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krj
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Confusion 1999
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Jan 20 09:44 UTC 1999 |
I think it's time for this annual item. I'm so gafiated I'm not
even sure when Confusion is, but I think it's this coming weekend.
Perhaps some of you will file con reports as teasers for those
of us who aren't going to be there.
(A request: if one wants to dump in a huge amount of promotional
information (like the program schedule) please put it in a
separate item.)
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anderyn
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response 1 of 11:
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Jan 21 01:22 UTC 1999 |
It is this weekend, and I guess I'm going. Not that I plan on staying
long, since I have to work the Ark that night, but I guess I want to
see Lois McMaster Bujold more than I want to bum around the house on
Saturday.
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robh
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response 2 of 11:
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Jan 21 13:05 UTC 1999 |
I plan on being there.
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krj
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response 3 of 11:
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Jan 22 04:14 UTC 1999 |
Who's at the Ark? Twila, you *never* stay for the parties!!
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anderyn
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response 4 of 11:
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Jan 22 14:35 UTC 1999 |
Um, well, Mustard's Retreat, and I signed up to work the show before
I realized that the con was this weekend, so poot.... anyhow... I dunno
if I'd *like* the parties --- I never have made one...
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krj
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response 5 of 11:
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Jan 25 19:24 UTC 1999 |
So, will anyone bring us a con report?
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robh
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response 6 of 11:
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Jan 25 19:33 UTC 1999 |
It was fun. I'll enter more when I get home from work. >8)
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robh
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response 7 of 11:
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Jan 26 05:01 UTC 1999 |
OK, con stuff. I took second place in the Babylon 5 trivia
contest, found out that one of my oldest friends in fandom
was dead (not a fun way to start the weekend), went to
several panels (topics: the Y2K problem, the year in SF
media, the Disneyfication of modern storytelling, and
whether SF fans are more tolerant than the culture at large),
spent three hours at the hotel restaurant trying to get dinner,
got lots of good art from the art show, books and a fox
puppet (his name is Reynard) from the dealers' room, played
Stun Runner in the arcade five times and got five of the
top ten scores, played a few games by the poolside, and met
lots of old friends I hadn't seen in two years.
That sums up my weekend!
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anderyn
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response 8 of 11:
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Jan 27 02:16 UTC 1999 |
A-ha! I wondered if that was you, Rob~! I was at the B5 panel,
and thought that there might have been someone I kinda knew on
there.
Um. Went only Saturday, for part of the day. Saw Bujold, went to
eh Art show, had a nice lunch at the restaurant next door, um,
talked to some folks, headed back to Ann Arbor....
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tpryan
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response 9 of 11:
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Jan 27 04:26 UTC 1999 |
I took second place in the B5 quiz last year. This year not]
even qualified, but attended.
Russ Cage built a smoke ejector for the smoking con-suite, it
did work, keeping the smoke out of the hallway and almost making the
room tolerable to non-smokers.
I wonder if ConFusion is the only 1,000 person even that is
held at that hotel any weeekend of the year. They seem to fall on
some of the support issues, like bathrooms out of hand paper towels
by noon.
I got more books to the Klingons at the Alien Empire table
to help them raise money for Leader Targs (Dogs) for the Blind. AE
was also showing the first productions of "babylon park".
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void
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response 10 of 11:
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Feb 6 14:04 UTC 1999 |
i spent much of my con gophering in the art show.
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dea
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response 11 of 11:
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Apr 8 02:17 UTC 1999 |
i have heard that the con this year was not one of its best years, i hope they
do much better next year.
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