Heartbreaking discussion about the last 12 months at NASA. As one panelist put it: “A lot of smart people who think about the future. Where are they going?”

A.C. Charania, Scott G.C. Edgington, Les Johnson, Trina L. Ray, Kim Steadman (not in order)

The sobering realization is how much has changed since Dragon Con twelve months ago.

#dragoncon #space

I grew up with Sesame Street and the Muppets, but I never spent much time thinking about the talent behind the scenes. This panel featured some of that talent:

Cheralyn Lambeth
Costume construction for the Muppets Christmas Carol and other Muppet productions

Dave Goelz
Original Muppet performer, voice of Gonzo and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

Bonnie Erickson
Designer and builder of many iconic Muppet characters including Miss Piggy

Bill Barretta
Muppet performer who voices Swedish Chef and Pepe the King Prawn

It was wonderful to hear their stories about this amazing movie and the Muppet characters—and how they each used their expertise to bring them to life!

#dragoncon #muppets

I looked at the schedule for the #dragoncon American Sci-fi Classics track and realized I must be old… 🤔

The DragonCon schedule is live!

As always, I'll be focusing on the Space, Science, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Robotics and Maker tracks, plus the live performances. On the music front, Charming Disaster is performing at 8:30pm on Sunday (and 4pm on Saturday)—their show was wonderful last year. And, of course, on Monday there is Robot Battles, one of the longest running robotic battle competitions in the world!

As usual, there's just too much to do...

#dragoncon

upcoming plans:

• WorldCon, Seattle, Aug. 13–17, 2025
• Dragon Con, Atlanta, Aug. 28–Sep. 1, 2025

i pains me to miss Gen Con this weekend, but it would be three cons in ~5 weeks!

i think my whole family may make it to dragon con this year—it started out as our annual family vacation, so it's very nice when that still works out.

#worldcon #dragoncon #gencon

I've been on the Fediverse since January 2017. I initially ran a single-user instance of Mastodon. In March 2020 I started to write Ktistec, my own implementation of an ActivityPub server in Crystal (a language with the ergonomics of Ruby but the speed of Go) because I wanted something more supportive of writing. This #introduction was written and published on Epiktistes, my Ktistec instance.

I'm an Engineer by training but now I run teams for companies in climate-tech.

I love #music, #sciencefiction and #fantasy literature (yes, I'm an R. A. Lafferty fan), attend fan conventions like #worldcon and #dragoncon, and do regular #weightlifting. I am also learning to play the #bagpipes, and I'm (re)learning #japanese.

the impact of my fan/gaming convention schedule on my open source contributions this year...

#worldcon #dragoncon

only two weeks between #worldcon and #dragoncon

backyard astronomy workshop thursday night at dragoncon, hilton hotel, downtown atlanta.

#dragoncon

dragon con is over and i'm heading home. i spent much of my time in maker panels this year. attached is a picture of a drone built on a frame made from badminton rackets!

the team that built this was composed of grade school students!

#dragoncon