Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = Penguicon3.0 198
AciDive writes "Everyone's favorite Michigan based Linux and Scifi convention is back for another year. Penguicon is pleased
to announce that this years guests will include: Cory Doctorow, Kevin Siembieda, Nat Torkington, Joan D. Vinge, Dr. Peter Salus, Eugene "ROD" Roddenberry Jr, Kathe Koja, Joey deVilla, Cathy Raymond, Alice Taylor, Eric Raymond, Jeff "Hemos" Bates, Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Howard Tayler and Luke Ski. Pre-Registration for Penguicon will be open until Friday April 8, 2005, and yes if you miss the pre-reg date you can register at the door. Penguicon has a full schedule of Linux and Sci-fi related panels slated for this year so don't miss it (we have panels for everyone from the beginner to the l33t h4x0r).
Penguicon will be held on April 22-24, 2005 @ the Novi Sheraton in Novi Michigan." I don't usually plug local stuff, but this show is a truly unique blend of Linux & Scifi and one of my favorites. This will be my third year speaking, and I'm really looking forward to it. I'll post more in my journal as I figure out scheduling. At the very least, we should pack the hotel bar with Slashdot readers for some quality beer time after my session.
ARRRRGGHHHHH!!! (Score:2)
Please, those of you who do go, blog away. I want to hear how this went. Many people will be very appreciative since we're stuck as desks half a nation or more away.
Re:ARRRRGGHHHHH!!! (Score:1)
-Bill Putt
Conchair Penguicon 3.0
penguicon.org
So... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:1)
http://www.wayne47.com/Penguicon2004/2004-04-16-1
We would love a Darth Maul to show up.
-Bill Putt
Conchair Penguicon 3.0
penguicon.org
Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con (Score:4, Funny)
Be there AND Be square.
Not very many panels, I guess. (Score:4, Insightful)
Based on my experience, those considering themselves "l33t h4x0rs" are beginners.
Re:Not very many panels, I guess. (Score:1)
Re:Not very many panels, I guess. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Not very many panels, I guess. (Score:3, Insightful)
Based on my experience, those considering themselves "l33t h4x0rs" are beginners.
That is, of course, true. However, I think it was meant to be a light hearted reference for people who remember when goofballs talked like that and meant it. I'm reasonably sure these guys know the difference between "h4xx0r" and hacker [catb.org].
...and Luke Ski (Score:2, Funny)
walker.
Come on, I know I'm not the only one who added that when I read his name.
Re:...and Luke Ski (Score:1)
lukeski.com
-Bill Putt
Conchair Penguicon 3.0
penguicon.org
*shudder* (Score:2, Funny)
Re:*shudder* (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:*shudder* (Score:2, Informative)
-Bill Putt
Conchair Penguicon 3.0
penguicon.org
Re:*shudder* (Score:2)
> register just for this story?
They might have, but I didn't. And I'm co-founder of the event.
Rob
RE: Wanted to go to this, but have another *boring (Score:2)
Next year...!!!
Wil W. wont be there anyways...
Re: Wanted to go to this, but have another *boring (Score:2)
I'm under the impression he's trying to set up some kind of videoconference from his living room into our theatre to make up for cancelling again. (Dunno if we can pull it off, but it'd be cool.)
Wil's been really nice to us ever since we got one of last year's guests of honor (Neil Gaiman) in touch with him to do the foreward of Just a Geek, even though Wil canc
NOVI????? (Score:5, Informative)
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I'll be coming from Windsor myself and I don't mind it too much but it can be a real hassle for some people.
Also there is no infrastructure in Windsor capable of hosting penguicon. Let alone find parking!
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And the casino hotel is pretty expensive and they don't like conventions too much as they tend to take over the entire hotel.
Parking is also an issue... on a weekend, the casino's parking garages can get pretty busy without the hundreds of cars from the convention...
Re:NOVI????? (Score:2)
Downtown Detroit may be deeply frightening (I'm from Austin Texas, all I hear about Detroit is people making fun of it), but the suburbs aren't so bad. This year's hotel is on the northwest corner of the beltway around Detroit. You can avoid the actual city entirely.
Rob
Re:NOVI????? (Score:2)
Bull. I'd rather shoot myself than enjoy Novi's "nightlife". I club in Downtown Detroit, and nowhere else (unless I'm in another major city). Novi is for yuppie asshats that blow $120,000+ on Hummers just to look "cool".
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Appropriate...the hotel itself was elderly, and showed it.
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It was actually closer to the GM Tech Center than the golf domes.
