Foolscap was this past Saturday...
Sep. 19th, 2011 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI had a lovely Foolscap this weekend too. Kouryou-chan and I only went for one day, but it was still a lovely day. I had a frackton of conversations about writing, programming, getting along with geek culture, even a couple of incredibly unapologetic conversations about racial politics.
Best line of the night on privilege: "I understand that some people have more keys on their keychain that I do. I don't mind that. It makes me mad when they won't acknowledge that they have more keys on their keychain."
I spent over $100 on books: Stross's Rule 34, Mieville's Embassytown, The Falling Machine (The Society of Steam, Book One) by Andrew P. Mayer (which I started reading and looks like a kick-ass superhero steampunk set in 1880s New York, with a steampunk version of Machine Man sidekicking a very able yet chronically dismissed young woman with a knack for inventing), Jim Hine's The Snow-Queen's Shadow, Cooking For Geeks, and a collection of steampunk romance short stories. (I've been reading a lot of steampunk recently, debating whether or not to make Toby and Kasserine steampunk. I think I won't, not that pair. Getting fin de siècle right is hard enough in the first place.)
Kouryou-chan tore up the place with two young ladies as accomplices, all of whom showed that headstrong leadership quality young women growing up in geekdom frequently do. They're all getting so tall. I don't feel that old!
Good times. But watch out for Haiku Sushi Buffet in Redmond. Nothing wrong with the food but for the prices they charge, you're better off going to a kaiten place like Blue C or Sushiland.
And the Borders Books next to the hotel where the convention was held was one of the saddest yet: down to a tiny corner of non-fiction and romance novels nobody will ever love.
Best line of the night on privilege: "I understand that some people have more keys on their keychain that I do. I don't mind that. It makes me mad when they won't acknowledge that they have more keys on their keychain."
I spent over $100 on books: Stross's Rule 34, Mieville's Embassytown, The Falling Machine (The Society of Steam, Book One) by Andrew P. Mayer (which I started reading and looks like a kick-ass superhero steampunk set in 1880s New York, with a steampunk version of Machine Man sidekicking a very able yet chronically dismissed young woman with a knack for inventing), Jim Hine's The Snow-Queen's Shadow, Cooking For Geeks, and a collection of steampunk romance short stories. (I've been reading a lot of steampunk recently, debating whether or not to make Toby and Kasserine steampunk. I think I won't, not that pair. Getting fin de siècle right is hard enough in the first place.)
Kouryou-chan tore up the place with two young ladies as accomplices, all of whom showed that headstrong leadership quality young women growing up in geekdom frequently do. They're all getting so tall. I don't feel that old!
Good times. But watch out for Haiku Sushi Buffet in Redmond. Nothing wrong with the food but for the prices they charge, you're better off going to a kaiten place like Blue C or Sushiland.
And the Borders Books next to the hotel where the convention was held was one of the saddest yet: down to a tiny corner of non-fiction and romance novels nobody will ever love.
