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ShockingAlberto said:
Well last night was weird


- Crazy night of IRC where now everyone who was there knows what happened, will never talk about it, and are family now in a weird, uncomfortable way where we're always going to remember what we were told.
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I haven't been to conventions with that, I don't think.
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It's tricky because the word "convention" is really vague. In Manhattan, it means "pub crawl" (see: Santacon), for example. The events I'm particularly talking about are events run explicitly by people in Science Fiction Fandom as a non-profit gathering, typically with little media content, wherein people socializing in some way is the most important aspect. That is to say, not like "Creation Con", which is a for-profit event wherein you pretty much just buy stuff and get some famous person to write their name on a photograph (I never understood this).

Fannish conventions are basically a bunch of fen (that's the plural they use for "fan", because they really, really like puns) who get together in large numbers and just try to find different ways of having fun. Arisia in Boston, for instance, had the following items which are: extremely common to all of this category of convention:
- (getting this out of the way) The usual vendor room, but almost entirely filled with local merchants, which is one way for the poorer attendees to be able to afford to continue going to these events
- A free food room called a "con suite", where anybody can socialize at any time while enjoying generally snacky foods but occasionally real food
- An even better free food room for people who participate in (not just attend) the convention
- Panels discussing unusual subcultures among geeks (in this case, these discussions are often heavy with either topics on disabilities or on alternative relationship/sex lifestyles)
- structured dances; unstructured techno-ish dances (I think I even heard a few wubs this time around)
- hoop jams
- parties from around ~8pm to ~1-2am advertising other, similar conventions
- an area set aside for youngins to hang out without being creeped on
- a panel to explain how to probably flirt without being creepy
- a stargazing night with local astronomers
- a usually gigantic room set aside for gaming (sometimes just tabletop, sometimes also e-gaming)
- a big costume contest on a stage rather erroneously referred to as a Masquerade.
- a room that plays anime round the clock
- a room for Filking round the clock (this is a musical art which often, but not always, involves putting new lyrics to familiar tunes, but it can also involve original music that is particularly geeky)
- readings by local authors
- discussions about why Steampunk is so damned popular all of a sudden
- combat demos (with swords, or just martial arts, that sort of thing)
- masses of people getting sick the day after because somebody was too inconsiderate to stay home when they got the plague
- Belly dancers
- Also a ton of panels on the usual stuff, like hard science or books or tv shows or movies or costuming or anime or gaming or whatevs

Less common but more seen the closer you get to nerd college towns like Boston:
- parties from ~11pm to ~3-4am with insane amounts of UV lighting and [free] booze (in this case, often with dry ice making everything all smokey)
- generally some semi-official excuse to go into the hotel pool and hot tub (Arisia and both have a Pi-Con have a "Panel in the Pool", while Lunacon has an afternoon pool party with inflatables and suchlike)
- shadowcast performances (like Rocky Horror) of various films and TV episodes
- themed morning yoga (this year they apparently did yoga to Dubstep)
- fire shows (like fire poi, flaming hoops, firebreathing, that sort of thing)
- blood drives
- "play" parties ← not the Nintendo kind of play
- burlesque performers


These things give me maximum enjoyment for relatively minimal expense (not counting the hotel room, Arisia cost me $30 in five day admission and $7 to get there and back from Long Island).


Oh, neato, I could have just linked to this: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Convention
Apparently "fancon" is the more or less official designation.

...holy crap, there's a convention specifically made for Starsky and Hutch slash fans. My mind is blown. :O
 
No joke, DaveDough. Upon my trip back home today, I saw that my bus driver looked alarmingly a lot like you. I had to do a double take. This fucking thread is ruining my life.
 
ICS is a drastic upgrade from Gingerbread. There are notable improvements to the following:

  • UI design and typeface
  • UI performance
  • Browser speed and tab management
  • Gmail, Calendar, Reader etc. (i.e. core Google apps)
  • Multitasking
  • Camera software and picture editing
  • Keyboard, text prediction, autocorrect
  • Voice actions, dictation speed
  • Folder management and widget resizing
  • Streamlined menus and settings
More reason to get a Galaxy Nexus.
 
GameplayWhore said:
Place one foot forward and lean very slightly back as a counter-balance, if you're doing it that way. Wouldn't want the girl to fall.

