Notes From The Hall Table

[nemorathwald]

Kids adore the capsule toy vending machine, but none of them have money. And yet I've got a lot of t-shirts in small size. A little girl was trying to turn the handle, so I gave her fifty cents. She won a t-shirt.

Several Chicagoans have won t-shirts. These people do not attend, but maybe they will. Fans, out of state, will be wearing Penguicon 3.0 and 4.0 t-shirts, out of state, and then other fans, out of state, will be reading the shirts and thinking, "hey, there exists such a thing as Penguicon!" Guess where they will do this reading and thinking.

Futurist and SF author Tom Trumpinksi stopped by to trade contact info. At one point he noted that a Singularity is already in progress. That brief comment turned into an hour-long conversation about the economic crash, a pending crash of the higher education system, Bruce Sterling's recent Seed article about pending panics, Kevin Kelly's eight generatives better than free and my mnemonic device for it, and how to mearn a living in a world where things change faster than you can get used to them.