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Showing posts with label Panels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panels. Show all posts
Monday, March 3, 2014
I Appear, Publicly Even...
Last year, FogCon gave me my first shot as a panelist, and they were kind enough to ask me back for this year.
So:
This weekend I will be at FogCon in Walnut Creek, with two panels on Friday, back to back. The first, A Secret Is Something You Only Tell One Person At A Time, is at 1330. Just after that, at 1500, it's Secret Agencies of The Occult, which I look forward to.
On Saturday I will be on my third and final panel, at 1330: Cryptography and Codes, which I believe I can add some interesting things to, especially regarding the use of codes in history.
If you are in the Bay Area or someone who travels for cons, I hope to see you there!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Frontier Law Panel at ContraFlow III
ContraFlow III will be my second convention as a panel participant. I am looking forward to it with great anticipation. A couple years ago Alistair and I got it into our heads to do something like this, and now it's actually happening:
Diana Rowland, Alistair Kimble, and I are doing a panel entitled Frontier Law, moderated by Mark L. Van Name at 1100am on Saturday. We plan to lay down the law about a few subjects, namely how law enforcement would be forced to adapt to mind-readers, aliens, elves and all the other awesome in speculative fiction. The panelists have a combined 30 years of law enforcement experience at varied levels, including federal.
We hope to bring the panel to other conventions in the future, and having Myke Cole join us.
Diana Rowland, Alistair Kimble, and I are doing a panel entitled Frontier Law, moderated by Mark L. Van Name at 1100am on Saturday. We plan to lay down the law about a few subjects, namely how law enforcement would be forced to adapt to mind-readers, aliens, elves and all the other awesome in speculative fiction. The panelists have a combined 30 years of law enforcement experience at varied levels, including federal.
We hope to bring the panel to other conventions in the future, and having Myke Cole join us.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
FogCon 2013
This last week I had that circles thing I spoke of in the past come round and help me out. I've been in a bit of rut lately, not so much with the actual writing, but more with feeling things were proceeding at a glacial pace.
At any rate, Jaym Gates posted on Facebook that she was attending FogCon this weekend. Never having heard of FogCon, I checked it out. I immediately went shit, this stuff is right up my alley and it's close to home! Too bad I'm too late to get on a panel or two.
Later, I whined exactly that to Jaym, who went and offered to write the programmers and let them know who I was. I accepted her generous offer of introductions and, by Thursday I was assigned two panels: one was titled The Ticking Time Bomb, having to do with interrogations.
On the panel with me were: Daniel Starr, Terry Karner, Phyllis Holliday, and either Alan Bostick or Gary Farber, I'm not sure which (there was a late change to the line-up, and I didn't record the beginning).
Part one of my recording of that panel is, hopefully, here.
It should be noted that I misspoke when I say I had been on every interrogation, meaning to say I had been on many more interrogations than most officers of my experience:
As you can hear, the military interrogation specialist was exceptionally good. I did my best to keep up: Daniel Starr was our moderator, and did a good job of keeping us in hand.
I apologize for the low quality of the recordings, it was hard enough to get the damn things up on Blogger, requiring seven hours of attempts and a lot of grumbling.
My second panel, on Saturday, was titled Telepathic Cop catch a Teleporting Criminal. I am not sure why I didn't record that one, but I didn't. It went just as well, I think. No one jumped up and laid a verbal whipping on me, in any case.
Overall, I think it was a successful weekend and that I did quite well on my first panels as a published author.
At any rate, Jaym Gates posted on Facebook that she was attending FogCon this weekend. Never having heard of FogCon, I checked it out. I immediately went shit, this stuff is right up my alley and it's close to home! Too bad I'm too late to get on a panel or two.
Later, I whined exactly that to Jaym, who went and offered to write the programmers and let them know who I was. I accepted her generous offer of introductions and, by Thursday I was assigned two panels: one was titled The Ticking Time Bomb, having to do with interrogations.
On the panel with me were: Daniel Starr, Terry Karner, Phyllis Holliday, and either Alan Bostick or Gary Farber, I'm not sure which (there was a late change to the line-up, and I didn't record the beginning).
Part one of my recording of that panel is, hopefully, here.
It should be noted that I misspoke when I say I had been on every interrogation, meaning to say I had been on many more interrogations than most officers of my experience:
As you can hear, the military interrogation specialist was exceptionally good. I did my best to keep up: Daniel Starr was our moderator, and did a good job of keeping us in hand.
I apologize for the low quality of the recordings, it was hard enough to get the damn things up on Blogger, requiring seven hours of attempts and a lot of grumbling.
My second panel, on Saturday, was titled Telepathic Cop catch a Teleporting Criminal. I am not sure why I didn't record that one, but I didn't. It went just as well, I think. No one jumped up and laid a verbal whipping on me, in any case.
Overall, I think it was a successful weekend and that I did quite well on my first panels as a published author.
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