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library_lynn browsed a bit of the Dealer's Room together, and admired the silks that Ruth Brown did. We also were impressed with the fancy polyhedra dice at another table, and looked at wooden jigsaw puzzles from "Fantanimals."
The "YAFA" (Young adults fan activities) section was a loud place full of controlled chaos, more or less. They had inflatable poofs that looked like bean bag chairs (but because they were air-filled, they behaved more like mini waterbed mattresses), about half a dozen or so video game stations, and all of the people working the area had bleached their hair. The kids had their hair colored one day. I heard a great ruckus and commotion coming from the area when we were in the dealers room, and went to check it out.
The YAFA kids had all signed up to be on one of two teams -- the "Brainwrong" or "Notright" teams. One of the responsible adults was acting as umpire for one game, where two more adults were playing the parts of prisoners to be punished. The two teams were lined up behind a prisoner each, and every kid was carrying some kind of poof. Giant inflatable hammers, inflatable baseball bats, and so forth. As near as I can tell, the idea was to see which team could file by and have each member take a whack at their victim. A number of the kids couldn't stop at just one swing, and whaled away on the hapless adult three or four times -- which slows down their team, of course, because everyone has to file by. Noisy, violent, and it looked like the kids were having a helluvalotta fun.
Antje Brand and Petra Kufner, both from Poing, Germany, were dressed as humans from an alternate earth. They were in purple robes with silver sigils painted on the robes and their faces, and their hair was oddly tied up and spiky.
Heidi Lyshol and Herman Ellingsen invited me to the Friendly Norwegians' Party, in the Oban room Friday night. Same room as the Swedes on Saturday and the Finns on Sunday.
There's a snack bar -- or at least a seating area -- on the west end of the SECC that's called "Quay West." I explained the pun tolibrary_lynn, who didn't know that in north america, Quay is pronounced the same as Key. Grant Kruger and about four other people were having a little writers' group meeting there, so I left them alone.
Sally Woehrle wants us to use a different picture of her for the Fan Gallery, as the one in there now is ten years old, and she'd lost weight and cut her hair since. She volunteered to take some of the Fan Gallery photos from here to Seattle. The Fan Gallery exhibit in Seattle will be an odd hodgepodge. Some poeple we have two photos of (like Alison Freebairn), so the alternate one will go to Seattle. Most married couples in the exhibit are being shown here as a couple shot, and the individuals will be shipped to Seattle. And there are more photos here than will fit in the shipping cases (which will go by sea home to California), so I'll be packing a few dozen in my luggage. Finally, the enlargements that we made and mounted at Noreascon 4 will be sent to the NASFiC.
Speaking of enlargements, Sharon Sbarsky is here on site, and told me that they used about $100 worth of materials to make the Fan Gallery blow-ups. I'll see if Ewan Chrystal can reimburse that, otherwise I'll hit up SCIFI for it -- we still have money left in our last allocation to expand and maintain the exhibit.
I spotted Fred Smith browsing the S's in the Fan Gallery. From the back, he looked a bit like Lars-Olav. He said that he was looking at all the people that he already knew in print. Well, that's what the exhibit's for...
TAFF winnersvtompkins and her husband jerrykaufman ran into me at the Fan Gallery. I took a couple shot of them in the exhibit. Suzle doesn't care for the photo we've got, and snagged a better one from my web page to use in the Program Book. I asked her to send it back to me, so we can rebuild, and so that we can replace her photo with the one she liked better from my site.
Will Dunston had hand-make books in the dealers room. He takes thin brass sheets, etch art on the cover, and sells them wraped around blank books. It's a beautiful line of work. He has a website.
zarabee is on one of the newszine teams, it's her first time. I've asked if she'd be interested in joining the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
laconiv team. She was wearing an "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine" t-shirt.
Finally caught up to Cathy Holroyd to hand off the "Browncoat" ribbons.
Matt Lawrence (technoronin.com) volunteered to give me backup or mirror space for my web site.
Gary Robe said he caught me on tv, and videotaped it with his camera. He'll send me a copy.
Alasdair Hepburn and Allison Ewing suggested I try "John Lewis" in Buchanan Galleries, near Queen Street Station, as a place to find a good umbrella.
