Whos going to GATECON 2001?

'Taking care...'

Ah... but last year you didn't have a resident 'Little Mother of All Living' on Staff.

This year you're busted.

All of you. :p
 
Originally posted by Gatecon
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

actually... I love the attention :D :D
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I'll throw my hat in here. I'm arranging airfare and hotel in the next few days!
I'm Cynthia a 32, F, SF fiend. Chicago suburban native. Shy and quiet, but I've been pegged as "the quiet one to look out for." I'll let loose a cynic remark that can flake paint, I tell you. I've warmed to Jack O'Neill's POV the last few years. More and more an uncensored "Ya Think?!" has slipped my lips. I've been told I resemble that Ellen Degenerous <sp> person, but I slouch more. I really have to work on that! And no one really listens to a word I say. So no wonder I like writing. YOU are my captive MUAHAHAHA!

I presently read mostly magic and music type fantasy paperbacks, however. And I've written 3/4ths of a fantasy and magic novel. Oh, how I wish to finish it someday!

Internet nickname somehow reflecting my existance in TV: "CynVision" is the nick on the Net. In my head is all sorts of half-remembered TV and movie effects how-to or How-it-was-done knowledge. But for the life of me I can't remember more than one scene from MacGyver and this pains me and reveals to me just how much of my youth I've buried out of sight in my brain between 1983 and 1992.

Sometime SF and all-time X-Files and SG-1 fanfiction writer. I've taken a stab at scriptwriting, too. (They're still not finished, but the two stories are close to a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits ideas.)

I've twelve years tech theater experience. High School, College, Rep, Childrens and Non-Profit. So Gatecon, my dear, If you need a spot operator, master electrician, sound techie or light board operator on the Con I volunteer! :::bounce, bounce:::: :D
 
cool cyn. it'll be great to meet you. and rowan and all the others from this list who are going. heck i think i'm gonna need a list to keep track of who's from where and real life names to sigs.

you know i think i'm honestly looking forward almost as much to meeting all the folks as i am the stars?
 
CynVision, unfortunately all of the staging volunteer spots are full this year... But if you are coming along next year, I would love to see you being a part of the stage crew.

Just keep that in mind... I think we start putting out the call for volunteers around feb-march. Then it's as simple as filling out a form on the website.

Any experience is good experience
 
Experience

Yeah! He even let my move an extension cord last year!:D

But I think the fact I'd already tripped over it twice while bringing in props from the truck had a lot to do with it... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Gatecon
... But if you are coming along next year, I would love to see you being a part of the stage crew.

Just keep that in mind... I think we start putting out the call for volunteers around feb-march. Then it's as simple as filling out a form on the website.

Any experience is good experience
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:D Sweet!

Let's see what this year brings and what transpires next year!
 
Goodies

BTW: Swing through the GatCOn site and look at the new goodies: Calendars and poster... t-shirts and sweatshirts and cookbooks.

Look under merchendise at: www.gatecon.com

Incredably great work Allan!
 
I have a question which is related to the Gatecon, but financially based. This will be my first time in Vancouver or Canada for that matter and I have no idea what the cost of living is there. It would be helpful to know whether meals etc are expensive, reasonable whatever, so that I can allot how much to take with me for spending.

Apologies that this question is not directly related to the convention!

:)
 
costs

Well... right now the $1.00 US is worth about $1.50 Can [on an average]. Meals and things runs about the same as they do down here in the US [ a nice steak about $10-13.00, an okay bottle of wine $4-8.00. Hotel Room at the con [mine] about $145.00], but this is in CAN $$. My buying power is actually better with US $$, so that $12.00 steak is more like $8-9.50.

MacDOnalds, etc, are pretty much the same.

