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I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (29 comments)
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I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds

in Community by jon

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 12:31 PM

As usual, we'll be attending I-CON as guests this weekend, speaking on panels and hawking our wares. Come see us there! We'll be at our usual spot behind the registration booth, with R Stevens. Bring cash or liquor.

Also in attendance will be Goats Buddies Greg Dean and Randy Milholland and Proto-Buddies George Takei, Marc Singer, Elvira and Richard Hatch. Hooray!

UPDATE: I-CON was a blast, as always, thanks to all the staff there for making it such an excellent time and thanks to everyone who came to the webcomics panels. It's amazing -- we've been going to this convention for five years and the first time we went there were more panelists than people in the audience. Now the webcomics panels have hundreds of folks crammed into them like butter on an english muffin. It's good to see how webcomics have really taken a hold over that time.

I also want to thank all of you who contributed to the "Help Buy Voltaire a Second Sweater" fund. The money appears to have done some good, he actually did change his sweater for the third day of the con. We live in amazing times when a philanthropic organization can be founded in one day and affect change the very next -- you should all be proud of yourselves for helping to raise Sweater Awareness.

Lonely Goatherd
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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 02:10 PM (#33174)

I've been there since #8... Guess that makes me really nerdy. See you guys there. And thanks for the heads up about Randy, I had no idea he was going.

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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 07:31 PM (#33176)

Why are all good things happening only in NY? Let me see, if I cancel class Thursday morning and I drive 14 hours straight, I can make it. Field trip, anyone?


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 07:53 PM (#33180)
In Response to danav (#33176):

hell yeah i'd go along... you're paying, right? i still have a week until happy friday.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 08:33 PM (#33182)
In Response to danav (#33176):

Why are all good things happening only in NY?

Because NY is the hub of the world. And we happen to live in the armpit.

Field trip, anyone?

I could go for a field trip. Do we get extra credit if we write a report?


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 09:20 AM (#33191)

Wait, isn't Richard Hatch either in jail or on his way there?


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 11:24 AM (#33192)
In Response to danav (#33176):

I promise not to tell Die Frau Chancellor your reason for cancelling class if you promise to bring back pictures.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 11:51 AM (#33195)
In Response to mkinyon (#33192):

why don't you come along?


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 01:01 PM (#33196)
In Response to AsphaltBuffet (#33195):

Yeah, right.

Actually, the only folks of interest to me at I-CON are the webcomics guys. I'm sure there will be more convenient opportunities for meeting Jon and Phillip or Messrs. Dean and Milholland.

Be sure to take time to meet Ron Glass, the University of Evansville's favorite alumnus.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 05:53 PM (#33203)
In Response to mkinyon (#33196):

Part of the fun is the inconvenient timing. There's nothing more exciting than shirking responsibilities for a not-so-necessary road trip.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 06:35 PM (#33204)
In Response to IceCreamAddict (#33203):

Have fun, and say hi to J & P for me. Get someone to take notes for you in Linear Algebra. I'll try to cover some of the most difficult material in the whole course.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:03 PM (#33228)
In Response to mkinyon (#33204):

You mean we haven't gotten to the most difficult material yet? That's not much motivation to attend class over a trip to NY, but if you were to say that we'll be having ice cream and pony rides might be.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:12 PM (#33229)
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No, I don't want people spilling ice cream on the ponies. It's a liability thing.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 01:24 PM (#33230)
In Response to mkinyon (#33229):

More like a Kosher thing.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 06:55 PM (#33241)
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Since when is Ice Cream kosher in the first place?

I mean, come on. Even when it's "quiescently frozen", one certainly can't say that it was killed without cruelty. And normally, it's had the hell whipped right... into... it, I guess.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 09:43 PM (#33250)
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not-so-necessary road trip

That's a question of priorities...

Anyway, Mike can report to Mme the Chancelor that I'll be home this week-end, grading. Not that this is any of Her (majesty's) business.


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posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 09:45 PM (#33251)
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I'll be home this week-end, grading. Are you having drainage problems?

I had good luck when we were in Wisconsin by buying three boatloads of fill, and raising the ground level around the house by six inches.

At least until that first rain, when I found out that the electrical conduit into the basement did not have a cover on the junction box that was now... below the water table...


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:00 PM (#33253)
In Response to zamphir (#33241):

I'm sure you can find vegan ice cream that can satisfy even the most noble of consciences. Not sure the taste would be any good...


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:02 PM (#33254)
In Response to zamphir (#33251):

Uhm, I'll take these original suggestions of assessing the quality of students' homework under advising *grin*


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posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:44 PM (#33255)
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ssessing the quality of students' homework

You really do expect us to believe that you are grading papers

... on the weekend... ?

On your salary?

Don't you know that your job is to publish papers, and has nothigng to do with "teaching"?

What kind of "professor" are you, anyway?


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 11:56 PM (#33259)
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What kind of "professor" are you, anyway?

I ask myself that question too, you know. Sometimes.

Don't you know that your job is to publish papers, and has nothigng to do with "teaching"?

Touchy subject. Yes, I would like that to be more part of my job description, but it's only a small detail.


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Do I have to make the jokes obvious? (Score: 2)
posted Friday, March 24, 2006 - 01:19 AM (#33265)
In Response to danav (#33253):

... and you still have to worry about how the pony was killed and prepared.


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Re: I-CON 25: A Quarter Century of Nerds (Score: 2)
posted Friday, March 24, 2006 - 03:22 AM (#33268)
In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#33191):

Wait, isn't Richard Hatch either in jail or on his way there?

I think it's probably "Battlestar Galactica" Richard Hatch (Apollo 1979, Tom Zarek 2003) and not "Survivor" Richard Hatch (himself).


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Citations help. danav and I are academics, after a (Score: 2)
posted Friday, March 24, 2006 - 08:22 AM (#33269)
In Response to deerboy (#33265):

It's a natural progression of interpretation:

You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk (Exodus 23:19 and 34:26, Deuteronomy 14:21).

Don't mix meat and dairy. In fact, you'd better keep two sets of dishes so that you're sure not to mix them (Oral Torah, Talmud).

Don't ride a pony while eating ice cream (deerboy).

And comb your hair, it looks like a rat's nest (code of Hammurabi).


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Refs are nice, understanding context is better (Score: 2)
posted Friday, March 24, 2006 - 10:11 AM (#33275)
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Riding a pony?


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il n'ya pas d'or texte (Score: 2)
posted Friday, March 24, 2006 - 11:18 AM (#33278)
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Riding a pony?

Sticking a feather in one's cap.
Calling it macaroni.


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