For those people who I call the "Yellow Peril Protestors," I wouldn't worry, if the Beijing bid filing is any indication of their competence. Their cover letter is from one organization, their organizational papers are a cut-and-paste of Spokane's parent corporation (and therefore contain Washington-state-specific references), and their facilities agreement is with a third name, apparently a social media company in China called Guokr. But in any event, the chance of this being an Official Chinese Government Project to Buy Worldcon seems highly unlikely. I'm not expecting Loncon to suddenly see a huge inrush of supporting members of Good Party Members all with an address of a post office box in Hong Kong or something like that.
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2016 Worldcon Site Selection Bidders
For those people who I call the "Yellow Peril Protestors," I wouldn't worry, if the Beijing bid filing is any indication of their competence. Their cover letter is from one organization, their organizational papers are a cut-and-paste of Spokane's parent corporation (and therefore contain Washington-state-specific references), and their facilities agreement is with a third name, apparently a social media company in China called Guokr. But in any event, the chance of this being an Official Chinese Government Project to Buy Worldcon seems highly unlikely. I'm not expecting Loncon to suddenly see a huge inrush of supporting members of Good Party Members all with an address of a post office box in Hong Kong or something like that.
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Let There be More Light!
Our living room has always been difficult to light. This is odd because the walls and ceiling (except the fireplace area) are white, but we've always…
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New Outlet (and Banishing Dust Bunnies)
On Sunday afternoon, we turned off all of the computers and removed the entire computer stack (computers, monitors, keyboards, and the table on which…
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