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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
MarsCon 2007 is off to a good start with lots of good panels guests and parties! After missing the first panels on Friday and Opening Ceremonies due to a luggage mishap, it was full party mode on the first evening of the con.
The IKV Rakehell has put on a ...
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
Silicon is over, back from vacation, on normal work hours. No more excuses. Time to get the Silicon 2006 photos posted.
As noted in my earlier post during the run of the con, Silicon 2006 was a well attended mid-sized con, with somewhere around 700 fans in attendance.
161k JPEGDan ...
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
The problem with traveling sans computer, it makes it difficult to report on the fun stuff going on.
I am at the Silicon 2006 Internet Cafe.
Silicon is beginning to wind down, this being the third and final day of the con. It's been a real experience coming back to the ...
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
The Vintage Band Music Festival played host to a "Battle of the Bands" between the Wisconsin 1st Brigade Band and the 26th North Carolina Regiment Band at River Front. The setting was where the Cannon River cuts through downtown Northfield with the bands playing on opposing banks of the ...
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
The Brass Works perfomred three lively dance sets at Northfield's National Guard Armory. Although sparsely attended due to the heat and lack of air conditioning at the Armory, those in attendance danced to 19th century waltzes and polkas. The Brass works opened the dance with an 1864 rendition ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Northfield is playing host to the Vintage Band Music Festval. The innaugural event kicked off with a concert at Bridge Square by the San Francisco Brass Works. The Brass Works is a well known band in the Bay Area for its performances at the Gaskell's Victorian Ball (which ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Convergence 2006 kicked off with a blast and never slowed down. There were five ships from the Cold Death Quadrant, and Klingons came from points further to see Robert O'Reilly (Gowron) and J.G. Hertzler (Martok), this year's Guests of Honor. And they were well worth the effort to ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
I am back from Convergence, and getting back to something resembling normal. Between the LMH and myself, we have something like 6GB of photos and video to process. That's a lot!
Convergence was a blast. The Guests of Honor were shown a great time and all want to come ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Now that I've spent a good chunk of the last couple of days playing with windows Movie Maker and have figured out how to include it on my website, I thought I should share the fruits of my labor.
During the run of BayCon, I indoctrinated one of the Klingons, Pete, ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
This is my final recap for BayCon 2006, and has a plethora of photos.
It is hard to believe that it has been six years since my last BayCon. When I moved to Minnesota at the beginning of 2001, it was with the expectations I would return for BayCon on ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
This is the last report I will file before I sit down to put together the photo galley of the event.
We managed to get up a little early this time, which is a bit of a shock. This meant we were able to go out for breakfast and have ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
Baycon 2006 day 3 is complete, and a long day it was.
We got a bit of a late start, so I missed the 10 AM panel I was interested in. Oh well. Come to think of it, I missed most of the panels I was interested in.
Sue and ...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The second day of BayCon 2006 has ended and it is now time to prepare for day 3.
Some of the action on Saturday.
Trivia for Chocolate was a moderately attended game event where the trivia master awarded chocolate to the first person to get the correct answer. The questions ranged ...
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
BayCon 2006 is running full steam. Here are a few of the highlights for day one.
The Economics of Interstellar War was a science panel/discussion on how feasible galactic warfare is. On the panel were Jerry Pournelle and David Freidman with Philip Gust moderating.
The first question was: Is Interstellar ...
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Marscon 2006 Final Report
I know this has been a bit delayed, however, it is FINALLY up. Apologies for the delay, however, between new-daddyhood and other commitments, time has been in short supply.
Sqotty MacKlingon in the Rakehell Party Room.
Okay, I have to say something about the shirt I am wearing. ...
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
MarsCon Day 2 was as fun as Friday. Actually, more so as there was a full day of panels.
We got a late start, which is not surprising with a five-month old in tow, and I was surprised that we found a parking spot very close to the hotel entrance. Even ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
MarsCon 2006 has arrived with a bang! Or, at least a bump in the night as that is the cons theme this year.
Sue and I arrived, with our adorable little darling, kind of late on Friday, as we fist spent the day at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show. It ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
What a day..I just got home from spending the late afternoon and evening at th Dakota County Fair. This is the first year I have been able to make it out there, and I had a good time down there.
There was a demonstration of early fire fighting techniques...we're talking late ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
I arrived at Starring Lake Park in Eden Prairie for the AM 1280 "The Patriot" picnic and live broadcast at around 10:30 a.m. The weather was about as perfect as you could hope for; sunny, warm, with just enough breeze to keep people from overheating.
The Patriot began their ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
It was a very hot and humid day for going out to the Wings of the North Air Expo in Eden Prairie, however, I made the effort anyway, and it was well worth the effort. Not like it was really that great an effort.
Please note, getting good pictures was ...
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