1) An Eye of Argon reading, with prizes 2) An orcs vs. humans D&D battle, with prizes
We'll also be bringing many games, although cargo space for us is limited and I'll need to cut down on the total.
Any other requests? Anyone else definitely interested in doing an indoor something?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I was thinking about doing a showing in my room of some Anime music videos I have archived on my computer, if anyone wants to watch. Suggestions for other things to do are welcome. I could bring some board games or my PS2 and DDR... But I only have the one pad and some hotels don't allow you to hook video games up. AJ?
Also, I was planning on bringing a few issues of Shonen Jump, if anyone wanted to read them.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I'm just showing up to the hotel!
I'll make fun wherever I go. I promise you that.
*packs his Riff Raff costume*
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Oh... I plan to do a Tolkien study before each viewing of the movies.
*prepares notes*
Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :
Tolkien! Anime! ack! :: faints in ecstasy :: Satyagraha
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
I am definitely bring my dance pads (one pretty good, one decent), all my DDR games, and my PSX. I think someone said they would be bringing a PS2.
I will be getting my Firefly DVDs back from Vana and Lime (sorry, can't do the accent from this keyboard, Vana!) and I have missed the sorely, so I was planning on watching some, whether it is in a group or by myself.
Various game playing is a must. Am not sure which games I will bring, yet.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Thousand Ideas in an Hour? Where we write a story as a group? Jenny won't be there , but maybe we can get notes from as to how to do it.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
I'll try and remember my Tick DVD's even if I'm the only one watching.
(like this, but green)
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I was toying with the idea of bringing art supplies and drawing portraits if anyone's interested. With the forewarning, of course, that my portraits are very hit-and-miss in quality. Sometimes they're great, sometimes you say "who is that?" And if we have any other artists, they're welcome to upstage me. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I draw! I draw!!! But myartmostlylookslikethis.... So people might not be interested. Also, I'm not too great at 'portraits' either. Annie's a real artist, I am a hack.
[ August 10, 2004, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Ryuko ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I'm not real at all. I'm a commercial artist. (say with proper Donald Kuspit dread in the voice)
That means I sell things I do for less than a thousand dollars, and my soul to the corporate devil.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Well... Hmm... I have no answer to that. Except...
Non-Photo Pencils!!! (runs away)
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
Annie or Ryuko, I'd love a portrait/drawing of Sophie. All I can do is trace and color.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
Too... much... fun... stuff...
*implodes*
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
I'll bve bringing Apples to Apples and Settlers of Catan (with the Expansion Pack of Settlers).
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
ooh... I'm sure Sophie would probably be among the easiest subjects to convince to hold still Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Noah, I think celia was already thinking of bringing apples to apples, with a few... custom cards for the situation. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I'm not going to have a lot of luggage space, being a busrider, but if anyone wants to bring Trivial Pursuit, I won't complain too loudly Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Which version? We own four different versions of Trivial Pursuit.
FG
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I think the 1981 Genus is the most pure, (and I have not memorized the answers!) because it predates the asinine multiple choice statistics question.
If you want to beat me, bring the 20th Anniversary edition.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Hey, I might actually have a challenge at Trivial Pursuit? My inlaws usually have to play teams against me by myself. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Oh, trivial pursuit!
This weekend is not long enough.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
The good old HatChat Trivial Pursuit days were fun, but there are a lot of you I never got a chance to go up against. Morbo was my most worthy rival.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
This is dana'n'bob:
We can bring: Fluxx Chrononauts Grave Robbers from Outer Space
(all are card-based games).
(not Card-based games).
Bob will also offer to do his Daniel impersonation that he did for VBS last night.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Who's bringing the Card-based games, then?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
I'd like to suggest combining the 1981 and 2000 (or something like 2000...) editions of Trivial Pursuit. I hate the arts and entertainment and sports questions from the 1981 edition. Mainly because I wasn't born then. Actually, I sort of like ALL the questions from the 2000 edition better... Except the 1981 edition has geography. The rest of my family prefers 1981. I don't really have anything interesting I could bring. Unless people want to watch Deep Space Nine or Futurama on DVD.
[ August 10, 2004, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Rappin' Ronnie Reagan ]
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
My activity has already been axed. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh, no Punwit... the Latin karaoke is totally still on.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Anyone interested in organizing a mafia game?
Ni!
