[Penguicon-Concom] Draft of the Program Book

[Matt Arnold]

I'm just pointing out they're both listed at the exact same time.
-Matt

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> For Andy vs. Everybody, do you mean it's unnecesary to have two sessions?
>  He's willing to to do. And even suggested it/
>
>  FY,
>  Molly
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org] On
>  Behalf Of Matt Arnold
>  Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:09 AM
>  To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
>  Subject: Re: [Penguicon-Concom] Draft of the Program Book
>
>  "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!"
>
>
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