CAN-CON 2012: Day One Complete, Day Two Begins

Well, that was a good one. Bought Galaxion Books 1 and 2 from ttallan, got caught up with a dozen or so other friends and friendly acquaintances from around the region, got my memory refreshed on the state of planet-hunting research by a gent from the Carleton U physics department...all in all, an entertaining day.

Also, hopefully today I get the MacBook Pro back from the Apple repair shop. New logic board should have been thoroughly checked out by now, and I plan on dropping back into the downtown between panels to pick the thing up.

(Yes, I know: I could pay as much for a refurbished old MBP as for repairs on the one I've got. What can I say?)

Hoping to start the day at CAN-CON 2012 Day 2 with mcwetboy's slideshow on maps in reality and fiction. Because, cartography in science fiction?

Fun.

No, I'm not kidding.

CAN-CON 2012 Day Two Done...

...and the MBP is home again. I should be migrating the Time Machine'd files back into the thing right now, or at least making sure that the repairs held up before I do that. But, no. One more night with the iBook before I go back to status quo ante...whatever the word in Latin is for "malfunctions".

(For a "dead" language, Latin certainly still sees a lot of action. I'm neither the first nor the last to notice this, right?)

Had fun attending the panels on maps for fantasy novels and on the art of villain-building. Not so much with the transit connections between Bayshore Mall and Bells Corners. It's almost as if - should you want to get to Bells Corners from the Rideau Centre - the direct routes westward are not the ones OC Transpo planners want the passengers to use.

No. It seems as you're encouraged to go southeast to Hurdman Station and then make your way westward along Route 118 on Heron-Baseline.

At least on a Saturday or Sunday.

More as it occurs to mind...