I haven’t even written up Con of the North, Minicon is this weekend, David Ladyman is kickstarting a new version of Star Traders, and games with the weekly group deserve to be written up… But there are big changes going … Continue reading
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About a month ago, there was a tiny little con here in the Twin Cities called JOFCon. “JOF” stands for “journeyfen of fandom”. It’s a knowing take-off of the term “SMOF”, for “Secret Masters of Fandom”. SMOFs are (at least … Continue reading
Minicon 50 was overall very good. There were more than twice the usual number of members, which meant that it had a very lively feeling. Even though the total membership was about the same as WisCon, it didn’t feel as … Continue reading
I managed to get a fair amount of actual gaming done at and around Minicon 50: Star Traders: The aforementioned pre-con game. It was nice to have this before the game, because as I mentioned, it seems like it’s getting … Continue reading
This one was apparently opposite some very popular panels; the audience was rather small. It was therefore a missed opportunity to spread enjoyment of the amazing stuff Iain Banks wrote. But the audience was also composed mostly of people who … Continue reading
I’ve been running this quite a bit at recent cons. It’s a lot of fun. We ended up with a world with some pretty weird physics: light moves in discrete packets, sound is faster than light, gravity is bouncy and … Continue reading
Now that it’s nearly a month after Minicon, and there have even been other cons since then, I should probably start writing things up a bit more briefly, lest I never get these done. Work continues to be busy, but … Continue reading
Minicon started well before the con itself for me. I’m on the programming staff, and have been for about the past decade, so I was partly involved in thinking up the panels and other events. I’ve also been doing the … Continue reading
Minicon 50 was mostly great, with lots of good panels, gaming and generally hanging out with cool people. I’m now mostly exhausted. Still catching up on sleep, so catching up here will have to wait a few days. I have … Continue reading
As so often seems to be the case, with all of Con of the North written up, I already have another con coming. Minicon 50 is this weekend. This isn’t the 50th anniversary of Minicon, because in early years the … Continue reading