[Penguicon-Concom] Draft of the Program Book

[Matt Arnold]

"1hr" and "0h50" are the same timeslot. Also "2hr" and "1h50", "3hr"
and "2h50", and so on. We always ask there to be a ten-minute break at
the end of a session. But I don't think we need to list it that way in
the schedule book.

Friday
8PM Vampire the Requiem     Replace weird characters with quote marks
and apostrophes.
9PM Making Mascots and Fur Suits      Change "Firefox" to "Tux".
9PM Psychology of Swordsmanship      Replace all program participants
with "Aegis Consulting"
10PM Aaargh, Prepare to Be Boarded      Replace all program
participants with "Aegis Consulting"
9PM Bring On Da Noise, Bring On Da FuMP concert is listed in your
proof draft PDF at 9 on Friday.Later you say you don't have info on
it, but I think you missed it. Please add the sentence "The Funny
Music Project." to the start of the blurb.
9PM Age of Steam     Eliminate unecessary line break in blurb
midnight Shoggoth on the Roof              Add the word "A", to be "A
Shoggoth on the Roof"

Saturday
10AM Andy Vs. Everybody           This is duplicated unnecessarily.
Use this: "You think you can beat Andy Looney at his own games? The
creative force behind such games as Fluxx, Aquarius, Chrononauts,
Treehouse, and more takes on all comers in a tour-de-force of
gamesmanship. Andy will be playing against multiple opponents, playing
different Looney Labs games, simultaneously."
11AM Artist Alley        Remove Luke Ski. Do not list participants.
11AM The Haunting House          Remove duplicate.
11AM ur-books of SF         Re-title "The Perfect SF Book - Audience
Participation"
noon ur-books of Fantasy         Re-title "The Perfect Fantasy Book -
Audience Participation"
1PM Entrepreneurship          This says "1AM" and should be "1PM"
1PM State of the Internet Union       CANCELED. Remove this, it's not
happening. Entrepreneurship takes this slot.
2PM Harry Potter and the Silver Screen      Replace weird characters
with quote marks and apostrophes.
2PM Vampire the Requiem     Replace weird characters with quote marks
and apostrophes.
3PM Age of Empires III         Remove unnecessary line breaks
3PM Circuit Bending and Musical Electronics Workshop         Replace
"bending it over" with "drawing it with"
3PM So, When Do I Get My Floating Car?         Replace weird
characters with a hyphen.
4PM Sneak Like A Ninja, Move With Grace         Replace participants
with "Aegis Consulting"
4PM Stick Figures and Math            Change title to "xkcd webcomic:
Stick Figures and Math". Delete the word "been" from "If you've ever
been laughed"
5PM Best Webcomics You're Not Reading         Make xkcd all lower-case letters.
5PM Choosing The Right Book Printer           Replace weird characters
with quote marks and apostrophes.
5PM Secure Hardware Environments          Add the graphics that I sent
you URL links to
5PM Swordsmanship Tourney           Replace participants with "Aegis
Consulting". Replace weird characters with a hyphen
6PM The Future of OpenSUSE           Remove html tags from blurb
7PM GURPS Cthulhu Punk: The 8 Point Rose       Replace weird
characters with a hyphen. Remove duplicate entry
8PM Cigar Round Table        Remove asterisks and make "not" italics
8PM Citadels            Replace weird characters with a period.
8PM Game Camps      Make this 1hr
8PM History, Oddities, and the Search for the Perfect Window Manager
    Remove unnecessary line breaks.
8PM Shogun          Replace weird characters with quote marks
9PM MST3K        New title: "MST3K I, Robot" New blurb: "Join your
fellow MST3K afficionados in lambasting one of the worst movies ever
to call itself "science fiction": the Will Smith vehicle "I, Robot"!
It's fun for the whole family!
9PM Pirates of the Cursed Seas        Replace weird characters with apostrophes

Sunday
8AM Goa       Remove unnecessary line breaks.
9AM Wits and Wagers        Replace weird characters with apostrophes
Unless you heard that this was canceled, which I did not hear about:
April 20, 2008 10:00 am	0h50	Ballroom C	Future      Ethics Of Ending
The World	Aaron Diaz, Eliezer Yudkowsky	All good and sensible folk
agree: it's time for this world to end. But what's the right and
proper way to go about it? Is it a moral requirement to preserve the
lives of existing humans so they can develop into technological gods?
Or is it okay to wipe out the human species and replace it with
superior AIs? Does a proper transcendence require the extinction of
the human race, or prohibit it? And what about the Luddites - should
they be given their own Dyson Sphere, be forced to upgrade their
intelligence, or be recycled for parts? Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak) and
Eliezer Yudkowsky (Singularity Institute for AI) square off on the
ethics of technocalypse.
noon A Thinking Ape's Critique of Trans-Simianism        Replace weird
characters with quote marks and apostrophes.
2PM Cryonics: Current State of the Art          Replace "access" with
"accessed".
4PM Closing Ceremonies      Here is a blurb: "Next year's convention
committee unveils next year's new larger hotel, Nifty Guests, Hack of
Honor, and Guests of Honor!"