Back from TAM and Vacation

Posted on the July 8th, 2008 under Events by admin

Ok, so we got home almost 2 weeks ago, but I have been recovering from the impressive amount of fun and go-go-go we did for many days out in Vegas, and then tripping around the Southwest of the USA.

First stop was out in Vegas for The Amazing Meeting 6 at the Fabulous Flamingo on the strip. The event was, as advertised, ‘Amazing’. Sadly, both me and Swoopy were SO busy we only made it to about 2.5 or less events in the main room. But, what we DID see was really cool. We did get to see many of the presentations on the last day, which are the call for papers.

After TAM, we drove down to the Grand Canyon, and then onto to Sedona for some sight seeing and shopping and other hiking like stuff. Lots of very cool pictures were taken during that leg of the vacation.

Now, we are back at home, you can check out our latest episode of Skepticality to hear a couple cool interviews we did with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Adam from the Mythbusters. Many more cool interviews to follow in the next couple weeks. :)

So, what is next? Well, the debut year of Skeptrack at Dragon*Con! If you didn’t make it to TAM, definitely come for Skeptrack 2008! You should just look at the schedule and the big guests who are coming to entertain and enlighten the crowd this year! http://www.skeptrack.org/current_schedule_2008.html

Ok, more later, and I’ll try not to only post a blog entry every 4 months from now on!

Life in General

Posted on the February 7th, 2008 under Events,Life,Updates by admin

So, Dragon*Con planning is already happening. I just put up the start of the track schedule for Podcasting today at the new website: http://www.dragon-pod.com/ Go there and join if you want to help form the schedule and help suggest events and panels. Also, we are taking people who want to help out with the track as staff volunteers. In the message boards there is more information about how to do that and what we need from you. 

This year, Dragon*Con is growing at an alarming rate! The convention is going to be a FOUR hotel convention, so it now engulfs the Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, AND the Sheridan!  Hotel rooms are booking up FAST, the Mariott is already sold out, the Hyatt has a ‘few’ rooms left, and the Hilton and Sheredon both have a some rooms left. If you can’t get into any of the main hotels, try some of the ‘secondary’ hotels. One of the ones that is VERY close and within walking distance is the Travelodge on Courtland Street, sometimes they will still have rooms, and it is a VERY close hotel, and quite cheap. The rest are all listed on the Dragon*Con main website: http://www.dragoncon.org/ Hope to see a bunch of you there!

I’ll post here a lot more once I get my life a bit more ‘together’ which might be sometime after TAM 6. Which is another amazing convention that me and  Swoopy will both be at, and we are doing a presentation this year at! :)