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
I guess I'm the one bringing a(?) PS2? I don't remember anyone else volunteering theirs, but I wonder if we need another one or two (I doubt it, but you never know, could be the most popular thing there ). I could also bring the Millenium eddition of Trivial Pursuit. Never been used.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
noah, hello, we've discussed apples. save the luggage space.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Vaya Con Dios baby.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I'll even bring my Canto Lo Mejor de Shakira CD. Consider it packed.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
punwit -- you can't be dictating activities when you have said you are only "going to be able to drop by for a bit" to visit with us all.
So... we will do the karaoke at 2 AM if you want to show up...
FG
[ August 10, 2004, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
okay - check, I'm brining the 1981 Genus edition of Trivial Pursuit, and the 20th Anniversary edition. My kids don't like the 1981 edition because so much (especially entertainment) is way before their time. Then again, they usually choose it over the 20th anniversary edition -- which I think just has some questions they think are "dumb".
And my junior edition doesn't get played any more, because they outgrew it and knew all the answers...
Unfortunately, our household undisputed champ is not going with us to KamaCon, so you will have to play with us lesser people...
Farmgirl
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Today I picked up Travel Boggle and the nice wood Scrabble (yes, I know other people are bringing Scrabble, but you can't have too much Scrabble!) to bring along. I also have Mille Bournes and . . . uh, I have other stuff, but the closet with games is currently a couple miles away. I'll refresh my memory later.
I want a good part in Eye of Argon!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
There ARE no good parts in The Eye of Argon. That's kind of the point. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Tom are you going to have the parts printed out ahead of time, or should I pack my LaserJet from my house?
AJ
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Cranium, anyone? I like it, but won't bring unless others are interested.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I've got 'em printed. But I think a LaserJet would be an EXCELLENT idea, since I can imagine a number of things people would like to print if given the opportunity.
(That said, there ARE no parts in The Eye of Argon. It's a story, not a play -- and the reading is competitive. Basically, it's a game of hot potato; you go around the circle reading from the story, passing it on every time you laugh -- and the person who finishes the last line wins.)
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Christy and I love Cranium, ElJay. Do you have the expansion? (If not, we can bring it.)
[ August 10, 2004, 10:07 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
We also love Cranium
FG
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Wow... I've never hung out with people who brought a printer to the party before! Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I do not have the expansion. But I will bring the game. Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Just a word for the people who have plans on watching DVDs and such from their room. You won't be able to use the hotel TVs. Hotel TVs purposefully don't allow you to plug in VCRs or any other similar device. Their movie system shows stuff not available on DVD/Tape, so the TVs have no way of plugging anything into them. The idea is that Hollywood doesn't want the movies on tape in any shape or form. If the hotel allows VCRs, they can be sued.
Just a heads up.
Some more expensive hotels (sorry, Holiday Inn isn't in this category) have DVD players in the room and DVDs available for rent from the front desk because you can't record on a DVD player.
So, don't expect to be able to use the in-room TV. The hotel may have a TV that you can use in the hospitality room, but they probably only have one or two and they won't let you take it into a guest room.
Just FYI.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
This includes game systems as well.
Oh, and you'll notice a Coax cable on the back of the TV and be heartened. Don't. It has a security nut on it that requires a special key to remove. Also, if you do happen to be able to remove it, the TV has a special card in it that will only allow it to display what the movie/cable system displays.
This stuff is high-tech and well planned out. Lodgenet, one of the major providers of this technology, is seriously dedicated to screwing you out of messing with their equipment. You don't want to get sued. Trust me on this one. They have major film studios and production companies with high-priced lawers on their back. You don't want that kind of trouble.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
hmmm I know you work in the industry. There was a plug in for a keyboard and keyboards in every room for like webtv. Is that normal?
and I do think you could watch videos and dvds in the hospitality room.
AJ
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
AWW -- who wants to sit around in front of a tube watching movies anyway? We are there to see each other and visit!
FG
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Sorry to spoil the fun, but I work for a hotel and have to deal with this crap all the time, and didn't want to see you guys drag your stuff all over the country only to be disappointed.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
BannaOJ, yeah. Some hotels offer WebTV service. However, expect to pay ten bucks an hour to use it.
