oops, did I shoot the sacred elephant? Damn. Eh, lucky I'm part of the Communist plot, so religion is not needed ;-)

It would be a lot harder to implement. While it has advantages, it's not perfect. And since I am such a junior member of this lovely board, I am not going to push it AT ALL. Just leave it at the suggestion above, and duck from oncoming bullets. Hate for my red blood to spill... wait, I'm Green. Wait. Does that make me Vulcan (having green blood). Wait! Now I'm confused. /natter.

No worries, omnis. It cracks me up every time it comes up.

oops, did I shoot the sacred elephant? Damn

No worries, omnis. It cracks me up every time it comes up.

Well, it has its merits. That's why it keeps coming up.

Of course, "preferential voting" is really a vague term. There are several systems of vote counting that'll let people vote rank their choices, rather than just choosing one. (I TAed Math and Politics a few times. There were five or six of these methods that we taught. Plus Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, which is always a fun one to explain to undergrads -- it shows that it's impossible to design a voting system that satisfies every criterion in a particular list of rather reasonable-seeming criteria. The proof loops through several proofs by contradiction -- it's kind of neat, actually.)

t edit: didn't mean to get all lectury. It's been a long day.

Despite all my talk of Chicago I just realized that I think every F2F should be in a new venue. I would happily visit KC or Minneapolis. I've never been to either place.

I just loved the Highland Inn in Atlanta, btw, which while it wasn't shiny or modern or de-luxe, was quirky and clean and very accommodating....

My only, only dislike at Highland Inn was that the hospitality suite being divided into two rooms made it cramped and difficult for a lot of people to be in the same room at once. I found it uncomfortable. Of course, I like hospitality suites to have king-size beds in them, too. *shrug*

It was a bit small, but I was just thinking yesterday how convenient it was to have two rooms (we had two rooms in SF, also, iirc) so we could sometimes have vids in one room and socializing in the other (and drifting back and forth between them) without the either group disrupting the other. Why this occurred to me I don't know.

Two rooms are nice if the rooms are big enough that one person can walk through from one to the other without having to displace multiple other people as they go. SF benefited from having patio access that allowed easy movement and a place to decompress if things got too crowded.

That said, I did most of my Atlanta socializing in restaurants, at the prom venue, and at Ginger's house, so it wasn't really a big issue.

In retrospect, I think I would have asked Ailleann if we could switch our expansive two-room suite with the hospitality one, even though it was at the very very end of a long corridor. Ah well.

Theo, that would have been an excellent idea! Plus our room randomly had a kitchen! Ah well.

(Which reminds me that I should stop being a jackass and email you about the rest of the room cost. Sometimes I'm just made of ::facepalm::)