It Happened to Me

Concert of the year, part 1

(It's a busy day, so today's entries will come out in snippets. Check back regularly!) Forget SARStock. Accordion City's concert…

23 years ago

Cory’s sci-fi convention pictures

Cory Doctorow has ten pages of photos from Torcon (and even a couple from the advance screening of the Lord…

23 years ago

Leeloo break [updated]

Corrections to this entry appear at the end of this article in red, while the entry has been left as…

23 years ago

Scenes from a sci-fi convention 2: "Who let the mundane in?"

On Friday night, after helping Eric Raymond score some peanut butter cookies, a guy who looked sort of familiar approached…

23 years ago

Scenes from a sci-fi convention 1: I discover ESR’s weakness

I decided to bike over to the Royal York last night (only non-locals refer to it as the Fairmont Royal…

23 years ago

You got it goin’ on, Elder Dogg!

I had this exact same conversation with some Mormons just a couple of weeks back. I think I also said…

23 years ago

"It’s the post-electrical age!", part 3

Here are three videos from the DECONISM talk that I mentioned in this entry from a couple of weeks ago.…

23 years ago

Scenes from a stag party

While I'm writing up the story of the stag (and figuring out how the photo album feature in Blogware works…

23 years ago

Worst Date Ever, part 4

Welcome to part 4! If you missed the previous entries: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3a Part 3b This is…

23 years ago

Worst Date Ever, part 3a

(In case you haven't read them yet, here are part 1 and part 2 of this story.) Work has kept…

23 years ago