Description in the program book: Ever wonder why your favorite author looks a little scared when they see you? The panelists will talk about the…
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…
Description in the program book: Maybe it’s flirting; maybe it’s friendship; maybe it’s a lifelong relationship. Finding romance in all its forms and guises in…
What is chupaqueso? To quote Linucon program book, “The experts prepare cheese in a fried cheese shell, with extra cheese. The audience gets to eat…
Rob Landley (in a black T-shirt with caffeine formula) is mixing ice cream, to be frozen later with nitrogen vapor. Cathy Raymond (in a grey…
Many science fiction conventions I attended had a masquerade, but this was the first one where it was called cosplay. In any case, it’s just…
On Saturday morning there was a Fun With Liquid Nitrogen event in the Consuite. The masters of liquid nitrogen “cooked” various food items in it,…
On Friday I went to a discussion panel “Adventures in Costuming”, where the panelists were Cathy Raymond (wife of Eric Raymond of open source fame,…
While we were in Lithuania, we went to the annual picnic of the Vilnius science fiction club Dorado. The picnic took place in Pūčkoriai. It…
Costumes from Linucon 2004 masquerade and hallways The seduction of Tux the Penguin in three parts What would Linucon be without Tux the Penguin? No…