Denvention Day 2

Day 2 of Denvention is in the history book, at least for us – we went on a Haunted Denver tour and decided to blow off the parties.

The highlight of the day was the Boca Fandom reunion in the Fanac exhibit area (see below, I hope – I’m writing this on my iPhone, so I’m not quite sure how it will turn out).

The panels were ok but not astounding, and the time-keeping was disorganized. Not quite enough for me to volunteer to do it, but close.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the con.

The world is too much with us

As I write this posting, I am about 38,000 feet above Colorado, on JetBlue flight 169. And, as is usually the case on JetBlue, my TV is on.

What’s unusual is what I’m watching: live coverage of passengers evacuating American 31, which returned to LAX when they found smoke in the cabin.

As far as I can tell, everyone is fine, but it sure makes me think about how much has to go right every flight.

I’m also under-impressed with the amount of speculation that the anchors are doing to keep chattering. The phrase “we don’t know” seems to have vanished from the CNN dialect of the English language.

Of course, by the time this actually gets posted, I will have landed. Then I just have to worry about ground traffic, which is mostly not operated by trained professionals.