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My review of Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother is now up on the Tyee.
I've got a quick informational piece for the Courier on the go as well. My current temp job is doing customer service via phone and email for a photo processing web site, which I do 2pm-10pm Thursday to Monday. It messes up my circadian rhythms, such as eating a full dinner in the afternoon and sandwiches at night) and by 10pm, everything is closed. It's also putting a crimp in my social life and I have to keep giving up work days for family events and MVK stuff.
You'd think that having full access to other people's online photo albums would be interesting, but frankly, one set of baby pictures looks pretty much like any other. I suppose it is the "All happy families..." principle at work.
Slick last night was... well, I have mixed feelings about it. Attendance was pretty good, considering it was a new and different event on a weeknight. We scheduled it from 7pm-1am, but after about 11pm, the only people coming in were the venue's regulars. Another significant issue is the meeting of two very different cultures: one in which you're supposed to keep a fair distance from people playing and only get involved with an explicit invitation, the other in which the safe distance is much smaller and joining in is much more casual. A third point is that MVK's Vancouver Dungeon parties are held in an auditorium, in which everybody can see everything. Slick had public areas, but most of the action was in the private rooms.
On the upside, I like the lockers, and I enjoyed the earlier phase of the night, when lots of MVK people were arriving and getting to know the venue. The people seemed to enjoy themselves.
Tags: work, writing
My review of Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother is now up on the Tyee.
I've got a quick informational piece for the Courier on the go as well. My current temp job is doing customer service via phone and email for a photo processing web site, which I do 2pm-10pm Thursday to Monday. It messes up my circadian rhythms, such as eating a full dinner in the afternoon and sandwiches at night) and by 10pm, everything is closed. It's also putting a crimp in my social life and I have to keep giving up work days for family events and MVK stuff.
You'd think that having full access to other people's online photo albums would be interesting, but frankly, one set of baby pictures looks pretty much like any other. I suppose it is the "All happy families..." principle at work.
Slick last night was... well, I have mixed feelings about it. Attendance was pretty good, considering it was a new and different event on a weeknight. We scheduled it from 7pm-1am, but after about 11pm, the only people coming in were the venue's regulars. Another significant issue is the meeting of two very different cultures: one in which you're supposed to keep a fair distance from people playing and only get involved with an explicit invitation, the other in which the safe distance is much smaller and joining in is much more casual. A third point is that MVK's Vancouver Dungeon parties are held in an auditorium, in which everybody can see everything. Slick had public areas, but most of the action was in the private rooms.
On the upside, I like the lockers, and I enjoyed the earlier phase of the night, when lots of MVK people were arriving and getting to know the venue. The people seemed to enjoy themselves.
Tags: work, writing