{"id":420,"date":"2005-01-25T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/01\/25\/marscon-and-stuff\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T17:32:00","slug":"marscon-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/01\/25\/marscon-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Marscon and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from Marscon Sunday. It was an interesting weekend &#8211; all the rooms were taken over by a military group preparing for special training, so all the attendees had to drive back and forth to their hotels. Put a damper on things, that&#8217;s for sure. I wish I&#8217;d remembered that there would be a Rocky Horror show on Saturday night &#8211; maybe they&#8217;ll do it again next year.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up with <a href=\"http:\/\/kittykatya.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">kittykatya<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/impink.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">impink<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tzel.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">tzel<\/a>, Tom &#038; Donna, Jesse, Suzanne, Dave &#038; Jodi, Dwight, Helen, and a bunch of other folk. I got some cheap Discworld paperbacks, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/burninhell\/\" target=\"_new\">another Steve Jackson card game<\/a>; for $1, I also bought a memory &#8211;  the two books of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acaeum.com\/DDIndexes\/SetPages\/Basic.html\" target=\"_new\">1978 D&#038;D Basic set<\/a> (4th or 5th printing). We also got some Deadlands modules, and <a href=\"http:\/\/raininva.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">raininva<\/a> won an auction for a signed uncut sheet of <a href=\"http:\/\/warstcg.fanhq.com\/Articles\/Article.aspx?ID=560\" target=\"_new\">WARS: Nowhere to Hide<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Screen-capture trivia: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elfie.org\/~mikail\/journal\/TNG101_113.jpg\" target=\"_new\">men&#8217;s miniskirt Starfleet uniform<\/a> from the early Season One episodes of TNG. Strange that this didn&#8217;t catch on. I mean, can&#8217;t you just see Worf running around in it?<\/p>\n<p>There was something else on my mind, but it&#8217;s gone now.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the saga of the books I&#8217;ve read this year &#8211; just finished a re-read of Asimov&#8217;s <i>Foundation Trilogy<\/i>. I have to give Asimov credit for, in the space of a few short stories, giving me the feel of observing the fall of a Galactic Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got back from Marscon Sunday. It was an interesting weekend &#8211; all the rooms were taken over by a military group preparing for special training, so all the attendees had to drive back and forth to their hotels. Put a damper on things, that&#8217;s for sure. I wish I&#8217;d remembered that there would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,39,7,8,49,68,48,16,25],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-conventions","tag-costuming","tag-friends","tag-gaming","tag-marscon","tag-rhps","tag-star-trek","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}