Oh my, Buffy moves to UPN...

Can I say I'm concerned? Yeah...I am.

BBC News | TV AND RADIO | Doctor Who's timeless appeal

Relatively balanced....though it's always hard to tell with the UK stuff...

saying that some fans are a bit...eccentric...is just a fact of life, I figure...

What is SF?

This has been occasionally on the horizon recently, so when I came across this article, I decided to save it...

Computer Features

Amusing. We know this is how computers really are....

Kevin's SF Convention Page

Lots of good links.

Sanctuary: Marillion

I thought I had put this on my site, but it looks like it wasn't there. It's the US distributor for Anoraknophobia. It's got a longer sample of Between You And Me, and I want the whole song. No, I want the whole album.

Though it is a little disturbing that the site got the name of the band wrong in a few places!

Only a couple of weeks. :)

I've been doing more thinking about Minicon a lot this week, after the convention.

I wanted to emphasize some of what I had said earlier that some of it was just me -- based on a lot of other readings I've seen on various on line groups, most of the people there had a fantastic time, and that's important to note. And it took a while for me to understand the convention, since I didn't know very many people there.

Fortunately, in the end I got into one very good long conversation at the end, and I was starting to feel better about things. I had a great conversation with a bunch of people at a panel that started about the X-Files, but then sort of went from Buffy, to fandom and local cons, to how Laurel could get more hits for the cool tvpicks.net. (Like I'm providing any hits from here; no one reads this, I see the logs! :) )

I'm really interested and hopeful that Minicon 37 will start to really improve things, as I think they know what worked well over the past couple of years, but they also want to make it perhaps more relevant to other local science fiction fans, where I felt that this years convention was great if you were in Minn-stf, or were reading rec.arts.sf.fandom, but was more difficult if you weren't.. (And I think if I had been able to stay longer, the convention would have been better for me, as I'd have been able to understand the convention better.) I'm going to be keeping a close eye on what they do, and I really hope that they can revitalize what is, after all, the original Minneapolis SF organization and convention, which I think everyone in the local fan community -- even those of us who aren't Minn-stf, are influenced by.

One of my concerns over at MISFITS is that we're not as well grounded in history, and it's not a sf lit club, it's more of a mixed media thing. I've got a lot of passion for both MISFITS and CONvergence, and it's my home now. But I'd like to see Minn-stf be a little bit better connected to things, as I think there's a lot of misunderstandings in the local sf community.

And if you're not a twin cities science fiction fan, and you're reading this, it really doesn't make a bit of sense, does it? :)

No Doctor Who for Hugh

I'm impressed; Doctor Who news on the front page of Reuters. That's always a good thing. :)

Actually, Hugh Grant was surprisingly good when he played the Doctor in the charity Curse of Fatal Death a couple of years ago, so there are worse choices...

4/18/01: Comerford on Criticism

As someone who occasionally jumps in with my thoughts on something, and who deals with reviews all the time on the MISFITS site, I thought it was an interesting article to skim over....

The Robot With the Mind of an Eel (washingtonpost.com)

I'm a little disturbed by this story....for obvious reasons, really...

I just watched the first episode of the Weakest Link. The game itself is probably better than Millionaire -- but I think when a player takes the walk of shame it's a bit much for them.

And if you don't immediately know the answer, GIVE UP!!! Time seems to be the most valuable resource to me....

Rob Paravonian has an amusing song...

It's more the lyrics than the actual song, but it is so true, so true....

Today's Foxtrot has a fun geeky reference....

Well, I went to Minicon on both Friday and Saturday. (I didn't go on Sunday because of family obligations)

There were a couple of programming items I found interesting, but it felt a little light to me. And if there wasn't a programming item going on I was miserable -- I had nothing to do but wander the third floor, be amused by what was being built with K'Nex (which were really quite cool), or just kind of wander aimlessly in the consuite or at home. I came real close to buying a book to read, but something about that just felt a bit wrong to me at a con -- I can do that at home. Some people clearly did do that though... I didn't want to leave too early during the convention -- and I'm very glad I didn't Saturday night, because I had one good conversation about a whole lot of things. But there was a lot of time where I just didn't know where I fit in there, and I just got my excercise by wandering around the third floor, seeing if there was anyone I knew at the convention.

The art show -- which I only wandered through once -- felt small, it was in the back of the dealers room and a bit out of the way. Lots of the panels were empty.

I'm sure there were many of the people there that had a great time -- but if you weren't already connected with people that were there, it was very difficult to find a good place to hook in -- the people that I saw that were under 40 with the exception of one group were isolated, clearly aliens at the convention. Some of that in my case is probably my fault and personality, but still, there was a time that wasn't the case.

There once was a time when you couldn't take the elevators at Minicon; now, when you did, they were both instantly available and empty.

marillion.com -=- a better way of life

It's been updated for the new album, and I'm very excited.

I'm trying to put some thoughts together on Minicon, but I'm still not sure....