Sillybean

Keynote ruckus at HighEdWeb

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I spent the week attending the HighEdWeb conference. I’ve been a presenter and a member of the programming committee for the last few years. I adore this conference because the…

Sundry updates

ArmadilloCon was delightful (except for the migraine and the insomnia, but those were my issues, not theirs). If you are a fan of Scott Lynch, keep your ears open this week for an announcement that is, as they say,…

iCal/iPhone ArmadilloCon schedule

My congoing buddy Mike is entering this weekend’s ArmadilloCon schedule into an iCalendar. It’s public, so you can subscribe on your phone if you like. He has today’s all the events in there so far, and I’ll take…

Where I was yesterday

The Beau Monde organized two house tours. I spent yesterday knocking around the grounds at Tudor Place:

Which has trees like this:

And today I’m back in the hotel for RWA National. Follow that for live…

Back from HighEdWeb ‘08

I’ve just returned from HighEdWeb ‘08. I came down with a cold the day I left and am just now starting to feel normal, so I was way less bouncy than usual and didn’t attend much of the after-hours…

RWA National and SF cons, compare and contrast

After eleven years of SF conventions, RWA National was … different. Convention neepery follows; run away now if you don’t care about this sort of thing.

For starters, I’m more or less used to being in the minority at…

Hot, tired, and home

Home from RWA National. Later this week, if I can pull my thoughts together, I’ll write a bit about how I think RWA and SF cons could learn from one another. For now, I’m cataloguing all the free…

WFC report, attempt #1

OMG TIRED!!1111!!!1

Parties 3, Steph 0.

I have skulls (temporarily) tattooed on my hand.

Memo to publishers: please cease and desist the practice of dropping authors on their heads. You can’t dislodge the books that way, and…

Several excellent reasons not to stay at the Houston Intercontinental Airport’s Marriott hotel

It occurs to me that I haven’t yet told you all about the wonderful hotel experience Sarah and I had on our way to Rochester. (By the way, most of the presentations are up, along with lots of <a…

Where’s Steph?

I’m in Rochester, NY for the HighEdWebDev conference…. which is now over! I’ve been so busy since I got here that I haven’t had time to post. (That, and the wireless has been pretty flaky.)

This year I was…

WorldCon: Of Parties and the Naming of Drinks

Thursday evening I had a couple of hours to kill on my own before hooking up with the rest of the VP5 posse, so I raided the book dealers, thinking I’d drag my loot back to the hotel and…

WorldCon starts tomorrow. I am tired.

I took the entire week off, even though I’m not flying out to L.A. until tomorrow, so I could take care of lots of little crap that’s been piling up.

Crap vanquished. Whee! Also cleaned off the DVR…

Texas convention calendar

I’m putting together a public Google calendar for SF cons in Texas. If I’ve missed one, let me know and I’ll add it.

Got Con

I’m at ConDFW. At the moment I’m in a somewhat lifeless panel, but it’s been a good, relaxing con so far — just what I needed. Work has been stressful, in case my continued absence here didn’t clue you in.…

In which your hostess makes a brief appearance

ConDFW was a lot of fun but has left me a little worn out and, of course, way behind on a lot of things that needed doing. I avoided the illness that was steadily felling the guests, but now I’m…