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Dragon*Con Approacheth!

Tom — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:30:01 +0000

In just a month I’ll be winging my way to Atlanta once again for Dragon*Con! This year my schedule has been spread out lightly like butter across the four days. If you’re going to be at the Con, here’s where you can find me if you’d like to say hey.

Friday August 31

Panel: Tech News
Tom Merritt discusses what it takes to keep up with the ever-changing tech news industry, and how they keep the hit podcast, ‘Tech News Today’ running.
Time: Fri 04:00 pm Location: Crystal Ballroom – Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

FSL Tonight LIVE!
Justin Robert Young and myself will bring you the post-game wrap-up from the FSL championship. Vulcan vs. Lannisport? Coruscant vs. Rivendell? Whatever it ends up being, we’ll be there, with special guests.
Time: Fri 05:30 pm Location: 204 – Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Saturday September 1
Sword and Laser Podcast – LIVE
We’ll do a live version of our audio podcast with a special guest author and take your questions. So get to reading!
Time: Sat 02:30 pm Location: Crystal Ballroom – Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Parsec Awards
The Parsec Awards are the yearly awards for speculative fiction podcasts. I’ll be presenting, and Veronica Belmont will be hosting!
Time: Sun 04:30 pm Location: International North Room – Hyatt

Sunday September 2
Panel: Irrational and Mistaken
Brian Brushwood, myself and some other guests will discuss how public perceptions of science and scams and irrational and mistaken beliefs affect the ability to explain the world in news and entertainment.
Time: 5:30 PM 207 / 206 / 205 – Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Monday September 3
Geek & Sundry Panel!
Meet some of the minds behind Geek & Sundry including The Guild and Sword & Laser!
Time: Mon 10:00 am Location: Grand Ballroom A-F – Sheraton (Length: 1 Hour)

My message to aliens

Tom — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:51:26 +0000

I submitted this video to the National Geographic’s Wow reply project.

In 1977, SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) picked up a strange signal from space — a 72-second burst that became known as The Wow Signal. It’s remained unexplained for 35 years.

As part of the anniversary (and to coincide with NatGeo’s new documentary series “Chasing UFOs”), They’re crowdsourcing a public reply using Twitter – anyone that tweets with a hashtag on the night of June 29th will have their message beamed to space from Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest ground-based radio telescope.

They were nice enough to ask me for a 72-second video message (the same length as the original Wow signal)that will be beamed back along with the tweets. These featured video voices have been selected to represent a cross section of the best in human art, culture and conversation – celebrities, writers, artists, filmmakers, musicians, scientists. etc. And for some reason, me.

I’ll be honest, I’m not so certain that I believe it was an alien signal, it’s more likely Interstellar scintillation of a weaker continuous signal. But we don’t have enough data to know for sure. AND how I could turn down the opportunity to have a video beamed from Arecibo?! I tell you, I couldn’t so enjoy my ramblings at aliens.

comedy4cast #236: Takeover Talk

Tom — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:03:23 +0000

I had fun guest-appearing (word?) with Scott Johnson on on the Comedy4cast!

While trying to convince guest star Tom Merritt (“FourCast!”, “AutoPilot!”) to get on board with a project, Clinton hears some shocking news. Scott Johnson (“The Morning Stream”, FrogPants Studios) and Paul Barrie (“A Window to the Magic”, “WTTM24″) also guest star.

Get the episode.

The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 118): An Interview With Sword and Laser Hosts Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt

Tom — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:11:09 +0000

We were very honored to be invited to sit and chat with Patrick Hester from the SFSignal podcast about the Sword and Laser show. I was worried we’d have to stand but Patrick was very nice in letting us sit. He also was very nice in listening to us go on and on about our dragon and how we love scifi/fantasy books. But then SFSignal is all about SciFi and fantasy so I guess he might have been interested. Plus they got nominated for a Hugo! So we made it up to him by congratulating them.

Anyway if listening to Veronica Belmont’s voice si at all interesting to you, or you like to hear people talk about awesome things, you might want to check it out.

Get the podcast episode here!

Book Guys Show Episode 36: Sword and Laser

Tom — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:47:20 +0000

Veronica and I have been making the rounds talking about the new video version of Sword and Laser. This week we had the distinct pleasure of sitting down and chatting with the Book Guys Show.

Catch the episode here or in the embed below.

Alpha Geek Interviews Episode 22 – Tom Merritt

Tom — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:48:12 +0000

Got a chance to chat with a great geek, Todd Whitehead from Versus the World. We chatted about Geek and Sundry and Sword and Laser and then he got all “Inside the Actor’s Studio” on me. So listen to find out my favorite curse.

Get the episode here.

Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go

Tom — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:20:30 +0000

Had a blast hanging out with the fine folks of Boing Boing on their podcast Gweek. We talk about books, games, and DIY french fries.

Get the episode here.

TFI 09: Tom Merritt Is A Laser

Tom — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:13:42 +0000

Had a great time earlier this week appearing on “The Founder’s Inklings” on Middle Earth Radio Network.

The show is now posted on their Meevio channelpodcast feed.

Reporters’ Roundtable episode 100: 11 predictions for 11/11/11

Tom — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:43:08 +0000

I was super excited to be back on CNET’s Internet Waves with my old co-host Rafe Needleman. His excellent show Reporter’s Roundtable turned 100 episodes old and on geek new year’s 11/11/11 It’s 11/11/11. We go through 11 categories of tech predictions for the next 11 years. Or 11 months. Or 11 centruries. Actually no centuries. Just watch the show.

Get the show here.

KOMO News: Google + goes public.

Tom — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:16:38 +0000

I did a Skype call with old TechTV colleague Matt Markovich who reports for KOMO TV in Seattle. He used some of the comments in his report on Google + opening up to the public.

You can watch the report at the KOMO website.