aurelia, yup - your take confirms Mister Broom's take on his city, and his info.
Works for me.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
River ,'Trash'
F2F 2: Is there anybody here that hasn't slept together?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: New Orleans! May 20-22, 2005!
deborah grabien - Jun 13, 2004 8:30:09 pm PDT #5465 of 9999
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Mr. Broom - Jun 13, 2004 8:30:22 pm PDT #5466 of 9999
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I could get behind Lawrence. Hey, you think they'd let us have a Buffista Smackdown!?
Oh, hell yes. Buffistas would own at trivia night. Might finally be able to assemble a team that could win. Plus, Sunday nights at the Bottleneck are dollar-fifty draws. Had me one tonight. That's another thing--Boulevard Beer. My favorite beer in the world, and it's made in KC. Some Midwestern Buffistas may know what I'm talking about--I know it gets at least as far as Iowa. Damn good beer.
NoiseDesign - Jun 13, 2004 8:37:46 pm PDT #5467 of 9999
Our wings are not tired
My thinking is that KC and Lawrence are close enough that for the voting we treat them as one city. If we end up choosing KC/Lawrence as our F2F location we'll spend 2 weeks looking at costs and such in both locations and then choose. A similar thing happened with Baltimore/DC this year.
Daisy Jane - Jun 13, 2004 8:40:39 pm PDT #5468 of 9999
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Cool. I just know if say (having no idea how close KC and Lawrence are) NO and Metarie were pitted against each other along with the others, I'd not be happy.
billytea - Jun 13, 2004 8:42:11 pm PDT #5469 of 9999
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Cool. I just know if say (having no idea how close KC and Lawrence are) NO and Metarie were pitted against each other along with the others, I'd not be happy.
Preferential voting would negate that problem...
aurelia - Jun 13, 2004 8:44:30 pm PDT #5470 of 9999
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
KC and Lawrence are about a 20 min. drive (depending on where in KC).
Trudy Booth - Jun 13, 2004 8:44:31 pm PDT #5471 of 9999
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
goes after billytea with pipe
Daisy Jane - Jun 13, 2004 8:46:21 pm PDT #5472 of 9999
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I was going to mention those dreaded words bt, but I knew better.
NoiseDesign - Jun 13, 2004 8:48:55 pm PDT #5473 of 9999
Our wings are not tired
I'm not sure that preferential voting would really fix it. For me if I'm voting I'd vote for either KC or Lawrence in the top few and Minneapolis. I wouldn't want to put both KC and Lawrence up there knowing that they are 20 minutes apart. It would be like splitting the vote for the LA F2F between Glendale and Burbank.
billytea - Jun 13, 2004 9:01:12 pm PDT #5474 of 9999
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm not sure that preferential voting would really fix it. For me if I'm voting I'd vote for either KC or Lawrence in the top few and Minneapolis. I wouldn't want to put both KC and Lawrence up there knowing that they are 20 minutes apart. It would be like splitting the vote for the LA F2F between Glendale and Burbank.
In preferential voting you may as well put them both up there, if that truly reflects your preferences. It would give both KC and Lawrence their fair shake, and won't disadvantage any other city. Unless you get a situation where lots of people like both Lawrence and KC, but only vote for one or the other, and the vote gets split and somewhere else gets chosen and you have a lot of Buffistas thinking "Damn, I wish it were in Kansas. Why did I vote like that?" In which case, yes, Minneapolis will be worse off because you voted your true preferences, but it should be worse off then, because, hey, they're your true preferences.
And I will shut up now, because I'm just stirring. I don't imagine this will involve preferential voting. (Though it totally could.)
But I agree with your actual point, i.e. they're so close they may as well be taken as a single choice, and if it wins then people can investigate their relative merits. (That is your point, yes?)