Dear Mr. J K of 1 Oak St, Arlington, VA 22131,
If you received a PAX East packet in the mail recently, please don’t try to hitchhike to Boston at the last minute thinking you can get in to PAX East. The kind people at InteractiveTicketing are contacting whom I hope to be kind people at Reed Publishing to have them render the badge they sent invalid, and will instead arrange for a valid badge to be available for my privacy-paranoid, fake-address-using, moronic self to pickup at Will Call in Boston.

Of course, I don’t really know where the badges sent in the mail will actually end up. Perhaps they will go to Arlington, VA. Or, perhaps they will go to Santa’s Workshop at the North Pole, or even Area 51, because zip code 22131 doesn’t even compute in the US Postal System. Yes, I research my obfuscations ahead of time for maximum inefficiency.

Since I have your attention, I would like to vent a little more if you don’t mind. My own stupidity now forces me to wait in Will Call with other hapless goobers who put in wrong addresses, bought last minute tickets, or tried to use their PAX East badges to scrape paint off their siding. I’ll be separated from my friends, whom I don’t want to make suffer due to my extreme ineptitude, for the opening of the event -for who knows how long- on the very first day, and that’s what really ticks me off.

Thanks for listening, and sorry about the invalidated badge. In case you want to hunt me down and exact your revenge, I’ve included a photo.
~The Real JK

One buddy pretty much planned the whole trip, from travel research to hotel arrangements, and the other has been researching quality food and beverage resources. So, when I saw the schedule and instantly wished it was in a more ingestable and collaborative format, I realized I could help out the crew by creating said format. Don’t get me wrong, the original schedule is sufficient and fits with the theme of the site. And I don’t doubt that the packet will contain awesome goodies to include a handier version of the schedule. But the packet is still 2+ weeks away and my logic-based, auto-collating geek brain needs a way to figure out what events overlap, minimal travel distance between events, and then synchronize that with the needs of the other two peeps at the convention.

Blah blah blah, I need to remember that this Journal article is singular in purpose: to provide a spreadsheet version of the PAX East 2010 schedule. Are there a gazillion other people doing the same thing? Probably. Could it look better and have more information? Definitely. But if it helps our crew, perhaps it can help someone else.

Here it is in all the formats available to me through Google Docs:
[Original] [Extra Crispy] [HTML] [CSV] [TXT] [PDF] [XLS] [ODS] [ATOM] [RSS]

Enjoy! And PS, this is definitely a rarely-visited blog- my Mom is probably my most-frequent reader (thanks Mom!). If this helps you out, a comment would be awesome.

Wanted: A better way to collaborate multiple attendees’ desired events; something Web 2.0 would be awesome. Any ideas?