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November 27th, 2018 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. A Guy
    A Guy
    November 27, 2018 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Having once lost a venue two weeks out and being on staff of a con that we moved to an open working airport. This seems so much easier.

  2. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    November 27, 2018 at 2:02 am | # | Reply

    When your con is broke, ‘Almost nothing” is the right cost.

    In this situation I’d perhaps have the “Mini-Bork One Day Con” at the Expo Center with the goal of fundraising, and then plan the real con at a real hotel.

    • Viktor
      Viktor
      November 27, 2018 at 9:35 am | # | Reply

      At the least go do a walkthrough. Maybe it’s not as bad as you think it is. (Granted, maybe it’s worse). At this point, they shouldn’t ignore any options.

  3. Ashonai
    Ashonai
    November 27, 2018 at 11:22 am | # | Reply

    I have a feeling that I know where the con will end up…

  4. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    November 27, 2018 at 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    Having seen what emerges when you move the shelves of a grocery store that’ve been there a while… it could be nasty.

  5. mitamaking
    mitamaking
    November 27, 2018 at 5:46 pm | # | Reply

    I’m trying to imagine a converted grocery store into convention center and I just can’t, it always ends up way too small. If Bork Con is expecting less than 250 people it might work, but Bork Con seemed to be pretty successful before so I can’t see that.

    Seriously though, how would there be more than 2 or 3 rooms in a converted grocery store?

    • KORfan
      KORfan
      November 27, 2018 at 6:35 pm | # | Reply

      There was a con that did this a year or two ago. You don’t really get rooms, you’d have to put up pole & drape.

  6. Xheralt
    Xheralt
    November 27, 2018 at 9:01 pm | # | Reply

    poorly converted store? {flashes back to early X-Cons in Oconomowoc} Now that I think about it, X-Con landed there as a result of the Astor Disaster. “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

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  • Every Time I Say My Desk is 'Peak' Cyberpunk, I End Up Topping It ( November 30th 2020 )


    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

    Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

    Of course, my new main personal machine is a brand spankin' new M1 Mac mini, which is controlled by the keyboard and trackpad that sit where my laptop used to be. I've expanded the physical desk (and retired the mini fridge) to support the monitor for the Mac mini. And don't worry, Linux isn't gone from my desk (and I mean I still use the laptop) -- as you will notice one last monitor on the lower right which is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 400. This is notably used from a different chair, as that's my "goof around" computer, and would literally be a distraction if I was trying to use it while getting work done.

    It's funny, I bought two computers in 2020, both of which are ARM based. With a good chunk of my desk now on RISC architecture, I'm happy I can just dig out this image without context as I sign off for today...

    RISC is good


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