{"id":2895,"date":"2019-01-18T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2019-01-17T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T03:22:26","slug":"i-thought-i-was-signing-up-for-elon-musks-mars-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/i-thought-i-was-signing-up-for-elon-musks-mars-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought I Was Signing Up for Elon Musk&#8217;s Mars Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, it turns out I signed up for an entirely different thing! This weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marscon.net\/wp\/\">MarsCon<\/a> science fiction and fantasy convention in Williamsburg, VA.<\/p>\n<p>All kidding aside, I went to MarsCon once before, many years ago &#8212; in fact, at a science panel at that MarsCon I was inspired to write my first &#8220;official&#8221; filk song! It&#8217;s a fine convention, with a nice mix of tracks and entertainment, and I&#8217;m pleased that they&#8217;re letting me take part in it.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re keeping me busy, as you can tell:<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Future Laws&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>6 p.m. &#8212; Opening Ceremonies<\/li>\n<li>9 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Adventures and Disasters in Space&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 p.m. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Slide Show &amp; Prize Patrol<\/li>\n<li>5 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Was the Planet Killer a Keynesian Stimulus?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>7 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Tech in the Classrooms&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>8 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;The Delphic Oracle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>10 p.m. &#8212; Open Filking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 a.m. &#8212; Worship Concert &#8212; <em>songs at the intersection of faith and fandom<\/em><\/li>\n<li>11 a.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;Parody Song Writing Techniques&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m. &#8212; Panel, &#8220;The Words, They Are a-Changing&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marscon.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/28535347_10159877264315062_1465069248_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"717\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 65%;\"><em>The MarsCon theme this year is &#8220;The Land of Faerie.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to having a good time with a bunch of great people!<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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entirely different thing! This weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the MarsCon science fiction and fantasy convention in Williamsburg, VA. All kidding aside, I went to MarsCon once before, many years ago &#8212; in fact, at a science panel at that MarsCon I \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/i-thought-i-was-signing-up-for-elon-musks-mars-venture\/\"> 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-2895","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\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}