Festival of Books: highlights and my haul
Apr. 29th, 2006 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nollyThe bus ride up was fun, entertainment by new mytery author Jeff Shelby.
I left Conzilla bookmarks with MG, but they didn't think they had space for COnjecture bookmarks as well.
Best giveaway:
32 oz tetrapak of a yerba maté chai concentrate
My haul:
RQW #2, plus a t-shirt
A new fedora
Samurai William: The Englisman who opened Japan, Giles Milton
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who bewitched the West, Lesley Downer
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, Rudy Rucker
(these three were all at ~1/3 cover or less)
NFT guides for San Francisco and LA
You know the resource sheets we have at most cons, with the nearest food, office stores, etc.? Imagine that, for a city. It's not complete, of course -- that would be the yellow pages grossed with a Thomas Bros map, and too big to use -- but if you're at point X, and need to find a gas station, a bank, coffee, a drugstore, a supermarket...this looks like the guide to use.
Also, lots and lots of flyers, catalogs, samplers...a couple of pens, a notepad...
Just had a chance to look at the flyer for Crime Rhymes -- the sample given was fun to solve.
There's apparently a movie about crossword puzzles coming out this summer...
The Sony eBook reader looks pretty sweet, and they say it can use PDF, text, etc. files. Didn't ask a lot about DRM.
I successfully dodged both Scientologists and signing up with the hypnosis people.
Saw a booth for my mom's employer, but her group wasn't represented. (It was a small booth; most of the company's lines weren't there.)
I left Conzilla bookmarks with MG, but they didn't think they had space for COnjecture bookmarks as well.
Best giveaway:
32 oz tetrapak of a yerba maté chai concentrate
My haul:
RQW #2, plus a t-shirt
A new fedora
Samurai William: The Englisman who opened Japan, Giles Milton
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who bewitched the West, Lesley Downer
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, Rudy Rucker
(these three were all at ~1/3 cover or less)
NFT guides for San Francisco and LA
You know the resource sheets we have at most cons, with the nearest food, office stores, etc.? Imagine that, for a city. It's not complete, of course -- that would be the yellow pages grossed with a Thomas Bros map, and too big to use -- but if you're at point X, and need to find a gas station, a bank, coffee, a drugstore, a supermarket...this looks like the guide to use.
Also, lots and lots of flyers, catalogs, samplers...a couple of pens, a notepad...
Just had a chance to look at the flyer for Crime Rhymes -- the sample given was fun to solve.
There's apparently a movie about crossword puzzles coming out this summer...
The Sony eBook reader looks pretty sweet, and they say it can use PDF, text, etc. files. Didn't ask a lot about DRM.
I successfully dodged both Scientologists and signing up with the hypnosis people.
Saw a booth for my mom's employer, but her group wasn't represented. (It was a small booth; most of the company's lines weren't there.)
