Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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!
Can we not get too too caught up in Halloween planning until we do a little F2F 2005 discussion?
Not to worry - Lee's suggestion is perfect, and reminded me that we have a Peoplesforum thread for smaller F2Fs that we should probably use.
Definitely time to concentrate on the 2005 thing. Time, she marches.
Okay, so we have the proposals from New Orleans and Minneapolis on the table, and ND is working on Kansas City. (edit: and JohnSweden on Toronto. Sorry, bebe, didn't mean to forget you.)
Should the reps from the various cities field questions, extoll virtues, provide daily reportage, whathaveyou? Should we get into a carrot vs. potato war (Minneapolis prefer the starchy vegetables)? Install webcams on street corners and provide a stream of images? Drag in people off the street to testify?
If y'all can't tell, I'm trying to be goofy. It may be coming off as just dumb.
Minneapolis likes potatoes
Basically now is the time to pimp your cities. Now is the time for folks unsure about cities to ask questions. Look at potential travel costs, hotel costs, all sorts of things.
Nicole helping me with KC and getting some more cost info. I'm going to post about that there is to do in KC as soon as I get a longer free moment. JohnSweden is waiting to get the information back from the Toronto Visitor's Bureau and then we'll have information from him.
So pimp cities.
Allyson, people have talents. Your is obviously organizational. The Buffistas are not like other forums where others are looked upon with mercenary suspicion. Of course you would be trusted with money. You know what to do with it. I sure don't.
I didn't send you money because you yelled you had enough when I got around to sending some, so I didn't. I can neither ask for, or deny, an accounting. All I can do is reassure you.
This Nilly trip enabled all of us to get together at various venues and enjoy each other. A multiple F2F.
You could write the entire thing up and share it with us. I suspect that would be the accounting. (How it came to be, etc) I also suspect that a multiple F2F has never happened before.
The time was special, and you powered it.
Just poking my head in to say hello to everyone.
And from what the midwesterners are saying, it sounds like Nilly's next American adventure will involve rafting down the Mississippi!
Somewhere on the web (I don't have time to look it up right now) you can click on a map and see any corner in Manhatten. I don't think it is live. When I was messing with it, I was enthralled.
Oh, I love that Forgotten NY site. I've killed so many hours reading it. (Also, it was very useful when I found the address of where my great-grandmother grew up in Brooklyn, and was trying to figure out exactly where in Brooklyn that was, and mapquest was coming up with nothing. Eventually figured out that the street hasn't actually existed since about 1915, but that site had an old map showing where it had been.)
If we're planning Seattle Halloween stuff, and Jilli and I were just discussing putting a notice in Press to Talk About It this Wednesday last, as one of the Seattle Halloween PLANNERS, I'd strongly prefer that we talk about it here, as, much as I try to use it from time to time, I hate the People's Forum interface with the burning fire of a thousand suns, and you're not going to see me there unless it's an actual emergency.
Also, honestly? Halloween is less than two months away. Any planning that goes on for a coordinated small F2F will be long over, and is not going to seriously fuck with the big F2F shit.