{"id":462,"date":"2002-08-31T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2002-08-31T23:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=462"},"modified":"2004-11-07T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T23:51:25","slug":"three-days-at-worldcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"three days at Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Thursday: met not one but two bloggers who had been kind enough to link to me, Charlie Stross<\/a> and Anita Rowland<\/a>; as well as Sarah Lawrence without the famous bur<\/a>qa<\/a>. Chatted with Karen Anderson<\/a> about this and that. John<\/a> Hertz<\/a>, as he always does, urged me to return to APA-L. Gotta get a printer hooked up . . . . (I’d urge him to do a blog, if it weren’t hopeless; he turns up his nose even at e-mail.)<\/p>\n

Friday morning: met my first two sex-partners. One gave no sign of recognition, which may be just as well. (And is she saying the same of me?) The other double-took and cried “God in Heaven!”.
\nAlso saw several ChUSFA alums; and friends’ children of whose existence I had not known.<\/p>\n

Friday evening, a thrill out of the blue: Janis Ian<\/a>, whose songs have been a delight and a comfort for my entire adult life, spoke to me!<\/i> I’ll treasure her words always: “Did you see which way they went?”
\n(There seems to be a pattern. Richard Feynman<\/a> spoke to me once, half my life ago, to ask where his son was. What demigod will ask me a similar question in 2023?)<\/p>\n

Saturday, I paused to admire some fan’s hat, because it was just like mine except for the color. He was Dean Gahlon<\/a>; we had met in Minneapa.
\nWe were waiting for the computer folklore panel, in which I got to tell about my one role as a film actor. In ~1970 somebody made a movie for use in schools, whose gist apparently was “there’s a computer terminal in your future.” I got a ten-dollar bill for playing one scene as a boy who wanders into a room where there’s a PLATO IV terminal, is fascinated, and starts poking buttons. I never saw this flick, but over the years met two or three kids who recognized me from it. (Then I grew a beard.)<\/p>\n

Dunno what I’ll do tonight. Party-hunting last night was too stressful; but there’s not much alternative, short of a long ride home on public transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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