As usual, I apologize for the time between updates. I've been busy with work, other extracurricular activities (see below), and writing code rather than English.
I went to AnimeBoston this past weekend. It was entertaining, but I'm not at all sure I see the point of conventions like that, at least for me. I did get to hang out with perbac who was in town for the con (and to visit her boyfriend), which was good. I am told that part of the point of this sort of thing is to meet people with common interested, etc., but I'm not the sort of person who will meet people just from being plunged into a mass of them. Also, I kept getting the feeling, probably from the ages of the people there and the costumes that they were dressed in, that these were not people I really had that much in common with.
Perhaps I've bought into the MITSFS"We're not fans, we just read the stuff" slogan. Maybe I just enjoy anime, and am insufficiently fanatical. We'll see if it's just a genre mismatch when Worldcon rolls around.
There were some pretty cool costumes, though.
After the weekend, I came down with a cold (epidemiological investigation suggests it had nothing to do with the con). It still hasn't quite gone away, although it seems to be getting better.
Anyway, I said cons up there, didn't I? BloggerCon is tomorrow. I had registered for it (it's free this year, and it's a 30 minute walk from home) but I decided yesterday not to go. I feel that if I went, I would just do my normal unobtrusive thing in the corner, and happen to be in the presence of people who certainly write like they're loud and annoying ( :-) ).
Regardless, I think I am happier without "real" faces to go with the words, and the words would probably have differing value to me if they were associated with people I actually knew. Right now, I can hit "mark all as read" for the majority of the things in my RSS reader with only the lingering feeling of having missed something, and no guilt. This way, I can sleep in tomorrow. Also, I won't get bored to death by a discussion of blogging tools I don't use, or slain by a discussion of blogging identity politics. (I seem to hold with the the apparently old-fashioned tendency to categorize by behavior and empirical characteristics rather than by self-description. Very stupid white man of me, I'm sure, for which I apologize.) Also, much as I'd derive a generous helping of schadenfreude from reading about all the colds they'd come down with, going and spreading the germs just doesn't seem like right action.
I think I'll spend this weekend writing more code (and possibly playing RPGs). At least some of the code could be applied towards making posting here easier for me... which might help things get less dusty.
