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04:20 pm Blown Off My Feet

08:44 pm Nothing by Comparison

02:37 pm Just Enough to Look Nice

04:16 pm Quiet

03:08 pm Rules Apply to Everyone

04:44 pm WSFS: Amending Constitutional Amendments Pending Ratification

08:28 pm Ambulance Night at North Lyon County Fire

06:48 pm Taking the Plunge: I'm a Candidate Now - 5 comments

08:37 pm Whirlwind Paperwork Trip

06:31 pm Time Change Day

08:02 pm One of the Worst Workdays of the Year

08:50 pm Shop We Must

07:31 pm Another Home Project (Nearly) Done - 1 comment

04:05 pm Ugh

12:44 pm Not Much Better

06:46 pm No Easy Road

04:34 pm On the Road With OTR

07:50 pm Radio Silence Ahead

08:47 pm 2018/1943 Hugo Award Finalists Announcements This Weekend
08:57 pm Health Matters - 1 comment

09:07 pm Selling San Jose

11:59 pm Hugo Finalists Announced - 3 comments

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kalimac
9 Apr 2021, 18:05
DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
And that was the problem with the Hawaii bid. The half-assed, seat-of-the-pants way it was put together at the last minute by people who should have been at least thinking if not planning ahead…
kevin_standlee
9 Apr 2021, 13:19
DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
Remember, I was there. Yes, there was dissatisfaction. The Toronto SMOFCon was viewed, as people told me at the time, as the last chance for at least one of the bids to pull themselves together. When…
kalimac
9 Apr 2021, 12:36
DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
Well, I disagree. I remember hearing of extreme smoffish dissatisfaction with the prospective bids before the filing deadline, but nobody was minded to do anything about it.
kevin_standlee
9 Apr 2021, 11:40
DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
...there was nothing about the existing bidders for 1993 which revealed itself after the filing deadline, so there was really no excuse.
Not true, although in those mostly-pre-internet days, it…
kalimac
9 Apr 2021, 05:12
DisCon III Moves to December -- and Ignores the WSFS Constitution
If people are unhappy with the existing 2023 bids, what would they have done about it had Discon not changed its dates? (I don't imagine there's anything about the dynamics of the election for 2023…

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