{"id":1120,"date":"2004-05-04T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1120.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"worldcon-2005-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/05\/04\/worldcon-2005-interaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon 2005: Interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just signed up for next year&#8217;s World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk\/\"><i>Interaction<\/i><\/a> takes place from 4-8 August 2005, and will be the first Worldcon in Europe since 1995, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcs.gla.ac.uk\/~nk\/intersection\/\"><i>Intersection<\/i><\/a> sailed the Clyde.<\/p>\n<p>In August of 1995:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was a new teacher, fresh out of teacher training college.<\/li>\n<li>Abi was still an accountant.<\/li>\n<li>I was running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowendmac.com\/compact\/classic.shtml\">Mac Classic<\/a>, and had yet to build my first PC.<\/li>\n<li>I had never touched Windows 95.<\/li>\n<li>Internet?  I was still running CompuServe 2.x.  Forums were cool, Usenet was a pain in the neck.  Dial-up at 28.8K was <em>fast<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/authors\/Bob_Shaw.htm\">Bob Shaw<\/a> was still alive.<\/li>\n<li>Mobile phones?  Nahhhh.<\/li>\n<li>Kids?  Nahhhh.<\/li>\n<li>We were a month into owning our first car:  the original Sun Pig!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lots has changed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After retraining as a programmer, I&#8217;m now an IT consultant.<\/li>\n<li>After retraining as a programmer, Abi is now an IT consultant.<\/li>\n<li>After building and running PCs for a decade, I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s not time to switch back to using a Mac.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m very glad to have finished touching Windows 95.<\/li>\n<li>750KBps broadband, our own domain, and our own web site.  Usenet is still a pain in the neck.<\/li>\n<li>My Bob Shaw collection continues to grow. (100+ books, 50+ magazines and anthologies)<\/li>\n<li>Camera phones.<\/li>\n<li>Two kids.<\/li>\n<li>We are a couple of months into owning our second car.  It doesn&#8217;t have a name yet, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to Worldcon, and the next ten years.  I&#8217;m guessing I&#8217;ll be a plumber by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just signed up for next year&#8217;s World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk\/\"><i>Interaction<\/i><\/a> takes place from 4-8 August 2005, and will be the first Worldcon in Europe since 1995, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcs.gla.ac.uk\/~nk\/intersection\/\"><i>Intersection<\/i><\/a> sailed the Clyde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}