Eastercon 2008, Orbital

[Ian Whates]

Originally Posted by Donna Scott

Let's just say I look nothing like the posh comedian Will Smith (my avatar...).

You reckon? Oh, okay, if you say so.

[pyan]

That's not fair, Ian! You reckon people will recognise you from your avatar, then?

[Nesacat]

If we're going to be looking for our avatars, life is going to be tremendously exciting ... one orange dragon; an Elder God; one very sexy robot; an orange-yellow swirl; black panther; an astronaut; Will Smith even ..... Ah well, no one will ever fail to recognise that it's a Con at least.

[Ian Whates]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

If we're going to be looking for our avatars, life is going to be tremendously exciting ... one orange dragon; an Elder God; one very sexy robot; an orange-yellow swirl; black panther; an astronaut; Will Smith even ..... Ah well, no one will ever fail to recognise that it's a Con at least.

Hey, and what an entrance we could make!!

Sadly, even if I went to the best costume designer in the world, there' no way I could ever squeeze into anything that would make me look like my avatar.

Oh well, there's always next year... after the diet!

[iansales]

And, sadly, the con is orbital not lunar :-)

[Donna Scott]

Originally Posted by Ian Whates

You reckon? Oh, okay, if you say so.

Come on, I'm not that tall!

[Who's Wee Dug]

I will definately be there,gave last years a miss for various reasons.

[Troo]

I might be going. I certainly hope to. I just have a long, established hisory of buying tickets to events then having to drop out at the last minute

[Ningauble]

I'll be going -- finally got around to booking a B&B and paying for my flight yesterday.

I'll be the slightly lost-looking, bespectacled Swede with the Lovecraft-themed T-shirt (and had the season been right, I'd have worn my black convention kilt as well).


There'll be quite a bunch of Swedes there, including more of us from Gothenburg.

[iansales]

Maybe we ought to knock up a sheet of stickers that people can stick on their badges to show they're members of sffchronicles. Just the logo or something. If we ask nicely, I'm sure the people running the con would be happy to have them on the registration desk - so you can stick one on when you arrive.

[Mark Robson]

Originally Posted by iansales

Maybe we ought to knock up a sheet of stickers that people can stick on their badges to show they're members of sffchronicles. Just the logo or something. If we ask nicely, I'm sure the people running the con would be happy to have them on the registration desk - so you can stick one on when you arrive.

That would be a great idea, Ian. It would be good to have something by which to identify each other.

I'm likely to make an appearance on the Friday. Can't stop for the whole thing unfortunately, (Easter is so early this year that it falls on my wife's birthday weekend) but have just asked my Publishers to accept the invitation to take part on a panel ... providing it's scheduled on the Friday!

[Ian Whates]

Great news that you're likely to be there, Mark. I'm going to be launching certainly one and in all probability two books at Eastercon, and by the look of things, the launch party is likely to be on the Friday, immediately before the official opening ceremony, so come along for a free glass of wine or two!

Only problem is that the program isn't kicking off until Friday evening, so it seems doubtful they'll be running too many full panel items on the Friday -- they're more likely to happen on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

[iansales]

Who has access to a colour printer, then? Who wants to knock up a sheet of small stickers (no more than 0.5cm in diameter should be sufficient) featuring the site logo? Sadly, I only have a B&W laser printer.

[Troo]

Crikey, I'll be covered in stickers at this rate

[Ian Whates]

Originally Posted by Troo

Crikey, I'll be covered in stickers at this rate

Kinky devil!