Swancon 2013

Small or big, any con with four guests of honour ends up with lots of interesting programming items. But small ones, like Swancon, have the advantage: very few scheduling conflicts! I will not have to choose between Charlie Stross, John Birmingham, Gail Simone and Lucy Sussex.

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Cons at hotels

Croatian SF conventions are many and varied. They can be small, 100 to 350 people, and they can be large, like last year’s Kontakt with 1300 people. But none of them are held in hotels.

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Sweating the transfer

Even tough I am wholly unafraid of flying, I still turn into a nervous wreck when  travelling. Flying is enjoyable for me. All the parts that freak the shit out of people – the take off, the landing, the occasional turbulence and the falling free feeling – are worlds of fun.

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Amanda Palmer’s “The Art of Asking” at TED

Being a freak in real life myself and having a very annoying talent in *not* getting paid for the work I do, this speech really shook me up. Not only because recently – again! – I did some work that ended up being unpaid (living in Croatia sucks!) but also because the nature of my […]

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“Fuck it, I’m gonna go to Australia!”

Because I won the GUFF race! YAAAAAAY!    

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