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?

Posted August 8, 2008 2:08 PM by Mark Wise

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.

Posted August 8, 2008 2:21 PM by JulieB

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.

Posted August 8, 2008 4:06 PM by Geri Sullivan

Disemvowel filibusters! Vote Tor in 2012!

Posted August 8, 2008 4:41 PM by Max Kaehn

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?

Posted August 8, 2008 4:53 PM by Clifton Royston

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.

Posted August 8, 2008 5:49 PM by Bob Webber

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?

Posted August 8, 2008 6:09 PM by abi

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?

Posted August 8, 2008 7:00 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Hmmm, I might vote for Teresa for President. Or for Empress.

Posted August 8, 2008 7:13 PM by Clifton Royston

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.

Posted August 8, 2008 7:29 PM by Dave Bell

Francis Tower Laney is attending the Tor party? Where is George Romero with the film crew?

Posted August 8, 2008 11:22 PM by Bruce E. Durocher II

Abi @ #7

Exactly.

Posted August 9, 2008 7:58 AM by Mark Wise

@7 abi:

Yes! I'm already way ahead of the curve! Tors of the world unite!

Posted August 9, 2008 10:15 AM by Torie

"Count" is taken, but many other operators are available. More powerful too, and easier to abbreviate.

Posted August 9, 2008 12:45 PM by TomB

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...

Posted August 9, 2008 2:10 PM by abi

Clifton @ 9

Why waste her talents? I'd nominate and vote for her for The Power That Is.

Posted August 9, 2008 8:30 PM by Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)