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Greetings from Denvention!*
If you’re at the worldcon and feel like lending a helping hand this afternoon, Tor has a logistical bottleneck. We’re shorthanded this convention, and Denvention doesn’t have the kind of clearly delineated relationship with its hotels that makes it possible to drive up to the Furengba Hotel’s main entrance, bestow advance tokens of esteem on the bellhops, and have them carry all the supplies up to the party suite.*
The other difficulty is that we’re not yet sure when we’re going to arrive at the Furengba with our supplies. Obviously, we don’t expect anyone to keep their entire afternoon schedule clear; you’d be volunteering to help if our arrival time coincides with the time you’re available.
To volunteer, email your cellphone number to pnh@panix.com and tnh@panix.com. We’ll also try to post info updates in the comment thread.
I saw the thread title and immediately thought,"Vote the Tor ticket in 2012."
No doubt fund raising will start soon. Maybe a tip jar at the party?
I just passed this info along so to some folks I know who are up there in hopes they can give you guys a hand.
Update: Reno in 2011 is providing opaque plastic bins that P&T can use to have the bellhops transport the Tor Office Supplies from their car up to the Tor Party Suite for tonight.
Disemvowel filibusters! Vote Tor in 2012!
I like your puzzle clues to the location in question. Expose via BitTorrent or Gnutella one thousand kilograms at the cube of two's lower integral bound!
If suspiciously unsuitable persons appear at the door will they be required to mentally extract the cube root of 74088, or to prove that any cat has nine tails, before being permitted to enter?
Hey, Mark Wise:
Your second sentence irks me. While a donation jar at a convention party is not unheard-of, at a publisher's party it would be a once-in-a-career spectacle.
Asking people who know you to help schlep some party supplies at a worldcon is a completely different kettle of fans from asking for money from party guests. Your comment unfortunately juxtaposes a jest with a minor insult.
Hey, Bob Webber,
The whole comment was a joke. The tip jar was clearly meant as the way to start a political party, not to buy the drinks.
Me, I think that they should start an aristocracy instead, and prepend everybody important's name with Tor. So I'd be Abi Torsutherland. You could be Bob Torwebber. And of course there'd be Patrick and Teresa Tornielsen Torhayden...
Anyone there named Kosigan?
abi #7: Since 'Count' has already been taken by those Vor thieves, and none of us generally feel like duking it out, or consuming barons of beef, might I suggest -- ever so humbly -- that the lords of, ahem,Torrayar, adopt the style of Marquis?
Hmmm, I might vote for Teresa for President. Or for Empress.
One could quite legitimately bestow the title of Earl so as to avoid confusion with the pesky Barrayarans, with Precedence then settled by the date of creation of the title.
Of course, FTL might lead to arguments over that.
Francis Tower Laney is attending the Tor party? Where is George Romero with the film crew?
@7 abi:
Yes! I'm already way ahead of the curve! Tors of the world unite!
"Count" is taken, but many other operators are available. More powerful too, and easier to abbreviate.
Torie @13:
And you the power behind the PNH on Tor.com. The secret engines of the world stand revealed!
I, for one*...
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* two...three... wrong kind of Count? AH-ha-ha...
Clifton @ 9
Why waste her talents? I'd nominate and vote for her for The Power That Is.
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