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It's always interesting to watch people plan things. You know -- I could sit and watch it for hours. It's so delightful, so nuanced and unpredictable, so very foreign to my experience.

Exhibit A: Jason plans for Dragon*Con. Start in the morning with a cheery, "I've never been there, but I've heard it's fun, and I'll probably just hang out all day," followed by an immediate realization that there are something like six days worth of interesting programming, crammed into a 4-day con. Cue existential whiplash.

I mean, it's an understandable mistake. Going to a con for the programming? Who does that?

But nonetheless, Jason gamely struggles on with a vastly changed set of assumptions. To quote:

Here I was thinking that the programming schedule was probably full of unusually geeky things that there'd be no way in hell that I'd enjoy, so I could spend 90% of my time photographing. And now I look, and yes it's full of geeky things, but suddenly I could find an excuse to fill every single daylight hour probably with something to go see.

(Well, duh, you're a geek. Fancy that.)

And of course, as Moltke said: "No plan survives contact with the enemy." It's touching, really.

Gambare.

words from chris, 2009-08-27 03:14:31, los angeles