Personally, I thought it was a good hotel for cons. The furniture could be quickly disassembled, and reassembled with simple tools, by getting a suite; you had a private room plus place for friends to crash, and when you got hungry at 3:00 am, Telly's was right down the street.
The new location [ofdoom.com] is pretty good.
I know that area well, because the local HP
Re:Do it Rubi-Con Style and ... (Score:2)
Go to the Ramada in Detroit :)
You mean where MacHack/ADHOC is held? Good choice!
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Besides, Novi makes it easier for the chicago people and others not wanting to drive into the traffic mess t
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Yeah I'd move but what are my options? Some depressing dead city, one one of the many Hicksvilles...
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Every time I've been to Detroit the streets are deserted.
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if it was not for the conventions there almost every stinking day the town would dry up or turn into a subdivision for detroitites looking for a $500,000+ home right on the highway. (Note to non michigan people. we have LOTS of the "stupid rich" here. paying huge sums to build their GIANT homes right on the highway so they can hear and smell those disel trucks...)
The Detroit post-riot White Flight (TM) continues... Now Brighton is the next Novi. Novi is too big and overdeveloped, so all the rich Republ
Re:NOVI????? (Score:2, Informative)
-Bill Putt
Conchair Penguicon 3.0
penguicon.org
Re:NOVI????? (Score:2, Interesting)
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I'd love to come... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'd love to come... (Score:2)
Is it just me? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:2)
Well, let's see... Two of the names are the guys who brought you Slashdot! If those are the only two you recognize, you'd better get out more.
Rodenberry... Rodenberry... I know that name sounds familiar....
As far as cons go, this one has more names I recognize than any other con I see advertised (well, except maybe GenCon). But I guess that's why I'm going and you're not.
Quality beer time eh? (Score:1, Funny)
At the very least, we should pack the hotel bar with Slashdot readers for some quality beer time after my session.
Maybe then will you listen to our complaints of all the dupes, Picquepaille posts, ...?
Re:Quality beer time eh? (Score:2)
There was actually a slashdot panel where these issues were brought up...
truly unique (Score:2, Flamebait)
Is a "truly unique" object better than a false non-singleton?
</pedantic>
There is much humor to be found in the written word...
Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Oh Please Oh Please Oh Please (Score:2)
Well, it's been 50 years... But I still think they'll come up with a chromed and aerodynamic flying toaster before they come up with a flying car.
I can't go (Score:1, Redundant)
"Be there AND be square!"
And a guy in a funny costume. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And a guy in a funny costume. (Score:2)
Re:And a guy in a funny costume. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:And a guy in a funny costume. (Score:2)
Oh goddammit. (Score:3, Funny)
Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
First, go to the convention. Second, catch a cool show at St. Andrews. (Although there will never be one as cool as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Voivod from the early 90s. Unless you consider Jane's Addiction warming up for Iggy Pop around the same time! Oh, and Melt Banana warming up for Mr. Bungle. That was TOTALLY fucking awesome!)
Lastly, get something to eat at Fishbone's.
Re:Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = being lost (Score:2)
> They could have done Troy or even downtown...
Because although I'd had the idea of doing this for years, Tracy Worcester had experience (con chair of ConFusion in 2000) and had con staff she could call on in the area. She lived in Ypsilanti.
Our first year [sourceforge.net], we were in Warren.
Oddly enough, Tracy's thinking about being con chair again next year [livejournal.com], which should seriously rock...
I can see it now... (Score:3, Funny)
I can see it now...
Miller Lite
Color: +2
Taste: +1
This beer modded Hot Waitress! +10
A Linux *and* Sci-Fi Convention Combined?! (Score:1, Funny)
(Hustling into my extra-extra-extra-large "Tux the Penguin T-shirt, and strapping on my lightsaber...)
-- A Geek
Bring the LAN equpment (Score:1)
This is a lot of fun, show up, bring a gaming station.
Re:Bring the LAN equpment (Score:2)
Similar Convention: Linucon in Austin (Score:2, Informative)
Crow T. Trollbot
Re:Similar Convention: Linucon in Austin (Score:2)
Turn it into a feature: Go and tell him what a dirty rotten no-goodnik he is.
While you are there, Cmdr Taco (Score:1)
Wish you would have hyped this one more than just a few days before it started!
Detroit (Score:2)
About the only good thing Detroit has for it is decent radio.
Re:Detroit (Score:2)
"About the only good thin
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Lessee... I'll go through the dial:
88.7 fm: Based outta Windsor, plays mostly death metal and extreme alternative stuff. Grates on my nerves after a while.
92.3 fm: Someone decided to resurrect the old WDRQ call letters and the station sounds like competition for WJLB on 97, which is fine if you like R&B/Soul/Rap.
