Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:31:07 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave in search of...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

After getting the relevant emails all in one place, albeit backwards . . .

Thank you, Michael and Barry, for trying.  As I said, it didn't occur to me
that finding this would be difficult.

To explain the "perfectly valid suggestions", there were some good ones.
The one that wasn't was a wonderful riff on using a refrigerator door.

But I've used my break to compare items from both Staples and Office Depot
and have narrowed things down to the following.

http://tinyurl.com/ybxtwn

http://tinyurl.com/yaseet

The question isn't price, it's stability.  An aluminium frame isn't
particularly sturdy and we're not going to mount it on a hotel wall.  Which
makes me think that the smaller one is the way to go.

(And, to save people time, I've already found the Staples nearest the hotel.)

As for cost, there are several perfectly acceptable ways to cover it.  I
just need to discuss them with the relevant people.  Or I could pick it up
myself.  The only reason I haven't gotten a larger white board is that I
haven't figured out how to put one within reach of my desk.  For some
reason there are bookshelves on both sides.

Anyway.  I need a recommendation as to which one is best.  Mike, please, no
long emails about it, please?  I'm past the end of the break I allowed
myself.  And I really do need to get down to the Hilton at some point today.

Elspeth

At 10:08 PM 10/18/2006, Barry L. Newton wrote:
>These are all probably perfectly valid suggestions, but at this late date,
>what's really needed is someone (not me!) to jump up and say:  Why yes, I
>can  spend half a day chasing all that stuff down, and I'll have it there
>by Friday.

(various emails)

At 09:21 PM 10/18/2006, Elspeth Kovar wrote:

<joking snipped>
>Seriously -
>
>I'd gotten this notion fixed my head that turning Capclave members loose
>with words on magnets could be vastly amusing.  (Probably more so if we
>shifted it to the Saturday night reception for the duration.  Quote after
>me: Authors and editors and alcohol, oh my.)  I did manage to finagle the
>Genius, Book Lovers, and Cat Lovers sets out of the person who was
>displaying them at NEBA.  What I didn't have is something that can be used
>to stick them to.
>
>It didn't occur to me that tracking down something large enough that
>people can have fun with it that was also something we could get into and
>use in hotel function space might be a just a tad bit difficult.  Hotels
>tend to get cranky about things that they think might mess up their
>walls.  That rules out raw metal, or metal trays attached to raw wood, raw
>wood attached to raw metal, stuff like that.
>
>Elspeth

(various emails)

>At 09:39 AM 10/17/2006, Michael Walsh wrote:
>... a sheet of metal for a set of magnetic poetry to be used in the
>Town Square.
>
>Anyone?
>
>mjw