Tag: Doxacon Seattle

Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (November 5-11)

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Welcome to this week’s digest! Even as we prepare for our convention, we want to give a shout out to Grit City Comic Show, taking place at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center this weekend. Check it out at their website! Doxacon Seattle 2024 preparations continue on for us – we’re eagerly anticipating our convention on …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 29-November 4)

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Welcome to this week’s digest! Before we kick off, we want to give a shout out to Doxacon, from whom we got our inspiration to start Doxacon Seattle. This year they are celebrating ten years of conventions, with their tenth gathering taking place this coming weekend. Though we’re on the other side of the country, …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 22-28)

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We’re here again with our weekly geek trivia tidbits. Some fun ones coming up over this week, some of which we include below, other’s that we simply couldn’t get to due to space limitations. If you haven’t bookmarked it already, check out a MUCH fuller weekly list that BoardGameGeek puts out – we review it …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 15-21)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. But before you jump into those, we want to let you know that tickets for Doxacon Seattle 2024 are available for purchase! There is a $10 discount for early bird purchasing. If …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 8-14)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. By the way, we uploaded another video from last years Doxacon Seattle – Tim Brown’s presentation Exploring Home: Here and There, Now and Then. Check it out at our YouTube channel! October …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 1-7)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. Remember that we’re going to be having our final Doxaday of 2024 – a meetup at GeekGirlCon 2023 (Saturday, October 7). Our plan is to get together at a restaurant outside of …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 24 – September 30)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. In case you missed it, we want to be sure you see last week’s call for presenters for Doxacon Seattle 2024. Our theme for 2024 is “At the End of All Things: …

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Doxacon Seattle 2024 – Call for Presenters!

We are now accepting proposals for presentations at Doxacon Seattle 2024! A presentation could be any of several things: a talk given by one speaker, a panel discussion, a workshop or hands-on activity, a one-shot gaming session, and more! Our theme for 2024 is “At the End of All Things: Utopias, Dystopias, and the Persistence …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 17 – September 23)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. A couple of bits of news before this week’s geekery. First off all, we’re starting to upload videos of the various presentations at Doxacon Seattle 2023. You can check out the first …

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