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February 18, 2008
Back From Shmoocon
Well, I'm back from Shmoocon which was, as always, super awesome.
This year was a little different for me, as I had a table in the vendors hallway and was selling books. Lots and lots of books! I had the first copies off the press of the new edition of Geek Mafia and of course copies of Geek Mafia: Mile Zero as well, plus the new t-shirts. Sales were great and people were nice. I love it when they come back by the next morning after having been up late reading the book. My favorite was when hacker extraordinaire Johnny Long (who's written some great books of his own) came up and said "I read the first 50 pages last night. Chloe's hot." Yes, yes she is.
The down side of being at the table all con selling books was that I didn't see a single talk. Well, I saw one, but that was because I was on the closing plenary session panel. I was actually a little nervous beforehand, after all I was sharing the stage with Johny Long, Bruce Potter, Hackajar, and Simple Nomad - a formidable and diverse crew of hackers if there ever was one. But I held my own I think and did my duty by giving the "interested outsider's" thoughts and opinions. The talk was really interesting and a hell of a lot of fun.
Also fun were of course the parties, especially Saturday night's dance madness. As is my wont, I got my groove on for about 5 hours straight and boy are my quads sore now. Hopefully Skydog will send me some of the pics he took and if they aren't too embarrassing I'll throw some up here on the blog.
So, hello to all my new friends I met, and thanks to all of you who bought books and/or shirts. And of course thanks to Heidi Potter for hooking me up with the table and generally being super cool! Only 362 days until the next one...
Posted by rdakan at February 18, 2008 11:14 AM