New month, and it is a gray and unpleasant one so far. For the last
day, every time it gets nice enough to not wear a coat (not so unusual
for Atlanta in February) the next day would be rainy and cold.
One webzine “publication” that I follow is Sci Fi Dimensions. It’s
pretty good and the guy who runs it is here in town. I met him at the
first Atlanta Comic Con in
2001. I was expecting so little from this brand new con back then, and
it turned out to be great. Of course, after a few hours I called out
for a bullshit emergency at my then job for InterTrust and I never got to go
back. It pissed me off badly that I never got to enjoy this great con,
that the emergency wasn’t even a problem (short version – a system
speced to deliver 2 transactions/second with peaks of 10/second was
failing under a sustained load of 50/sec; file that under “no shit,
Sherlock”) and within a month I was laid off anyway. I meant to go
back last year but they seemed to both fall of the stick on publicity
and I fell off on figuring out when it was. One Sunday morning I found myself
asking “When is that thing this year?” only to find out it was
that weekend. April 11-13, must remember, must
remember! This year I’ll even reassemble my comic want list so I have
some idea what I want to buy in a giant room full of things to buy.
Anyway, where was I? Chris Snider, I remember. I see him at
Dragon*Cons now and he’s always pleasant to talk to. Check out his
zine, it is fun. The March issue is out now.