Every ArmadilloCon has a world-building panel, where the panelists and the audience “create” a science-fictional or fantasy world by collective brainstorming. Artist R. Cat…
Two congoers in kilts at ArmadilloCon 2007. While kilts are popular at the ArmadilloCon and science fiction conventions in general, I had not until then…
There were several ArmadilloCon panels with slightly adult content. Some of them had great titles, such as “I Fell in Love with an Octopus”, which…
Here is a presentation I gave at the Women Who Code frontend meetup in Austin, Texas. CSS-in-JS in React.js, using Material UI I discovered the…
As always, Robot Group — an Austin robotics organization — demoed their creatures at the ArmadilloCon. If I understood correctly, they made this purple alien…
I’ve noticed over the years that some of the “What I Should Have Read” panelists have tastes so unlike mine, it’s as if we are…
At this ArmadilloCon I spent a substantial amount of time in the dealer room — on the dealers’ side of the table! I was volunteering…
Editor Guest Sharyn November (left) and the Guest of Honor, SF/F author Louise Marley at the opening ceremony Fan Guest Patty Wells (left) and editor…
The program book said: “Want to hear about the best disasters in the fandom world?” Indeed, some of the fiascos, or merely weird stories, mentioned…
This was the first writers’ workshop I’ve ever been to, and the first time I had my writing critiqued. I was hooked! I left wanting…