He was at Worldcon in Yokohama and co-presented the Hugo awards ceremony. I found him incredibly impressive as a speaker. He was representing the best side of America: socially aware, multilingual, incredibly sharp-witted.
Yes, indeed. At one point, he was winding up one of the other speakers (a hispanic woman who is head of equal opportunities at Ames) about pronouncing his name wrong, and flipped into fluent Spanish as he did it.
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Date: 2007-10-12 09:59 am (UTC)There are a couple of pictures among my Flickr set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/valendon/sets/72157602344856544/ so you can squee some more.
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Date: 2007-10-15 07:21 pm (UTC)