I don't doubt that the hotel has a TV for you to use (we do and we don't even have a conference room) that will allow you to plug all sorts of stuff into it. Most likely the hospitality room is just a guest room that they're giving to you for an extremely discounted price (typically a suite). So there will be a TV in it, but the TV already in the suite will be the kind I've described. You'll have to get a different TV for the fun and games you've described.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Primal Curve would TVS that are set up for like video presentations and the like would be ok for games too? (Like the one for the hospitality room I think is ok for things like that)
I'll call Wendy tomorrow to find out exactly what is acceptable and not and where/
AJ
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Another tip. If you want to call long distace... BUY A CALLING CARD. Seriously, you don't want to pay $4 for the first minute and $1 each additional. It's quite obviously not worth it. You will be able to use the card for free from your guest room unless the hotel charges an access fee. I used to work for a Hyatt and they charged 25 cents for each local or toll-free call. Otherwise, they should have a payphone.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
btw the hospitality room is NOT "just a guest suite" It is like a giant living room, with a substantial kitchen area/wet bar (sans stove for fire codes) Theres a full handicap accesible bathroom as well with a shower should someone need an extra.
AJ
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Yeah, those TVs should be fine.
Mayhap I should have started another thread? Sorry, I just thought I should mention my concerns.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Primal Curve my method of choice for calling long distance is borrowing someone's cell phone (if I didnt' have my own which I do) with free nationwide longdistance.
And there is a phone plug designed with computers in mind so if you have a service that has local access numbers you can get out to the internet for free.
AJ
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
See, when I think Eye of Argon, I think the MST3K of it. And there ARE "good" (as in fun, not as in quality ) parts in that.
My mistake.
Ok, I need to know if anyone is interested in Rummikub. It's not huge, so I can bring it without significant trouble; but it is big enough that if no one is interested, it'd be a waste of space. (As opposed to my small travel Trouble, which I'll just toss in my suitcase for the heck of it. Sadly, my travel Battleships seems to have gone AWOL. Maybe I'll find it while working on packing up the apartment tomorrow.)
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
There are already so many games listed that I'm totally psyched for, but does anyone play Zombies!!!? I can maybe bribe my friends to let me bring it. They've got all the expansions.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
rivka, I wouldn't bother with lugging a game that might or might not get played across half a continent. There will be plenty to do anyway.
In fact, if even half these games get played I will be surprised. I just hope that no one's feelings are hurt if a particular game isn't gotten to in the course of the weekend. It is only a weekend after all.
AJ
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Sounds good, AJ. I just offered, hoping someone would say, "Rummikub!? I love that, and haven't played it in ages!" Projecting, I guess. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
(actually I do love rummikub and haven't played it in ages, but I don't think it is worth you dragging it across the country) AJ
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It weighs less than a pound. It goes on the "if there's room" list. Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :
If you want to call long distance, borrow my cell phone. Or anyone else's. Is there any plan these days that DOESN'T have free (or virtually free) weekends?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Mine has free weekends, but I opted for the plan that doesn't have free long distance or roaming. (Somewhat cheaper, and I don't do either enough to warrant the extra money every month.)
So I plan to use mine sparingly, and others (with those options) as available.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I love Rummikube and I haven't played it in forever!
And it's even true Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Farmgirl, You mean the King of Activities has to be registered at the hotel? Why wasn't I informed of this prior to usurping the role?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Yay Rummikub.
And the whole plugging stuff into the TVs bears looking into. I know that there are hotels that don't and ones that do. The last time I was at a hotel, it was a Sheraton and we could plug our PS2s in and so on. AJ? (sorry)
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I like Rummikub -- however play it all the time at home so doesn't matter to me one way or the other whether or not you bring it.
(we have, like, every board game ever made, it seems, at my house)
Farmgirl
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Oh, also - I don't know that we have any other weird music buffs since Elizabeth and Speed won't be there, but I'll be bringing my whole weird music mp3 collection, if anyone's interested in sampling.
(for me, weird usually = foreign)
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Yay weird music! I can show you my Japanese stuff. (mostly anime related)
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
*Will be bringing his guitar*
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I am now officially leaving for the airport. Yay! See everyone there!
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Bye Annie! Have a good flight!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
quote: Primal Curve is absolutely 100% right. You can rent dvd players and vcr players there, or pay for 3 hours of old nitendo games, but there isn't any major hookups, not even in the hospitality room. There are pay as you go arcade games and pool tables in the hotel's activity atrium.
So here are the options as I see them:
A) No video games DVDs OR vcr's, because you are all too computer geeky as it is and your mother would be yelling at you to enjoy the fresh air anyway.
B) You pool your money and you pay for the rental. I think a separate video available TV was $60/day and I'm still not sure about the VCRS and DVD players. I am not sanctioning this as an "official" Kama Con event because there is no way our $10/head surcharge will cover it.