93.5 fm: Lite rock from Windsor with a definitely Canadian bent, but too sugary-sweet for my
Re:Detroit (Score:2)
93.5 is actually 93.9.
105.1 was the classical station. 102.7 had the distintion of being the station that Ted Nugent owned. Even he couldn't make a go of it in the Detroit radio scene.
97.1 Deminski and Doyle are one of the few reasons to listen to this station. Greg and Michelle are about as interesting as watching straws dry in McDonalds.
Also there is 93.1, which used to be the worst hip-hop mix, and music for drag queens. From what I've heard, they've changed the format to something mor
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Some commentary:
88.7 fm: Based outta Windsor, plays mostly death metal and extreme alternative stuff. Grates on my nerves after a while.
Eh? Death metal? *laughs out loud* I've never heard *any* metal on that station in my life! Just the opposite! They play "light alternative" which has been getting lighter and more high-pitched with every year. If you want some death metal check out Cannibal Corpse [cannibalcorpse.net]. Not my cup of tea, but some people are into it.
93.5 fm: Lite rock from Windsor with a definitely Can
You might be a geek if.... (Score:5, Funny)
-If you pronounce unix commands
-If you get agitated everytime you hear someone use the term "information super highway."
-When you heard the Ricky Martin song, "She Bangs" you thought "#!"
-If you think the GUI was the downfall of computing.
-If you consider reading "the news" is going to "Slashdot."
-If you've ever used the words "grep," "sed," and "awk" in a sentence.
-If you've ever been in a heated debate with someone over "vi" versus "emacs."
-If you just picked one of the above.
-If you know who RMS is.
-If you've ever looked at a household appliance and wondered, "Can I install minix on that?"
-If your sp3llin9 b3ginz to l00k l1k3 th1$.
-If your entire wardrobe is made up of IT vendor T-Shirts.
-If you have ever attended a LAN party but left because they didn't have a gigabit switch.
-If you've ever attended a movie opening in costume.
-If you own a Batleth or know someone who does.
-If you've ever uttered a word in Klingon.
-If you've ever argued with someone regarding Kirk or Picard being the better Captain.
-If you can name more than 3 planets in the Star Wars movies.
-If you're not offended by the term "BitchX"
-If you know what a "Tardis" is.
-If you've ever dressed as a Sci-Fi/Fantasy character at a Rennaissance Festival.
-Actually, if you dressed up as anything at a RenFest.
-If you kept a journal of all the things changed or left out of the Tolkien novels while watching the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
-If you've ever used "geek code" in your e-mail signatures
-If the value of your comic book collection exceeds your annual income.
-If you attend any sort of convention plugged on Slashdot.
MORE You might be a geek if.... (Score:3, Funny)
-If you've ever tried to explain the difference between a "cracker" and a "hacker" to anyone
-If your tan comes exclusively from CRT radiation.
-If you've ever been used by a woman for your "computer hacking skills" rather than your nunchuck or bow hunting skills.
-If you downloaded the leaked copy of the new "Dr. Who" show.
--I'll write more
Great List (Score:2)
speaking of essence, no personal hygiene references?
Re:Great List (Score:2)
You might be a geek if:
-If your barber needs to use "Gumout" before cutting.
-If that smell from behind your ear reminds you of "Cheetos."
-If your laundry is piled in the categories "wear again," "throw away," or "get mom to wash."
-If you can't read the letters on your keyboard because they're covered with a sebaceous tar.
-If your dandruff shampoo bottle quakes with fear as you reach for it.
-If your complexion reminds you of a field of gopher holes stuffed with mashed potatoes.
-If your cl
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Re:You might be a geek if.... (Score:2)
regards,
catdevnull & "Jackhammer"
Africatown (Score:2)
In future years, Penguinconers will tour Detroit's lovely Africatown [spectator.org].
Re:Beer + /. = ? (Score:3, Funny)
but think of the trolling opportunities!
Re:Beer + /. = ? (Score:1)
Beer No!
What about Paris Hilton? http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/ 141218&tid=163&tid=106 [slashdot.org]
Re:Beer + /. = ? (Score:2)
If they let the trolls in without moderation, count me out.
Re:Novi is NOT Detroit (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Local? (Score:2)
Of course, I wouldn't know for sure, because SOME Linux dudes are just too good to show up at the Wasthenaw Linux Users Group.
Re:Local? (Score:1)
Dave
Re:Local? (Score:2)
I live in Jackson for crying out loud and I heard of it.
Jackson! Come on!
Re:Love to go. (Score:2)
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Re:Love to go. (Score:2)
(hands over keyboard)
(quickly hands the keyboard back)