Author: Backpacking Dad

I’m from eastern Ontario, and I’ve lived in upstate New York (as upstate as you can get), but despite spending most of my life in that area I’ve never once been to New York City. Toronto. Montreal. Vancouver. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Washington D.C., Seattle. London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Venice, Rome. Tokyo….

I’ve written before about being a geek and doing geeky things like going to comic book/science fiction conventions, with Erin in tow. I’m not sure how it came to my attention, but there was a convention in San Jose this weekend called Super Con. I didn’t know much about it, and in reading the web…

I’m going to help kill a couple of memes right here. I’m tired after a few busy days, and I can’t organize my thoughts well enough to write those days up, so I’ll let some friends do my organizing for me. First, from Helen comes this "open the book" meme: Open the nearest book: It…