For most girls who don't often do dips, one hand on the small of the back, one hand slid up to the base of the neck. Most girls are not comfortable leaning back so much unless you give them a lot of support.
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Yeah, I understand all of that in theory... perhaps it's because I don't have enough practice.

Then again, International Standard doesn't allow for dips/lifts unless it's at pre-champ/champ or show dances.
 
SRG01 said:
Yeah, I understand all of that in theory... perhaps it's because I don't have enough practice.

Then again, International Standard doesn't allow for dips/lifts unless it's at pre-champ/champ or show dances.
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So score one for American Social, I guess. That style doesn't seem to care how often you dip as long as you keep a solidly puritanical level of body connection.
 
Nex Superne said:
ICS is a drastic upgrade from Gingerbread. There are notable improvements to the following:

  • UI design and typeface
  • UI performance
  • Browser speed and tab management
  • Gmail, Calendar, Reader etc. (i.e. core Google apps)
  • Multitasking
  • Camera software and picture editing
  • Keyboard, text prediction, autocorrect
  • Voice actions, dictation speed
  • Folder management and widget resizing
  • Streamlined menus and settings
More reason to get a Galaxy Nexus.
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I'm hoping the update rolls out to Bionics sometime during the next couple of months.

I have an interview lined up for a small video production company on Friday. It's not a super fancy business but it's a step up from what I'm doing now, so hopefully it goes well.
 
Davedough said:
I wont be impressed until I see you balancing that wine bottle cork down.
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That seems... difficult. You first.

Acid08 said:
I'm eating a slice of banana cream pie I made :P

http://i.imgur.com/je3ik.jpg[IMG]

Shitty cell phone picture.[/QUOTE]

Very niiiice. Danke. Technically my cup of dry cereal was accompanied by a banana, so it's close to what you had. [spoiler]Not. ;_;[/spoiler]

[quote="ShockingAlberto, post: 34541354"]*looks around for food*

Uh, I'm eating Japanese candy

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ia9CY.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Ugh... Candy... Appreciate the thought, though.



[quote="jim-jam bongs, post: 34541434"]Uhhhh I can take a photo of my glass of water if you like HP[/QUOTE]

I do like water... but, I've already got a very serviceable styrofoam cup of agua by my elbow, begging to be knocked over.
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I just got home from work... somehow it's almost 7? weird. Heading out soon to watch the heat and the state of the union at a friend's, but alas, I love you RPGaf
 
I mostly only drink water from an 18oz. sports bottle.

It does a better job of keeping it cold and lets me measure out how much water I'm drinking that day since my minimum is 32 oz. a day.
 
I could hold you Dave.

*raises eyebrow*

H.Protagonist said:
I do like water... but, I've already got a very serviceable styrofoam cup of agua by my elbow, begging to be knocked over.
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I have water days and non-water days, today is definitely a water day since it's about 30C like a sauna here.

ShockingAlberto said:
I mostly only drink water from an 18oz. sports bottle.

It does a better job of keeping it cold and lets me measure out how much water I'm drinking that day since my minimum is 32 oz. a day.
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Glasses all the way for me. I bought a box of milkshake sized glasses from IKEA a couple of years ago, perfect man-sized water every time.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I mostly only drink water from an 18oz. sports bottle.

It does a better job of keeping it cold and lets me measure out how much water I'm drinking that day since my minimum is 32 oz. a day.
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I have a 40oz Klean Kanteen that is honestly one of my favorite possessions.

Not sure if anyone here will be able to help, but I'm having kind of a frustrating problem with my Mac drive and time machine. I keep trying to back up to a 500GB external, and I'm being told the backup will take up 527.96GB of space. But when I go to preferences and check what's being backed up, I see my desktop (6GB), documents (26MB), and a folder of DVDs I've ripped (14GB). Which does not add up to 527.96GB.

Where is all this extra data coming from?

I have been using time machine until now with no problems for months.
 
Dark Octave said:
PS3 all on the carpet. Tripping hazards all over the place.

You a mess!
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It's usually on the TV shelf you see behind it, I took it out so that the USB cord could charge the controller and reach to the couch :P. Bonus points if you can guess the two games back there. HINTS: The red case is a PS3 greatest hits game and the other is a PS1 game.
 
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