{"id":2440,"date":"2009-07-10T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2009-07-10T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:00:30","slug":"on-shore-leave-2009-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"On Shore Leave 2009, Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so it begins, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shore-leave.com\/\">Shore Leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shore Leave, of course, is the media SF convention I&#8217;ve been attending for a decade now.  (Wow, does time ever fly&#8230;)  Guests this year include Robert Picardo and Ethan Phillips.  On the pure coolness factor, Johnathon Schaech of <i>That Thing You Do!<\/i> is on the guest list; knowing me, I&#8217;ll see him and shout, &#8220;ZOMG!  It&#8217;s the Oneders!&#8221; or something.<\/p>\n<p>My schedule for today looks like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Meet The Pros<\/b> &mdash; Hunt\/Valley Foyer, 10pm to Whenever<br \/>This is where I get to autograph stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Pros is a fun little party-like thing.  I&#8217;m planning on having my Nintendo DS handy, in case anyone wants to Pictochat.  (I&#8217;ve had a DS for <i>years<\/i>, and I have <i>never<\/i> Pictochatted.  Is &#8220;Pictochatted&#8221; even a <i>word<\/i>?)  If not, I&#8217;ll play Sudoku, or possibly even <i>LEGO Battles<\/i>, which is a lot like <i>WarCraft<\/i>, but with LEGO minifigs and a sucky interface.<\/p>\n<p>Things I&#8217;ll sign?  For <i>Star Trek<\/i> &mdash; <i>Constellations<\/i>, <i>No Limits<\/i>, <i>Grand Designs<\/i>, the <i>Millennium<\/i> omnibus.  For <i>Doctor Who<\/i> &mdash; <i>The Quality of Leadership<\/i>, <i>Re:Collections<\/i>.  And I&#8217;ll gladly sign issues of <i>Previews<\/i>, too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What else is going on today?  There&#8217;s a comedy roast of Keith DeCandido.  (I&#8217;m probably going to pass.  Nothing personal.  Just not my thing.)  And there&#8217;s the Pocket Books presentation where they&#8217;ll reveal the next eighteen months worth of <i>Star Trek<\/i> books.<\/p>\n<p>Programming on Fridays is a little light; people just getting in.<\/p>\n<p>It should be fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so it begins, Shore Leave. Shore Leave, of course, is the media SF convention I&#8217;ve been attending for a decade now. (Wow, does time ever fly&#8230;) Guests this year include Robert Picardo and Ethan Phillips. On the pure coolness factor, Johnathon Schaech of That Thing You Do! is on the guest list; knowing me,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2440\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Shore Leave 2009, Day One&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-shore-leave","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}