C) Someone (and it ain't gonna be me) will have to actually BRING a TV and/or DVD player and VCR as well as a playstation. (I'm not bringing our TV because it is too tempermental and moving it disagrees with it.)
You guys figure it out. I'm inclined towards A personally. (hmm maybe I do have maternal instinct )
AJ
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*seriously contemplates bringing her small TV/VCR (has it's own carrying case, and is meant to be portable)*
*decides she ain't THAT nuts*
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I can bring my dvd player if someone brings a tv.
edit: maybe I'll break down and bring my tv... hmmmmmm....
[ August 11, 2004, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: Telperion the Silver ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
My laptop plays DVDs, but only from zone 2!
Ha ha ha! Foreign films for everyone!
*pretends hers will be the only laptop there*
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I'm not haulin' a TV from Kansas. I second what AJ says about doing without.
Farmgirl
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:*decides she ain't THAT nuts*
See? Sound mental health often boils down to a matter of choices.
*not contemplating hauling any AV equipment from home at all. so don't even ask.*
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
But but.. Lord of the Rings!!
*sniff*
Well... well... *sniff* I guess I can still give my dissertation... Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Telperion,
Look on the bright side.
This means I won't be pulling out the videotape of me "duking it out" with Peter Singer.
We all are making sacrifices. Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Can't remember if this is the thread for ideas about possible outings, but Diane caught something on the news today that sounds really interesting:
quote:Dr. Seuss, we thought we knew you. When you died in 1991, you were America's most beloved children's author, a cuddly grandpa with only the slightest hint of Cat-in-the-Hat impishness in your smile.
Turns out there was more, much more, behind that smile. In "The Art of Dr. Seuss," a retrospective and national touring exhibit making a stop in Chicago at Atlas Galleries, many viewers may be surprised to discover that Theodor Seuss Geisel had a widely varied career apart from his children's books. It included stints as a commercial artist, wartime editorial cartoonist, surrealist painter and social satirist whose images and poems depicting the well-heeled featured a surprisingly bawdy bite -- as in this passage from an early lyric, tossed off one morning after inspiration struck him in the midst of shaving:
Mrs. Van Bleck of the Newport Van Blecks Is so goddamn rich She has gold-plated sex . . .
"It's the kind of mischievous humor you sort of suspected was there in some of the children's books like The Cat in the Hat, which was considered pretty subversive," says exhibit curator William Dreyer. "His adult humor was really rich, really wonderful and sometimes ribald. We want to bring that out, to let people know that he had a very unique wit that he expressed mostly with his friends and didn't really put out there in a broad sense because it probably conflicted with his persona as the world's greatest children's-book author."
The "subversive" Geisel can also be glimpsed in his La Jolla Birdwoman series, in which he sent up his daffily decadent Southern California neighbors in avian form -- such as Martini Bird, who toddles about in a sheer peignoir with a Teddy bear in one hand and a cocktail in the other.
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
Kat, Jenny won't be there!?! Am I missing something? I thought she was in my room...
Noah, you are bringing Settelers? I won't bring mine then.
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
Are we definitely a negative on video game hookup? I don't want to cart my dancepads around if I don't have to.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
In the end, the Rummikub (along with the other games) got packed.
And I finally (I have been trying for weeks!) reached someone at the school around the corner, who confirmed that they do indeed have Sabbath morning services. I think I can handle a 0.1 mile walk. Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I wanna play DDR...
Well, if there's not going to be TV, you and me could always go play at an arcade or something, X-ey. My treat. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Theca will be bringing a TV Theca
AJ
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
It's a LITTLE TV. Several years old, with a remote. Someone else can figure out if they can do anything with it.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I just looked at the TV. There are NO connections anywhere except the plugin, and the cable/antennae plug. That's all there is. I'll bring it anyway.
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
If it really is a coax cable connector, then all we need is one of these babies or a similar adapter, and we can use my Playstation (which I did indeed pack). I don't have this adapter, nor do I have the extra money to get one. But it's only about $8.00, and you can get them at Best Buy and stuff, so if anyone wants to run out and buy one, that would be great.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I'll pick one up on my way in, then.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Don't start the readings without me!
I can lead 1,000 Ideas In an Hour, if anyone likes.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Do we want to take bets on the Orcs vs Humans disagreements?
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, but maybe we can get notes from as to how to do it.
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