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Why Gretchen Miller is the Best Person Ever

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [personal]
Published: 14 February 2014
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Not every friend is someone able to move heaven and earth for you, but it's important to recognize more subtle contributions.

Also, I did three stories about "Best Person Ever" and only mentioned men. Shame on me.

So here is Gretchen Miller, whom I mostly know as a professional colleague, and for much of the past two years, a shared traveller in that realm known as "long-term unemployment."

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Why George Takei is the Best Person Ever

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [science fiction]
Published: 13 February 2014
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Yes, I'm an unabashed fan. I'm not apologizing for it. Ever.

Since around the time I was old enough to be aware of such things, I was a fan of Star Trek. Unfortunately, that was the year NBC cancelled it, so I mostly recall watching it as reruns.

In the 1970s, a group of Seattle-area fans got together and founded the Puget Sound Star Trekkers (PSST), under the leadership of Kitty Cantebury who passed away in 2012. PSST ran a Star Trek convention, which grew out of control, lost money left and right and put Kitty into bankruptcy. After the second PSSTCon, a third was held, ostensibly to pay off Kitty's personal debt.

George Takei was the guest of honor that year. It was a single-day convention. He was a real sport, and I believe it was Kitty who presented him with the "Captain Sulu" t-shirt. This was many years before the character showed up in Star Trek 6 as captain of his own ship. I never asked what George's fee was, I wasn't involved in running the convention. He may have come free of charge, as Heinlein had the year before.

But of course, that's not why George Takei is the best person ever.

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Why Wil Wheaton is the Best Person Ever

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: Uncategorised
Published: 13 February 2014
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Yes, I'm an unabashed fan.

I consider Wil Wheaton to be an awesomely descent human being.

That's it.

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I Can Has Cloud? A Blog is Born and More.

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Written by Brian McNett
Category: [administrivia]
Published: 11 February 2014
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Here I am, doing an entire website for the first time in nearly a decade. My how things have changed.

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