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I hope I learn a lasting lesson from the last several months. This is the first trip I’ve ever taken where I was literally tossing unfolded clothes into my checked bag 30 minutes before we drove to the Houston airport, and I certainly hope it’s the last trip with such last-minute trip preparation. [...]

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I’ll be writing more later–probably a lot more.  For now, I’ll only say that I was more taken with Tel Aviv than any other anti-Zionist you’re liable to meet.  Everyone was great to us.  We had a blast.  I miss everyone there.  I want to go back.

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Our outgoing flight was delayed for 4 hours at the gate, which caused us to miss our connecting flight from Heathrow to Tel Aviv. The only available remaining flight for today was for 10:30 tonight (local time), and in our rush to hurry out the door (wish we’d known we didn’t have to!) we neglected [...]

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About 24 hours from now, I head off to Tel Aviv for Icon.  I should be back in about ten days.  Until then, I don’t think I’ll have access to email.

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Arse Elektronika 2008 – What is the 21st Century Novel?
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The presentation Reesa and I gave at Arse Elektronika is now available with an accompanying slideshow. You can use the controls above — click the Play button to hear the audio, and use the left and right [...]

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Hello from San Francisco! Our paper was well-received, and there have been a lot of interesting presentations this year. I’m enjoying the conference, although there have not been as many opportunities for conversation as there were last year, which is a shame.
We’ve both got a lot of thoughts on the conference which we’ll try to [...]

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Kit and Reesa made it to San Francisco for their conference!  (And Steve made it to Minnesota, which was mentioned in comments I think but might have been missed in top-level posting.)
Kit and I each wrote about our travel experiences getting here.  If you’d like to follow along, we posted about it on our personal [...]

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In 2007 I attended the first Arse Elektronika, a conference about sex and technology. Last year’s theme was ‘pr0novation’ (see my notes on the conference here). I had a great time. I can’t help but think some conversations I had with the organizers helped inspire this year’s theme, “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” which [...]

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Off to Austin for Armadillocon.  Hope to see some of you there!

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My fellow members of the Society of Voluptuaries who were with me at the con type much faster than I do, so they took on the task of attempting to transcribe the panels. Which they should be finishing up for sharing any day now. (Hint, hint.) My job was to write down [...]

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