{"id":18,"date":"2007-05-17T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-05-17T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T23:52:00","slug":"off-key-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Off-Key Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this annual thing up at York University: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/accsff\/Introduction.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/span><\/a> (although for some reason their web site seems to stop at 2005).  A few months back I gave a guest lecture up at York, which was evidently a big hit on account of most academic speakers tend to not use terms like &#8220;hand job&#8221; and &#8220;shit-for-brains&#8221; during the course of their presentations. Anyway, one of the people running the course &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.yorku.ca\/english\/people\/faculty\/weiss.html\">Allan Weiss<\/a> by name &mdash; asked me if I wanted to give a talk at this ACCSFF thing. Er, I said.  We&#8217;ll pay you, he told me.  I&#8217;m in, I said.<\/p>\n<p>Now I find I&#8217;m listed as Keynote Speaker.  Ohhhhkay.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve come up with a title.  &#8220;Anachronism, Inattentional Blindness, and the Turd in the Punchbowl:  or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Singularity.&#8221;  I have until June 9 to either figure out what that means, or failing that, to stick so many additional words onto the title that it&#8217;ll take half an hour to read aloud.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.  Better yet, wish it for my audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this annual thing up at York University: the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (although for some reason their web site seems to stop at 2005). A few months back I gave a guest lecture up at York, which was evidently a big hit on account of most academic speakers tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}