Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on September 03, 2004, 01:17:15 AM
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reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=830
well, we survived thursday. The report is long. Hopefully, it's also informative.
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Well, when you ditched us we actually didn't get them into their hotel after all--it wouldn't be for another hour and a half, at that point. So EUOL and Ookla ended up coming with us after all to Chilli Duck, the best Thai restaurant in Boston.
The dance wasn't much to talk about. After wandering through the jugglers, belly dancers, and election craziness (I think they were doing a political convention for SF/F writers?), we went into the Mended Drum and saw some more very nice costumes, like an old couple in Victorian dress. Then there was a strange woman singing badly in the tavern. We finally found the dance, which was only in one of the bigger rooms--I thought it would be in the ballroom--and there were only about 20 people in there, and we'd missed the Renaissance dancing. They were onto fox trot, swing, etc.--and for that, you need a dance partner.
So we wandered about a little more, and Brenna figured out that it was her phone vibrating, not the rail we were leaning against, so she was able to get in touch with her friend that lives in Plymouth. And then I went home.
Long day, but good. I wish I had gone to the horses one. I ended up going to Sally's teaching horror panel, which was also quite good--even though I'm not interested in teaching horror, they brought up a lot of issues that can apply to fantasy in general, too.
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Right. You may e-mail or PM me the purple haird babes phone number.
You *Did* get it for me, right? Right?
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If you see Neil Gaiman there get his autograph for me, por favored?
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Excellent report, but it was in dire need of an editor: mucho typos.
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Good con report. Making me all sad that I'm not there.
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Which reminds me. Sprig, will you give Brenna a login for bs.com? She's offered to be our proofreader. And let me tell ya, you and I REALLY could use one of those.
By the way, I've got another little con-report-thingy up on my blog. Not as long as SE's, and not as detailed, but more EUOLish.
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you can EUOL too, just goto option-->users-->add new user and set her up a password and username. I can do it, but it might be easier for you to do it infrot of her so she can select her password and such.
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Well, I wish I was there. It also makes me wish that BYU put together a better con..er.. symposium.
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Stacer is my copy editor. Hopefully, I can blame her.
fully 2/3 of the report was written in the passenger seat of a '98 Ford Taurus after 10pm. I'm hoping that excuses me from the gross typos. Small keyboard do me in. Incidentally, without checking, I'm going to bet that most of the typos involve missing "I" and "K" keystrokes. Those two keys don't always work on this keyboard.
It wasn't untl was about ready to submit it that I even realized it needed a better intro. So you got it. I hope that the "bosoms" sentence at the end doesn't bother anyone.
For those at the con actually checking the board, Mended Drum wireless connection beats the pants of the Starbucks. It's a little slow, but it at least stays connected.
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OK, some of these Cosplayers just don't have passion for the craft. A Viking jsut passed me. He had a helmet with a nose guard and a fake beard. Also, under the helmet, Sunglasses.
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Excellent report, but it was in dire need of an editor: mucho typos.
I'm afraid that's something I didn't have time for today. I'll try to do a little copyediting tomorrow morning, but that all depends on what time I wake up.
For those at the con actually checking the board, Mended Drum wireless connection beats the pants of the Starbucks. It's a little slow, but it at least stays connected.
I decided not to haul my laptop in each day--I haul enough around that I don't need to add to the luggage. ;D
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Friday's report is written, and will appear on Monday. Saturday's on Tuesday, Sunday's on Wednesday, and Monday's on Thursday. Friday, I'm hoping EUOL has something. BTW, I saw Neo today. And some girl who may or may not have been in costume. I'm sot sure what purple and black striped tights under shorts count as.
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It counts as Hot, that's what it counts as.
I admit I am a man of strange tastes.
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no. No it didn't, Jam. They were thick tights, not revealing tights. And well, i'm just glad what was hidden remained so.
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Okay, Sprig. I'll do it. Way to be a zen-webmaster. (I cannot teach you to fight. I can only teach you to learn how to fight....)
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You know, even knowing who a lot of you guys are, I really don't understand what you're talking about. Is it the air of the con doing this to you, or have I just not read enough of everyone's posts?
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. How do you know us? And more to the point (Ben is reading with me), are you single and good looking?
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Is it the air of the con doing this to you, or have I just not read enough of everyone's posts?
I think (emphasis on think) that she means that she has been reading posts for a while, so she knows you that way. Am I right Sigyn?
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She's said she's in Utah, so I have a feeling she knows a few of us irl.
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So everybody just left my house. (Okay, not just. I have been taking out my Jane hair while my computer booted up.) Kinda nice to have an evening in a real house with everyone instead of at a restaurant or in a hotel room. Especially 'cause it was my house and I didn't have to take the T home really late at night, like I have the last few days. Not that it's not safe, it's just annoying. It's weird, but breakdowns have happened to me much more frequently at night on the T than during the day/rush hour.
As far as a report of the day, Brenna and I got a lot of mileage out of "Skreee!" and ninja monkeys, as there was a game called Monkeys on the Moon, which of course was a typo and should have been Ninja Monkeys on the Moon. And the doodling grew from there. Soon there was an entire Ninja Monkey Love Story.
EUOL had 2 panels today. The first one was the best panel I've been to all weekend, covering the balance between science and religious belief. I'm sure SE will cover it more thoroughly in the report, but the discussion was a good balance and very good natured. I don't know if I should admit it, but I was rather distracted by ninja monkeys during his second panel.
And the Salt Vampire (thanks Brenna) struck my house during dinner, but we all survived, for rather than destroy us all, he chose to do the dishes instead. (Thanks, and thanks Tage for more dish duty.)
I may bring cake leftovers for lunch tomorrow. First come, first served.
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yeah, but they won't see my report till thursday. which reminds me, gotta get day 2 up....
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Um, in reply, I'm married and not good looking, but I know some you from TLE from years ago, that and I'm in EUOL's writing group. Do Salt Vampires always do the dishes?
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You'd have to ask EUOL about that.
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Hey EUOL,
I tried to log in to your website to start fixing spelling and such, and I got this message:
"You could not be logged in! Either the username and password do not match or you have not validated your membership!
Please try again!"
Someone is very exclamation point happy. Also, I can't log in (as you can tell). Help, please.
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Everything is case sensitive Brenna, you're log in name is lower case. Dono your password since it's encrypyted in the data base. If trying the lowercase dosen't work e-mail me (my address is in my forum profile) with what password you want so I can put it in.
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It didn't work, so I sent you an email. Thanks for the help!