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[xiphias]

At the Yom Kippur break-fast, ron_newman told us that there's an XKCD meetup tomorrow in North Cambridge. 2:38 PM, at a park in North Cambridge.

See, it's because of the xkcd comic here. It's possible that the correct time is 1438 UST instead of 1438 local time, but most people are going to try to be there at 2:38.

Lis and I are going to try to make it, but if 1300 people from all around t he world show up to squeeze into a tiny little neighborhood park, it's unlikely that we'll actually see anyone SPECIFIC we're looking for.

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

If he's there, I doubt I'll see him -- there will be enough people that encountering one person will be nothing.

In any case, I can dissasociate a creator from their creation. I still like Orson Scott Card's writing, for instance.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

I still like Orson Scott Card's writing, for instance.

I agree, and I think he's the canonical example here.

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

Ah but you have never meet Orson Scott Card. I know Card's beliefs and I do not agree with them.

I don't know if you have meet him before. He will be the loud blond in the center of the crowd telling everyone that without him they would be nothing.

The kid is wicked stuck up and can not be told much of anything.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Actually, I HAVE met Orson Scott Card at that Boskone where he was the guest of honor. I found that I could deal with him just fine socially for short periods of time so long as we didn't talk about anything. If an actual conversation seemed like it would break out, I would just excuse myself and go elsewhere.

I avoided his GoH speech and any panels he was on. And with that, I was fine. Some of my friends avoided the con -- and Vericon this past year where he was also a guest -- and I do sympathize with their point of view. But I went to that Boskone, and I would have gone to that Vericon, if I ever went to Vericon. The presense of a guest whose beliefs I find distasteful will not prevent me from going somewhere, most of the time, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from having reasonably civil discourse with that guest, nor will it, most of the time, prevent me from enjoying that person's work.

Most of the time. I don't claim that this would universally be true for me, or that it should be true for anyone else.

But I don't