Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:17:47 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Sunday, August 22, 2004, 5:04:13 PM, you wrote:

> Generally speaking, it's also a poorly done convention.  One of the
> most notable one being ConDiego (1990)  which managed to typo it's name
> in it's own souvenir book.  And apparently things only got worse. Which
> caused this to become a popular phrase:  "Your name is ConDiego Montoya.
> You kill my weekend. Prepare to die."

Damn, that's funny.

> Since the likelyhood of actually removing NASFiC from the WSFS
> Constitution is pretty darn small, the only other alternative I could
> think of last year was to vote in the NASFiC site selection, voting for
> No NASFiC.  Well, it's going to Seattle, & I'm not.

> But con going fans like to go to cons; wave some cheese in front of
> them and off they go . . .

Interesting. So why is it that NASFic is consistently run poorly. I
assume that different people are involved each year?

--
Jim Kling
science writer
http://nasw.org/users/jkling
jkling at nasw.org