I gavechriso and johno the pack of "Friend of JohnO" ribbons I'd found at home. I also dropped off the "Timebinders" ribbons at the laconiv table because Joyce Scrivner had been spotted, and would probably be reporting back there later.
I sat on one of the blue sectional couches in Hall 2, working on processing my photos so far. (Remember I said I take about a hundred photos a day? As of the end of day 6 -- counting Sunday through Friday -- I have about 600 photos.) I was really tired and dozed off at one point. When I woke up I found a slip of paper next to me telling me the press had taken my picture whilst I was asleep.
While awake, Megan Totusek came by and looked at some of my photos, until she had to dash off to another appointment.
Jim Briggs was sporting several "Interthingie II" ribbons, including a "Clan Thyngye" ribbon. If I'd known there were official hoax "Clan Thyngye" ribbons, I wouldn't have spent my money on mine... He said that Sharon Sbarsky had them. I later ran into Seth Breidbart and he gave me that one, "Hoax", "Site Selection", and "This Ribbon No Verb." I kept "Clan Thyngye" and "Site Selection" and left the other two (which were shades of pink or light red) onlibrary_lynn's bed.
I had run out of battery power on my laptop, so I'd left the SECC and headed back up to the room. I didn't make it back to thelaconiv table at 6 o'clock like I was supposed to -- but at about 7, I got a call from Lynn and the gang on Ed Hooper's phone. They'd gone to dinner, and told me to go up Corunna and turn left at the laundrette (i.e. at Argyle), look for the Adriatic, you can't miss it. It turns out I should have gone as far as Argyle and looked around for the Adriatic before crossing the street and turning left, because it was actually in the other direction. By the time I caught up with them, after going all the way up to The Goat at Argyle and Haugh, in the chilly shade of the buildings (you'll recall that my coat's at the cleaners), it was almost 8 o'clock, so I had to turn around and head back to the SECC to see "Lucas Back in Anger." I took a taxi.
On Friday,
library_lynn browsed a bit of the Dealer's Room together, and admired the silks that Ruth Brown did. We also were impressed with the fancy polyhedra dice at another table, and looked at wooden jigsaw puzzles from "Fantanimals."The "YAFA" (Young adults fan activities) section was a loud place full of controlled chaos, more or less. They had inflatable poofs that looked like bean bag chairs (but because they were air-filled, they behaved more like mini waterbed mattresses), about half a dozen or so video game stations, and all of the people working the area had bleached their hair. The kids had their hair colored one day. I heard a great ruckus and commotion coming from the area when we were in the dealers room, and went to check it out.
The YAFA kids had all signed up to be on one of two teams -- the "Brainwrong" or "Notright" teams. One of the responsible adults was acting as umpire for one game, where two more adults were playing the parts of prisoners to be punished. The two teams were lined up behind a prisoner each, and every kid was carrying some kind of poof. Giant inflatable hammers, inflatable baseball bats, and so forth. As near as I can tell, the idea was to see which team could file by and have each member take a whack at their victim. A number of the kids couldn't stop at just one swing, and whaled away on the hapless adult three or four times -- which slows down their team, of course, because everyone has to file by. Noisy, violent, and it looked like the kids were having a helluvalotta fun.
Antje Brand and Petra Kufner, both from Poing, Germany, were dressed as humans from an alternate earth. They were in purple robes with silver sigils painted on the robes and their faces, and their hair was oddly tied up and spiky.
Heidi Lyshol and Herman Ellingsen invited me to the Friendly Norwegians' Party, in the Oban room Friday night. Same room as the Swedes on Saturday and the Finns on Sunday.
There's a snack bar -- or at least a seating area -- on the west end of the SECC that's called "Quay West." I explained the pun to
library_lynn, who didn't know that in north america, Quay is pronounced the same as Key. Grant Kruger and about four other people were having a little writers' group meeting there, so I left them alone.Sally Woehrle wants us to use a different picture of her for the Fan Gallery, as the one in there now is ten years old, and she'd lost weight and cut her hair since. She volunteered to take some of the Fan Gallery photos from here to Seattle. The Fan Gallery exhibit in Seattle will be an odd hodgepodge. Some poeple we have two photos of (like Alison Freebairn), so the alternate one will go to Seattle. Most married couples in the exhibit are being shown here as a couple shot, and the individuals will be shipped to Seattle. And there are more photos here than will fit in the shipping cases (which will go by sea home to California), so I'll be packing a few dozen in my luggage. Finally, the enlargements that we made and mounted at Noreascon 4 will be sent to the NASFiC.
