{"id":2890,"date":"2019-01-11T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T02:49:06","slug":"its-only-logical-that-ill-be-at-illogicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/its-only-logical-that-ill-be-at-illogicon\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only Logical that I&#8217;ll Be at illogiCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again for <a href=\"http:\/\/illogicon.org\/\">illogiCon<\/a>, our local Research Triangle, North Carolina, science fiction and fantasy convention, happening this weekend at the RDU Embassy Suites (<em>with some events in the nearby Hampton Inn<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/illogicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/scienceFiction.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 65%;\"><em>(Professor Schrodington, the illogiCon mascot.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got going on:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7:00 p.m. &#8212; Opening Ceremonies &#8212; wherein I will play my &#8220;Convention Oddity&#8221; cover song<\/li>\n<li>8:00 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;That&#8217;s Just Wrong&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>10:00 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;I Spy with My Little Eyes&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11:00 a.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Ground Control to Major Tom&#8221; &#8212; oddly appropriate<\/li>\n<li>1:00 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Networking for Introverts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>2:00 p.m. &#8212; Filk Music Hour<\/li>\n<li>3:00 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;What Should We be Reading?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>4:00 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Star Trek: Worst. Episode. Ever.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>8:00 p.m. and after &#8212; More Filking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 a.m. &#8212; Reading <strong>(Time Changed from 2 p.m.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s no &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Road Show&#8221; this year, because I didn&#8217;t realize until too late that I was the only Baen representative and didn&#8217;t ask for a time slot.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I&#8217;ll be skating out after lunch to head to north Raleigh to host the monthly Writers Coffeehouse at Quail Ridge Books from 2-4 p.m. All writers are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have some fun!<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\nRelated Items:<br \/>\n&#8211; Speaking of filk, listen free to both of my albums:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/distorted-vision\">Distorted Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/truths-and-lies-and-make-believe\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a><br 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convention, happening this weekend at the RDU Embassy Suites (with some events in the nearby Hampton Inn). (Professor Schrodington, the illogiCon mascot.) Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got going on: Friday: 7:00 p.m. &#8212; Opening Ceremonies &#8212; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/its-only-logical-that-ill-be-at-illogicon\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,164,277,386],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-filk","tag-science-fiction-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}