{"id":2446,"date":"2008-03-30T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2008-03-30T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T20:56:26","slug":"conbust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Conbust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m writing thanks to the wireless network here at the Bradley International Airport.  We just got done with a lovely little Sci-Fi \/ Fantasy \/ Gaming convention at Smith College &#8211; our second year there, hopefully of many more.  We&#8217;ve commenced the long journey back home, flying for an hour or two, then sitting in another airport for a couple of hours before flying for a few hours more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The con itself was a huge amount of fun, and I got to meet (and re-meet) a batch of &#8216;net luminaries and comics artists.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedevilspanties.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennie Breedon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionablecontent.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeph Jacques<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkcd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Munroe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidnappedbygnomes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Peterson<\/a> and a bunch more that I haven&#8217;t had time to process or acknowledge.  And <b>R<\/b>eal <b>L<\/b>ive <b>P<\/b>ublished <b>A<\/b>uthors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/Lynn.Flewelling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Flewelling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciabriggs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Briggs<\/a>.  We had panels!  Discussions!  Presentations and tips on what <i>not<\/i> to do when making movies!  Lots of caffeine!  And nowhere near enough sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, our plane doesn&#8217;t board for another hour and a half, and I&#8217;ve got <b>no<\/b> problem sleeping sitting in a chair in an airport lounge.  Or, for that matter, on the airplane itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m writing thanks to the wireless network here at the Bradley International Airport. We just got done with a lovely little Sci-Fi \/ Fantasy \/ Gaming convention at Smith College &#8211; our second year there, hopefully of many more. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-smithee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}