{"id":3242105,"date":"2016-07-05T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T23:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/encaffeinated.ca\/tws\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2016-07-05T20:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T23:26:32","slug":"tws361-balticon50-panel-looking-at-the-world-in-a-weird-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/current-shows\/spoken\/tws\/tws361-balticon50-panel-looking-at-the-world-in-a-weird-way","title":{"rendered":"TWS361: Balticon50 Panel: \u201cLooking At The World In A WEIRD Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TWS361<\/a>Something quite a bit different for this episode, to be sure!<\/p>\n

I love going to conventions, particularly science-fiction conventions. I’ve gone to Balticon in Baltimore, MD for several years now, in part to attend the convention itself, and in part to hang out with a whole lot of very creative, interesting and fun folks I’ve met and admired over the years in the pod-o-sphere.<\/p>\n

I’ve been on panels and moderated a few (this year: Misuse and Abuse of Science), but I haven’t hosted many of my own. I’m never quite sure what they will be, and that’s not a great way to build a panel.<\/p>\n

At least.. that’s what I used<\/em> to think!<\/p>\n

I designed two panels to potentially host at Balticon, but they were very late in telling me whether or not they had been approved, so I backed off doing any work for them, on the theory that I didn’t have time to spend a lot of time preparing for something that wasn’t likely to happen. (I’ve been burned on that before, thoroughly preparing a roleplaying game scenario for a convention and then never running it.)<\/p>\n

And then, they let me know, about two weeks before the convention, that both<\/em> of my ideas were accepted, albeit as each half-hour<\/em> panels back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n

I tried to get some of the work I would need to pull them off ready, but then realized that I had another panel presentation to prepare for — a professional one<\/em> — for another conference I would be going to the week after the convention. Faced with decreased time, I simply decided to merge the two panel slots into one, and then do the initial panel presentation\/discussion I had intended.<\/p>\n

So, that’s what this week’s recording is: the panel I led at Balticon, entitled Looking at the World in a WEIRD Way<\/em>. It’s not entirely coherent, and is more like one of my older solo episodes combined with audience feedback and participation. It’s not exactly what I intended, but once I threw out the rulebook and simply existed<\/em> in the space, I found it actually went well.<\/p>\n

I won’t be presenting this madness again next year; instead, I intend to prepare and propose the other panel, entitled WEIRD or WHAT?<\/em> I’m hoping I can solicit help from some of my very creative friends to do a panel inspired by a segment called Bluff The Listener<\/em> from the NPR program Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We shall see..<\/p>\n

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A recording of my panel at Balticon 50, an oddly-improv’d discussion called “Looking at the world in a WEIRD way”.<\/p>\n

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