Paul Cornell’s GoH interview was a lot of fun. I have video, and hopefully that will be OK when I get around to editing it.
After that I went for a walk and sampled Butlers’ Chocolate Cafe (why have a coffee shop when you can have a chocolate shop?). There are lots of really nice little shops in Dublin. I have cheese photos that I need to upload to Twitpic.
Back at the hotel, I attended the relationships panel. We learned a lot. Apparently a common interest in science fiction is a good basis for a relationship, unless only one of you is a John Norman fan. Reading SF tends to broaden the mind and inform you about alternative types of relationship. However, dating the undead is not recommended, especially zombies as they have an unfortunate tendency to lose bits of their anatomy at inconvenient moments. The panel’s advice to lonely geeks (of either gender) desperate to get a date was, “bathe”.
Programming is over for the day, save for a casino. Most people are in the bar. I am sat out in the function space attending an SFSFC board meeting by Skype. Yes, I am boring.
Go you, though. I once tried to attend a Readercon meeting with Skype. It did not work well at all.
Skype itself is not an issue, provided that you have decent bandwidth. The big problem is hearing people at the other end. You need a good quality speakerphone, and you need to make sure that the people who are physically present are not seated too far away from that phone.
haven’t had a proper chance to chat yet – hope to pull that off today!