Worldcon: The LiveJournal Annotations

[ckd]

I've posted my Worldcon reports to my regular blog Dirac Angestun Gesept (aka dirac_angestun), but since many of the people I met are LiveJournal users, I figured I'd make a post for LJ with appropriate LJ-user tags, and discussing some events which were semi-private but have since been mentioned on LJ. (This also acts as a pointer to my regular blog for folks who find my LJ but don't look at my bio page.)

Think of it as the annotated NESFA Press edition, or the extended edition with Peter Jackson's commentary, or whatever.


Thursday:

Mary Kay Kare is, of course, marykaykare. The folks I had lunch with and then took to the MIT Museum were trinker, betnoir, and western_slope. I also met seawasp in the ConCourse.

There were about a bajillion folks at the LJ/blog party, but at the moment I remember talking to, in alphabetical order, at least: aiglet, annafdd, autopope, betnoir, chanaleh, cheshyre, curiousangel, feorag, kate_nepveu, lilairen, marykaykare, nancylebov, orzelc, papersky, pnh, rivka, seawasp, stakebait, tammylc, thomasyan, tnh, trinker, veejane, xiphias, and xopher_vh.

If I've left you out (or included you when I saw you elsewhere at the con and not at the LJ party), I apologize; please let me know so I can fix it. I'm sure I'm missing people I actually met!

Friday:

Dealers' room time was usually at elisem's table, often in the presence of papersky. autopope was at the kaffeeklatsch, of course. The dinner run was with curiousangel and rivka. I don't know if any of the other gamers had LJs.

Saturday:

The "Tradeoffs" panel included tnh.

I stopped into the start of a panel to say hello to gnomi before running off to the Fantasy of Manners panel, which itself featured papersky.

The kaffeeklatsch I didn't get signed up for would have been with tnh and pnh. I did meet farwing in the ConCourse, however, so not all was sadness.

papersky did her reading from Farthing, and then the "small private gathering" I referenced was her Saturday tea party, with rivka and curiousangel again, plus ailsaek, rushthatspeaks, gaudior, tammylc, aethereal_girl, dhole, probably some folks I'm forgetting, and jonsinger.

Dinner at Chilli Duck was with rivka and curiousangel yet again, except that unlike Friday's dinner, we ate at the restaurant and combined great conversation with the great food.

seawasp was at the Baen party, where I also met chakaal, though I didn't know she had a LiveJournal at the time.

Sunday:

I signed up for a kaffeeklatsch with mabfan, had a chance to chat with cheshyre, was reminded about the art show by jonsinger, saw farwing again at elisem's table, and caught papersky on yet another panel.

The Tor presentation had pnh presenting, and I also saw kate_nepveu and marykaykare there, though they headed out before I did.

The "another small quiet gathering" was another papersky tea party, which benefitted from my over-buying of cups on the previous day.

While party-hopping, I once again encountered farwing and also finally met del_c, both at the Readercon party, then saw veejane again (though I didn't know it at the time) at the Weird Al sing-along party.

Monday:

Kaffeeklatsch with mabfan and gnomi, then to the "Obsolete High Technology" panel featuring autopope and beamjockey. From there, lunch with beamjockey, and after the closing ceremonies, a short chat with kjc007 and jbsegal.

Aftermath & Thoughts:

As already noted, attendees at feorag's birthday bash included del_c, autopope, and fluffcthulhu.

Comments

[temwwram.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, so you're the other person on the planet who read Wasp. I loved that book, wore out one copy as a kid/teen.
I tried loaning it to some people, with no success.

[ckd]

It's in print from NESFA Press in the omnibus Entities.

I love it; it's one of my favorite books, and seemed like a suitably offbeat/fannish name for my offbeat/fannish blog.