{"id":1183,"date":"2006-04-15T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2006-04-15T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T14:23:21","slug":"geeking_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Geeking Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel a little sheepish admitting that I hadn’t heard of the annual Minicon<\/A>, the science fiction convention that’s being held in Bloomington this weekend, until someone showed me an article about it in the newspaper.  Harlan Ellison is one of the guests of honor, an author whose work I admire.  And Doug Friauf, who sits with me on the Minneapolis Advisory Committee on People with Disabilities, is the guest fan of honor.  I briefly debated forcing my nurses to sit through a weekend of lectures with titles like “How to Destroy the Earth” and “Battlestar Galactica Geek-Out.”  But I think that I’ll wait until next year.  Whenever I drag my nurses to geeky or political events, I like to give them advance warning so they have time to prepare themselves. <\/DIV>
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I just watched a brief video clip of the upcoming Heroes of Might and Magic V<\/A>.  I might invest a new video card just so I can play this game in all its 3D-rendered glory.  It looks amazing.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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