Speaking of enlargements, Sharon Sbarsky is here on site, and told me that they used about $100 worth of materials to make the Fan Gallery blow-ups. I'll see if Ewan Chrystal can reimburse that, otherwise I'll hit up SCIFI for it -- we still have money left in our last allocation to expand and maintain the exhibit.
I spotted Fred Smith browsing the S's in the Fan Gallery. From the back, he looked a bit like Lars-Olav. He said that he was looking at all the people that he already knew in print. Well, that's what the exhibit's for...
TAFF winner
svtompkins and her husband jerrykaufman ran into me at the Fan Gallery. I took a couple shot of them in the exhibit. Suzle doesn't care for the photo we've got, and snagged a better one from my web page to use in the Program Book. I asked her to send it back to me, so we can rebuild, and so that we can replace her photo with the one she liked better from my site.Will Dunston had hand-make books in the dealers room. He takes thin brass sheets, etch art on the cover, and sells them wraped around blank books. It's a beautiful line of work. He has a website.
zarabee is on one of the newszine teams, it's her first time. I've asked if she'd be interested in joining the laconiv team. She was wearing an "Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine" t-shirt.Finally caught up to Cathy Holroyd to hand off the "Browncoat" ribbons.
Matt Lawrence (technoronin.com) volunteered to give me backup or mirror space for my web site.
Gary Robe said he caught me on tv, and videotaped it with his camera. He'll send me a copy.
Alasdair Hepburn and Allison Ewing suggested I try "John Lewis" in Buchanan Galleries, near Queen Street Station, as a place to find a good umbrella.
I gave
chriso and johno the pack of "Friend of JohnO" ribbons I'd found at home. I also dropped off the "Timebinders" ribbons at the laconiv table because Joyce Scrivner had been spotted, and would probably be reporting back there later.I sat on one of the blue sectional couches in Hall 2, working on processing my photos so far. (Remember I said I take about a hundred photos a day? As of the end of day 6 -- counting Sunday through Friday -- I have about 600 photos.) I was really tired and dozed off at one point. When I woke up I found a slip of paper next to me telling me the press had taken my picture whilst I was asleep.
While awake, Megan Totusek came by and looked at some of my photos, until she had to dash off to another appointment.
Jim Briggs was sporting several "Interthingie II" ribbons, including a "Clan Thyngye" ribbon. If I'd known there were official hoax "Clan Thyngye" ribbons, I wouldn't have spent my money on mine... He said that Sharon Sbarsky had them. I later ran into Seth Breidbart and he gave me that one, "Hoax", "Site Selection", and "This Ribbon No Verb." I kept "Clan Thyngye" and "Site Selection" and left the other two (which were shades of pink or light red) on
library_lynn's bed.I had run out of battery power on my laptop, so I'd left the SECC and headed back up to the room. I didn't make it back to the
laconiv table at 6 o'clock like I was supposed to -- but at about 7, I got a call from Lynn and the gang on Ed Hooper's phone. They'd gone to dinner, and told me to go up Corunna and turn left at the laundrette (i.e. at Argyle), look for the Adriatic, you can't miss it. It turns out I should have gone as far as Argyle and looked around for the Adriatic before crossing the street and turning left, because it was actually in the other direction. By the time I caught up with them, after going all the way up to The Goat at Argyle and Haugh, in the chilly shade of the buildings (you'll recall that my coat's at the cleaners), it was almost 8 o'clock, so I had to turn around and head back to the SECC to see "Lucas Back in Anger." I took a taxi.
your website
Date: 2005-08-08 03:01 pm (UTC)I noticed that you said a server crash caused you to lose content. You can try www.archive.org and use the Wayback machine to get to your pre-crash web pages. That might help you recover some.
Re: your website
Date: 2005-08-09 02:44 pm (UTC)