{"id":7139,"date":"2016-04-17T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T08:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2016-04-22T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:04:56","slug":"friends-of-armed-dangerous-party-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7139","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Armed &#038; Dangerous party 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s meatspace party for blog regulars and friends will be held at <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.penguicon.org\/\">Penguicon 2016<\/a>  On Friday, April 29 beginning at <s>9PM<\/s> 10PM.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Pushed back an hour because the original start time conflicted with the time slot assigned for my &#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; event. <\/p>\n<p>The venue is the Southfield Westin hotel in Southfield, Michigan.  It&#8217;s booked solid already; we were only able to get a room there Friday night, and will be decamping to the Holiday In Express across the parking lot on Saturday.  They still have rooms, but I suggest making reservations now.<\/p>\n<p>The usual assortment of hackers, anarchists, mutants, mad scientists, and for all I know covert extraterrestrials will be attending the A&#038;D party.  The surrounding event is worth attending in itself and will be running Friday to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Southfield is near the northwestern edge of the Detroit metro area and is served by the Detroit Metropolitan Airport (code DTW).<\/p>\n<p>Penguicon is a crossover event: half science-fiction convention, half open-source technical conference.  Terry Pratchett and I were the co-guests-of-honor at Penguicon I back in 2003 and I&#8217;ve been back evey year since.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never been to an SF con, you have no idea how much fun this can be.  A couple thousand unusually intelligent people well equipped with geek toys and costumes and an inclination to party can generate a lot of happy chaos, and Penguicon reliably does.  If you leave Monday without having made new friends, you weren&#8217;t trying.<\/p>\n<p>Things I have done at Penguicon: Singing. Shooting pistols. Tasting showcased exotic foods.  Getting surprise-smooched by attractive persons.  Swordfighting. Playing strategy games. Junkyard Wars. Participating in a Viking raid (OK, it turned into a dance-off). Punning contests.  And trust me, you have never been to parties with better conversation than the ones we throw.<\/p>\n<p>Fly in Thursday night (the 28th) if you can because Geeks With Guns (the annual pistol-shooting class founded by yours truly and now organized by John D. Bell) is early Friday afternoon and too much fun to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s meatspace party for blog regulars and friends will be held at Penguicon 2016 On Friday, April 29 beginning at 9PM 10PM. UPDATE: Pushed back an hour because the original start time conflicted with the time slot assigned for my &#8220;Ask Me Anything&#8221; event. The venue is the Southfield Westin hotel in Southfield, Michigan.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7139\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends of Armed &#038; Dangerous party 2016!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacker-culture","category-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}