JCCC4 Land Pony Corral
With JCCC4 about to sail, I'm starting this topic (moderators, please "pin" this for the week to make it convenient to find!) for us landlubbers who won't be on the now-sold-out cruise. Let's use it to discuss land pony stuff, such as upcoming land-based performances and conferences and the things we're up to here on terra firma.
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There we go. Perfectly inconspicuous Land Pony here. I'll be going to ECCC at the end of March, attending Nerd Night Out, among other things.
I'm going to MarsCon; that's on land! (Should I have donned one of those disguises? Hang on, I think I have a pack of fake moustaches in my suitcase…) Half a dozen of my favourite comedy musicians will be there. Yay! I have a spare bed in my hotel room for it, if anyone wants to join.
The Land Pony trots along the shore, watching the ship disappear in the distance. "Boy, it sure is quiet here," he whinnies to himself. "Anyone home? Coulton? Sabourin? DiCostanzo? Anyone? Anyone? Buelller?"
"I Crush Everything," the Land Pony sings softly, as he crushes the hackers who were trying to invade his network beneath his hooves. "I couldn't have done this if I was stuck on a boat with no Internet, and the quiet is helping me concentrate on programming and songwriting. But I do kind of wonder where the other folks from the message board went. It can't possibly be that every participant is on that boat!"
"It would have been easier just to kick in the wall to make room," says the Land Pony, after doing an emergency refrigerator replacement that involved getting a 25" wide fridge down a 26" wide stairway. "But I could never have gotten this done if I was on a boat, so I'm glad I'm here even if it's a bit lonely. Now I can get back to authoring a Web page and finishing up a new parody song! JoCo would probably enjoy it if he were around to hear it."
"Labadee, labadoo, labadah....." the Land Pony hums to himself, thinking about where his Twitter feed is and stir-frying himself some chicken with sriracha and kimchi. "I'm about to close a lease worth several hundred dollars per month.... Couldn't have done that from the boat. Then more hacking, and off to the family event I absolutely couldn't go on the cruise and miss. Hope that JoCo and the Sea Monkeys (which is the name of my Beach Boys cover band) are having lots of fruity drinks with little pink umbrellas in them for me...."
The Land Pony spies a speck in the distance. "Is that my Twitter feed out there? It's too far away for me to tell if the boat has a climbing wall."
The Land Pony's Twitter feed is suddenly saturated with tweets, already nostalgic even though the cruise has only been over for a couple of hours. "No time to get all weepy now," says the Land Pony. "Video or it didn't happen!"