If We Con, Then You Con Too! Need No Steenking You Survived Registration - So Accompanying Piece, “Badges?”) Badges

The Newszine of ConAdian, the 54th World Science Fiction Convention. Sept 1, 1994 Badges? We Don't If we Con, then You Con Too! Need no Steenking You survived registration - so accompanying piece, “Badges?”) Badges.... now what do you do? Once you get your registration By Ross Pavlac materials, you should do what Tips on how to survive registration few fans do: sit down quietly for and get on with the Con. You have had the wisdom and fifteen minutes or so and by Catherine Donahue skill to find one of the distribu take time to look through the tion points for this newsletter, or program book. Nowadays, Wednesday evening, after 1400 you know someone who has. most fans dump it in the suitcase of an expected 3800 attendees Great! The Voyageur is here to and don’t look at it ’till weeks or had been registered, The keep you informed of what is months later. Voyageur surveyed the volun happening at the convention. But there may be information teers at the Registration Area to This will be one of your key that is important to you. Publish dig up hot tips to help those not sources of information on Hos ers can use this to announce already Badged to make it pitality Function locations (the major new titles; Worldcon bids through the ritual of registration things that, in a kinder, gentler (more on this later) publish their with a minimum of hair loss. world used to be called parties), most important ads here, etc. last minute program changes, Take a quick flip through to see For Pre-registered Individuals award listings, urgent committee (continued next page) Tip Number One: Cast your announcements, fasci mind back, way back, to your nating and amusing place of work or residence. Il trivia and anecdotes, a the police were to knock on your bit of whimsy, and door, what name would they call other information to you? Your legal name is the name help you survive the your badge will be under. If, like convention. me, your legal name starts with Look for it twice a G, go to the “G Line”, not the day: at 9:30 am and “D Line”.... 5:30 pm, at various Tip Number Two: If you can locations around the quickly change your legal name con, including most to begin with G, you’ll get official con offices, the through really quickly. 1 inter information booth, and viewed several persons in the II hotel lobbies. Lines and the M Lines who were OK, enough about setting up small camps. us. Your first move is Tip Number Three: If you are a to pick up your regis ‘filthy pro’, you get to do it twicd.W tration materials (sec (Continued next page) Pavlac's guide to the finer points of CONquest (continued from page 1) hour or so to orient yourself to area. Especially keep an eye out if there is anything that might the area outside the con. Mean for any grocery stores or affect you. der back to your hotel to drop Kwik-E-Marts. Any interesting Next, take the pocket pro off the program book, and along looking restaurants? gram and go through it, prefer the way familiarize yourself with Pick up some soft drinks and ably with a colored marker. munchies. For later, when you Note the items that are of return from late-night festivities, interest to you. Try to use it as 'lake the time to find the Voo a Day Planner, to scribble doo message board, the place down appointments and meet where you can leave messages ings. Keep the restaurant guide for other attendees, especially and pocket program with you when you don’t know where at all times - you never know they’re staying. when you’ll need them. Also locate the information desk. If it’s not already dinnertime Becky Thomson and her friendly or later, you should take an staff will be happy to answer questions about the con and Okay, so we do need steenkin1 badges about the local area. Program participants for (Continued from page 1) Yes, Converting Individuals Kidcon: you get the privilege of standing There is a desk marked “Con in two seperate lines. vert". It doesn’t refer to any All KidCon on-site “program Go to your appropriate Pre-Reg religious denomination. This is ming” will take place in the line first, then go around the for folks who are transferring a Carlton Room - located in the corner to the left, to the kindly membership they bought from basement of the Best Western personnel at the Program Partici someone else, or bought a ‘sup Carlton Inn. The Best Western pants Desk. They will give you porting’ but lucked-out and are can be found on Carlton Ave, a nice brown envelope with indeed attending (i.e.. you are across St. Mary Ave from the your name on it. here....where here is we aren’t Convention Centre. Please stop Tip Number Three: Subtip: sure, but we’ll ask Mansfield.) by and check out the area be You lucky pros get a nice blue Tip Number Four: Be specific fore your particular activity. ribbon in the envelope. Put it about who you are and whose ON your badge. It gives you membership you bought. Telling Attention all parents: special status at the Con. I lie, them “It was that guy at the 7-11 but you might impress the after the SF club meeting” isn’t All children must be registered neofen.... good enough. You MUST have for individual Children’s Pro For some reason, this year’s the membership number. gramming activities - including: ribbons have the tape on the babysitting, ChildCarc, field trips wrong side. Before removing the "Problems" AND on-site programming. NO non-stick covering, you should This desk is for the wandering WALK-INS WILL BE ALLOWED. be able to peel it off and restick Shrincrs, the misspelled, the it on the back of your ribbon, unknown, and the truly com To register for these activities, [don’t try Resnicking it unless puter-lost. please stop by the lobby of the you’re a real pro. - Ed.] Then I hope this helps you. My Best Western Carlton Inn (on stick your ribbon on the back of thanks to the patient volunteers Carlton Ave, across St. Mary Ave your badge. at the above desks. from the Convention Centre). Announcements Critical Tools For Surviving a Worldcon by Ross Pavlac Maria’s Modified Comfy-shoe Program Changes If this is your first Worldcon, Law: Unless going to a formal Watch this space! Over the keep in mind that this is much event, always wear the comfiest course of the con, we’ll be longer and more stressful than a walking shoes that you own, and running any changes in pro two-day regional convention. don’t worry about whether they gramming here - from the pros You will need to pace yourself clash with whatever you’re who don’t show, to the panels much better in order to make it wearing. that have been moved or trashed through without collapsing or completely. falling asleep with your face in the soup. Changes for Thursday: Some rules to remember: 3 pm: Delete Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Farber’s Law of Momentum Rusch from the panel “Steps in Management: Sit down when Getting From Manuscript to ever possible. '1’his simple habit Finished Book” (Room 15) of taking short rests at intervals 5-6 pm: Add “Interview of Barry rather than standing or walking Longyear.” Watch our con chair, Pavlac’s First Law of Conven continuously will cut down on John “Leave ‘Em Wanting More" tion Survival: Get five hours of the wear and tear on your feet. Mansfield, interview his long sleep and two meals a day, no And a Word about Hygien: time friend, ConAdian Toastmas matter what. In fact, get at least Odd as it may seem to some, ter Longyear. In room 7. seven hours if at all possible, personal hygiene standards vary especially if you’re over 35- around the world. In science Green Room Hours Trust us - you CAN’T just barrel fiction fandom, if you are inter On Thursday, September 1, the through a Worldcon with no ested in romantic pursuit (or just, Green Room will open at 12:30 sleep and no food. (Potato chips in not accidently offending), we pm and remain open until 6:30 pm. and soda pop arc not a meal.) STRONGLY recommend that, you Most, important of all, don’t shower & shampoo daily, and transpose the numbers - two brush regularly (preferably first Mensa get-together: it is hours of sleep thing in the morning and after requested that, all Mensans at and five meals a dinner before you hit the ConAdian please leave a message day simply does evening parties). Your odds of on the Voodoo Board for Steve not. work (and success will increase dramati Metzger about getting together. yes, it has been tried). cally. Trust us on this. Badge Madness Con Ops asks that it be noted that your badge is your badge. If you really want to have your Klingon name of “K’Mart” or your Weyr name of “F’Tang” in place of your mundane Bob Smith, write it in with magic marker. They just w- M \ Mon. to Wed., Sal. don’t have the spare blanks - or Wimupeg, Manitoba j () ,un _ 6 pm the time - to make name-change R3B 2B9 Canada Thu., Fri.

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