Extremely early thoughts on the T-Con beta schedule

[mikailborg]

Technicon starts a week from tomorrow, and they've posted an early version of the schedule. I do realize that con schedules are subject to complete revision until late Sunday afternoon, but I couldn't help noticing a few things.

The first thing is that my sweetie and I are involved in one of the Live-Action Role Playing games, and that at least one (possibly both) of the games starts Friday night at 8:00. So we may miss meiran's Women in SF panel :( I've enjoyed representing the Liberated Male there in the past, and I'd be sorry to miss this one.

Another scheduled LARP event (if it's for the one I'm in) may cause me to miss the first half of the Amateur Film panel, which would be a shame. We don't have a submission this year like we were going to, but it's fun to see what others bring and comment on it.

(2 years ago: "Are you sure you want me as a panelist? I haven't actually been involved in anything since Space Rogues - all I can talk about is the several projects I hope to start work on sometime soon."

"Amateur shmamateur, that makes you a Hollywood professional!")

The person I will be playing in the LARP is a major Russian political figure, I haven't decided whether my accent should be "Boris Badenov" or Connery's "Alexsandr Ramius" (i.e. Moscow by way of Scotland).

This year's midnight discussions include the SW Virginia Spiritual Alliance (a pagan group), Polyamory 101, and a BDSM demonstration / panel. Who says science fiction fans never do anything but watch their Trek videos?

Comments

[kittykatya.livejournal.com]

Whee! Well, you two are going to be busy beavers this time round. Be sure to drop by the video room and say "heya". :)

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

It's a date! Besides, you know we'll be there for The Rocky. That reminds me... gotta throw my outfit in the wash this weekend...

Random thought...

[kittykatya.livejournal.com]

So, on your Space Rogues quiz, did you build in a method where you could see which character people are most like? It would be interesting to see how many are you, how many are Mark (which we're finding more and more of), etc.

Re: Random thought...

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

We thought of that Monday - I'll probably try to implement it today. We've already missed a bunch of people of course, but at least we'll see where it goes from there.

People with a high apathy rating seem to get Mark. :) Rain and weren't particularly scientific about the whole thing, we just made up some questions, made up some smart-ass answers to the questions, then assigned certain characters positive or negative weights that seemed appropriate for each answer. Some characters are probably a lot more likely than others *grin*.

Re: Random thought...

[kittykatya.livejournal.com]

Well, we can always backtrack through entries. :)

Hmmmm

[raininva.livejournal.com]

So when Rocky Horror again, Friday or Saturday?

Way too much to do this year and not enough time.

Must bring mucho mucho amounts of caffeine with us... looking at the schedule I think I might get 2 hours or so of sleep.

ohmigod

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

technicon has gotten a teeensy bit more racy since i was there!!! BDSM demo? golly.