Fear my Impressive Wang, and the full list of loot

[gridlore]

One thing I forgot in the Baycon report. By late Sunday I was becoming pretty good at using the chair, and spent much of Monday racing through the non-carpeted areas of the hotel shouting "Over caffinated man in wheelchair, make a hole!" Zooomm!! I managed to burn rubber.

Anyway, here is the final ribbon wang:


Guest

25th Anniversary Celebrant

Without You We're Nothing

Wishing You An Abundance of Spoons

Veedback Road Crew This was the ribbon given to people who worked our party.

PATRON 77 Another one of ours, given to people who made material on monetary contributions

Red Shirt Walking Technically, I didn't qualify for this, but it was decided that spending Friday nearly dead in the hospital was close enough.

Con Ops Says What?

Check The Bar

Drama Llama Zoo Keeper

My Little Chainsaw

Sad Girl In Snow I had this one explained to me at least three times. I still don't get it.

NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT

IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE

BASFA The Bay Area Science Fiction Association. The ribbon had two Hugo rockets on wither side of the name, making it a nice compliment to the previous two ribbons.

Chief Tyrol's Deck Crew

TORCHWOOD

She's Having Our Baby Hey, it's one way to announce a pregnancy.

¡FANZINISTA!

Yeah, I know Chris And I'm a better person for it.

Cult of Johanna - 1st Degree I'm sure this one made sense to me at the time.

Friend of JohnO The annual LJ ribbon passed out by johno

It's Minion's Fault

I should note that almost all of the ribbons up to this point were collected for me by kshandra while I was still in the hospital. I may have set a record for wang length possessed by someone not even on site yet.

Died in CharGen Our give-away ribbon for the Traveller 30th party.

GEEK

6+2+1=42 The 6-2-1 Rule is the Answer! The 6-2-1 Rule is simple guide for surviving the con. 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, and 1 shower every day.

"Eric in the Elevator" A talk show, normally filmed in the elevators at SF cons.

The Snark Must Flow

GNOME A reference to Westercon 60. Yes, I'm a guest. Yes, Kirsten is working it. We're kind of sad that way.

Tilly the Wonder Dog! Tilly is a service dog, whose main job at cons seems to be getting her ears scratched and collecting more badge ribbons than her -person.

RIBBON WHORE Well, yes...

Minion www.cc26.info The official ribbon of Costume Con 26

The Queen's Favor

Wild Nobility

CNR RIP This was being passed out by Chris Garcia after the con learned on Charles Nelson Reilly's death. Chris took a bunch of his "Yeah, I know Chris" ribbons and wrote CNR RIP over them in marker.

One Pun @ A Time

There are probably a few more that got collected at the last second, but since they never made it onto the badge, they are not official wang.

Now, the stuff. I looked around the art show a little but nothing really grabbed me (at least, nothing in my price range grabbed me) so no bidding there. In the dealer's room, I did a lot better.

Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
Zima Blue - Alastair Reynolds (a collection of his short stories. I went back down to the dealers' room to buy this after reading two chapters of Pushing Ice.)
The Tough Guide To Fantasy Land - Diana Wynne Jones (I'd heard so many good things about this, I had to have it. It's great.)
Rainbow's End - Vernor Vinge

I also grabbed the t-shirt mentioned in yesterday's con report, and the incredible vest bought for me by hellloooonurse. aurictech gave me a fabulous gift, a silk map of the Balkans dating from the Operation Joint Endeavour days. The box the map comes in has a set of useful phrases in English, French, and Serbian like "Put your hands over your head" and "cease firing".

Finally, I was hanging out in the gaming room Monday chatting with the staff there, and they gave me a copy of Fantasy Imperium. Damn, this book is a time machine to RPGs in the early 1980s. I doubt I'll ever play it, but it should be good for mining ideas.

Comments

[benkenobigal.livejournal.com]

Can totally see you zooming through the halls with people diving out of your way. :)

And the quote on your LJ cut? One of my favorite movies!! :)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I consider Blazing Saddles to be a humanity test. If you don't laugh at that film, you're not human.

"Are we awake?"

"We're not sure. Are we.. black?"

"Yes, we are."

"Then we're awake. But puzzled."

[benkenobigal.livejournal.com]

And my absolute favorite:
Taggart: Break's over, boys. Don't just lay there gettin' a suntan, ain't gonna do you no good anyhow. Now take this shovel and put it to some good use.
[Bart grabs a shovel and advances on Taggart from behind]
Charlie: Don't do it, Bart.
Bart: Uh-uh, baby, I have to.
Taggart: [to Lyle] Now send a wire to the main office and tell them that I said --
[Bart whacks him]
Taggart: OW!!!!
Lyle: Send wire, main office, tell them I said "ow!!!" Gotcha!

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Lord! Do we have the strength to finish this mighty task in one night.. or are we just jerking off?"

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

"That's authentic frontier gibberish!"

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

You know, my boy, I think you've given me my main event for Saturday night. Friday night Henry J. Kaiser show, maybe?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

To quote Kylie the Wonder Niece, "Sound good to me!"

[lysana.livejournal.com]

"All right! We'll give land to the niggers and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!"

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Cult of Johanna - 1st Degree - It's all britgeekgrrl's fault... because she is Johanna

[kshandra]

Okay, how do YOU know her?

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

I know her from way way back in #c days... due to our mutual interests in British Sci-Fi, especially Doctor Who & Blakes 7

[kshandra]

Explain to me how I managed to avoid getting my own Died In CharGen ribbon.