{"id":22577,"date":"2010-06-28T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/announcement-i%e2%80%99ll-be-at-w00tstock-baby-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-06-28T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:30:31","slug":"announcement-i%e2%80%99ll-be-at-w00tstock-baby-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/announcement-i%e2%80%99ll-be-at-w00tstock-baby-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: I\u2019ll be at w00tstock, baby! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I extremely nerded out and pleased and squeeified to announce that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/w00tstock.net\/2010\/07\/22\/072210-san-diego-ca-4th-b\/\">I&rsquo;ll be at w00tstock<\/a>! At Comic Con. <em>On stage.<\/em><\/p><p>I <em>know<\/em>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/wootstock-web-600.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9a82d_w00tstock.jpg\" alt=\"w00tstock\" width=\"300\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18131\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>w00tstock, for those helplessly normal of you out there, is the premier nerd event in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. Hosted by singers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\">Paul and Storm<\/a>, Mythbuster and My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage&trade;, and my long-standing and partially-requited nerdcrush Wil Wheaton, w00tstock is billed as \"Three hours of geeks and music\", which is apt enough. Everyone I know who has gone has raved about it.<br><span><\/span><br>And cripes, the talent they get. Bill Corbett, Mike Nelson, and Kevin Murphy from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rifftrax.com\/\">Rifftrax<\/a>, n&eacute;e Mystery Science Theater 3000. Chris Hardwick, aka <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdist.com\/\">The Nerdist<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lenperalta.com\/\">Len Peralta<\/a>, about whom you&rsquo;ll be hearing more on this blog pretty shortly. And oh my FSM, I&rsquo;m really thrilled that my favorite fire-haired songstress <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/06\/15\/marian-call-in-boulder-july-3-4\/\">Marian Call<\/a> will be there as well. Apparently I wasn&rsquo;t the only one <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/paulandstorm\/status\/16507868064\">who sent a note<\/a> to TPTB to get her on stage. <\/p><p>One cool thing about w00tstock is that all the stuff done on stage is Creative Commons licensed, so it goes up immediately on Flickr and YouTube. In fact, there are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=w00ttock&amp;aq=f\">a lot of videos from previous versions online<\/a> you can check out. If you&rsquo;re a bona fide nerd you&rsquo;ll enjoy them.<\/p><p>To say I&rsquo;m excited and honored is like saying a gamma-ray burst is kinda bright, or a neutron star is somewhat dense, or a Planck length is a tad minuscule. <\/p><p>I&rsquo;m that excited.<\/p><p>And of course initially panicked over a topic. But then Mrs. BA inspired me, and suddenly, full blown like Minerva from the brow of Jupiter, an idea burst forth from my brain. So now all I have to do is put it together and keep it to ten minutes. Good thing I&rsquo;m not long-winded.<\/p><p>Anyway, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/0A0044D1A0403099?artistid=1459021&amp;majorcatid=10001&amp;minorcatid=60\">you can get tickets for this<\/a>, but you&rsquo;d better hurry because Comic Con is Geek Central and I&rsquo;m sure they&rsquo;ll sell out this week. <\/p><p>And as if that&rsquo;s not enough, I&rsquo;ll have even <em>more<\/em> Comic Con news soon. Mwuhahahaha!<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y6s8VKqjOyOSaWyyF1O-G0uTB_Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/56756_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Y6s8VKqjOyOSaWyyF1O-G0uTB_Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/56756_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/56756_fK9co_3PqaE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/56756_zePerSsZ-TY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I extremely nerded out and pleased and squeeified to announce that I&rsquo;ll be at w00tstock! At Comic Con. On stage.I know.w00tstock, for those helplessly normal of you out there, is the premier nerd event in the Orion arm of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/announcement-i%e2%80%99ll-be-at-w00tstock-baby-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}