

The bid session. Eddie and Chris's great presentation, the applause when we announced our guests, the buzz from feeling that peple really want us to run this event.

(INcreasing irritation at LJ increasing the width of this box every few seconds so that it's getting impossible to read all that I've written so far!)

The fantastic job done by Fifitrix and everyone else working on the con table.

The great posters that Steve Rogerson got for us (credit Lisa Konrad for the art on several of them).

The smile on Vince's face at the end of the weekend. When your treasurer is smiling, then you know you're on the curve (or slightly above it) and Orbital is off to a good start membership-wise.

The dead dog party - time to fully relax - no memberships to sell, no con to promote. Just happily drifting around the room, chatting to all and sundry, playing with poi.

I'd write a bit more (wrists permitting) but this screeen width thing is really starting to annoy me. A quarter of my text is now off-screen...