SMOFCon Day 2: Panels and Seminars
Dec. 2nd, 2023 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeI have heard no news about Filthy Pierre after his fall yesterday. We think he was taken to a hospital, but we don't know which one. He was not back at the convention today. When I know more, I will write about it.
Saturday morning at SMOFCon started early with breakfast in the hotel restaurant at 7:30 with several friends (some of whom don't like me mentioning their names so I won't) before the 9 AM Chengdu Worldcon Debrief. Unfortunately for me, partway through, I started sneezing and had to leave. (I subsequently self-tested negative for COVID.) However, the panel, like the rest of the programming at SMOFCon 40, was recorded and I should be able to see the second half later. The news here was that the Hugo Award stats, should be available very soon. When they are up on the Chengdu website, we'll also post them to TheHugoAwards.org.
I ended up taking a nap before my 1 PM panel about "Are SF/Clubs Shrinking/Dying." I did not correctly set my alarm, and if I had not woke up on my own just before the panel time, I would have missed it entirely.
After the panel, I had lunch with Sally Woehrle, which was nice and allowed us to get caught up a bit.
Then it was time for another nap. This is a necessity, in that I've been up much too late and have to wake up much too early, meaning I'm definitely not getting enough sleep. This will continue until I get home.
After waking up, I went to where we were running the traditional Probability & Statistics Seminar, where I helped set things up and also got a take-out dinner from the hotel restaurant. I skipped the Worldcon and Bids Q&A, once again because I should be able to watch the recordings later.
The P&S Seminar went very smoothly. I crashed out relatively early again, but that's okay. This year's repeat champion was Alex von Thorn.
Seattle was selected by acclamation to host next year's SMOFCon. I'm very happy that someone drove out from the west coast and is driving back, and she has agreed to transport the boxes of tokens back west so we can use them next year. They are too heavy for me to carry in my luggage.
Now I get a whopping 3 1/2 hours of sleep before starting this all over again so I have breakfast and then run a WSFS MPC Meeting (which is on the SMOFCon schedule) at 9 AM Eastern Time.
I forecast another nap is coming after that meeting.
Saturday morning at SMOFCon started early with breakfast in the hotel restaurant at 7:30 with several friends (some of whom don't like me mentioning their names so I won't) before the 9 AM Chengdu Worldcon Debrief. Unfortunately for me, partway through, I started sneezing and had to leave. (I subsequently self-tested negative for COVID.) However, the panel, like the rest of the programming at SMOFCon 40, was recorded and I should be able to see the second half later. The news here was that the Hugo Award stats, should be available very soon. When they are up on the Chengdu website, we'll also post them to TheHugoAwards.org.
I ended up taking a nap before my 1 PM panel about "Are SF/Clubs Shrinking/Dying." I did not correctly set my alarm, and if I had not woke up on my own just before the panel time, I would have missed it entirely.
After the panel, I had lunch with Sally Woehrle, which was nice and allowed us to get caught up a bit.
Then it was time for another nap. This is a necessity, in that I've been up much too late and have to wake up much too early, meaning I'm definitely not getting enough sleep. This will continue until I get home.
After waking up, I went to where we were running the traditional Probability & Statistics Seminar, where I helped set things up and also got a take-out dinner from the hotel restaurant. I skipped the Worldcon and Bids Q&A, once again because I should be able to watch the recordings later.
The P&S Seminar went very smoothly. I crashed out relatively early again, but that's okay. This year's repeat champion was Alex von Thorn.
Seattle was selected by acclamation to host next year's SMOFCon. I'm very happy that someone drove out from the west coast and is driving back, and she has agreed to transport the boxes of tokens back west so we can use them next year. They are too heavy for me to carry in my luggage.
Now I get a whopping 3 1/2 hours of sleep before starting this all over again so I have breakfast and then run a WSFS MPC Meeting (which is on the SMOFCon schedule) at 9 AM Eastern Time.
I forecast another nap is coming after that meeting.
