On to Houston

by | Sep 12, 2012 | Culture and Society | 2 comments

I’m on my way to Houston for the 100 Year Starship symposium, and I should be airborne before this clicks into visibility through the wonders of automation. I’m involved in meetings all day Thursday and then into regular symposium activities for the rest of the weekend, about which I’ll be reporting next week and to a certain extent from the site itself. Last year in Orlando I wound up sending out more tweets than blog posts from the actual venue and this year I’ve decided to more or less play it by ear, seeing what opportunities arise and how best to convey them.

If you’re following me on Twitter as @centauri_dreams, be advised that I don’t know how much I’ll be tweeting, but feel free to ‘unfollow’ me as needed if you start getting more than you bargained for. You can always sign back up again after the symposium. What I’ve learned over the years is that I’m not good at multitasking, and my priority has to be getting accurate notes from the various workshops and technical sessions I’ll be attending. I suspect most of what I have to say about the symposium will be written after I return next week, when I’ll have had the chance to go through my notes and will have an overview of events. Expect sporadic posts here and on Twitter until then.

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2 Comments

  1. ljk on September 13, 2012 at 0:00

    Best of luck to you, Paul, and all the other attendees and speakers. I cannot wait to hear how things went.

    Maybe someone will even declare that at this very moment, a top secret project funded by a consortium of megabillionaires is working on a starship currently hidden behind the Moon or in the Planetoid Belt. :^)

  2. Paul Titze on September 13, 2012 at 4:59

    Ok good luck Paul with the conference. Never got into the Tweeter thing but look forward to your posts on it. If you can also find out if they’ll be making a DVD recording for all the talks and howto buy it that would be handy, thanks.

    Cheers, Paul.

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