There's a pretty good conversion chart at: http://www.ibsa-inc.org/convert.htm

This will give you an overview of Vancouver, BC and some ideas about prices, etc. Remember... this is a tourist guide, so it'll be high. http://vancouver.about.com/gi/chat/guidelines.htm?once=true&
 
Thank you for that Rowan.... The current exchange rate for £ Sterling and CAD is actually about CAD$4.5 to £2.00 sterling, so my buying power is probably even a little better than your US$. I did wonder if prices were similar to the US for things. I have travelled and lived in the US so I'll just use that as a basis then.

Don't want to go unprepared!
 
Unfortunately, being from Australia... Our conversion rate is CRAP !!!!! Around $51cents US at the moment (about 80c CDN). But I did find that Vancouver had fairly similar prices to that in Aus, so it wan't too bad.

Cheaper or dearer... I don't care... I love the place. I didn't want to leave last year. I fell in love with the country
 
I agree wholeheartedly.

Canada, particularly BC, is brilliant. I fell in love with the place too. One day, I'd love to live in Vancouver for a year or so *sigh.....dream*

BTW, Allan, any chance of moving Gatecon to April in 2003, hahahahahaha? Don't worry, I think I know the answer :( I tried to swing another autumn trip but I've been voted down and spring it's going to be.

PS the exchange rate hit a big 52 cents US last night. Wooohooo ........ now you can really spend up ;)
 
Well I was a little stunned by the exchange rate from the UK, but pleasantly stunned. The thing is that I will be spending three or four months of next year working on a project in Vancouver, so this week there in the September will give me an idea of what to expect.

Not that it particularly bothers me travelling or living in different countries, been doing that since I was an anklesnapper!

It's just more fun doing it when you're old enough to understand about being in a different country!

;) :cool:
 
Originally posted by Anni
Not that it particularly bothers me travelling or living in different countries, been doing that since I was an anklesnapper!

It's just more fun doing it when you're old enough to understand about being in a different country!
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I'm stressing because I've not been out of the country since I was eleven and that didn't count because it was a drive over the Mexican border to some poe-dunk town south of Arizona!

To actually go to another city as big as Chicago and have "the Lake" be west, instead of east, is going to mess with my head so much I'll be lost in no time! Wahhhhh!
 
Darling..... you don't know what you're missing not travelling, although it's true that a lot of people find the cost prohibitive and I totally understand that...

but don't worry about being in a different city.... trust me, one city is much like another, and I understand the Canadians are quite human! (Just kidding around and no offence meant to any Canadians who post!) There will be plenty of people around to help out if you get stressed, but you won't. You'll have a ball!

Apart from the Far East, Australia and NZ, I have lived and travelled nearly every other part of the world and delighted in the culture of these different places. I originally come from Cape Town and my family still live there. Canada will be the last frontier of North America for me! I've been in the more southern parts!

:D :D :rolly2: :cool:
 
It's Official...

I'm goin'!!! I'm so happy!! :rolly2:

My mother, father, uncles, aunts, cousins and the co-workers who know ALL think I'm crazy. BUT I DON'T CARE!!!! I read the reviews from Gatecon '00 and hope I at least have that good of a time if not more!!!
 
Misplaced Canadians? I wonder who misplaced them.... ;)

I have met a few Canadians both through my job and in London and I always get the impression that they thoroughly resent being mistaken for Americans. Not that I blame them for this particularly. I'm South African, but have been in the UK so long that to everyone I am English. Of course, not have that clipped South African twang to my speech helps. But I sometimes have a desire to sharply tell people where I actually hail from, especially when the sentence utters begins with the words.....

"You English (British)......... "

I like the Canadians I have met, even the Canadian lady from Saulte Ste Marie who lived down the road from me for a little while and constantly compared Britain and Canada, but said she'd rather live in the UK than the US. She was a very blunt lady, but also very likeable.

Although they'd probably scream at me for saying this, Canadians seem to have more in common with and are more similar to the British than they are to the Americans. I am looking forward to seeing what differences there are between both of these countries which share a common border. I love travelling and meeting new people, and thrive on it.

Hok-yee...... It took me a while CynVision to translate that into hockey.....

:D :D :cool: ;)
 
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