Obligatory upcoming con poll

[yendi]

[Poll #1335547]

Comments

[ex-yakaveng.livejournal.com]

Where's the "maybe" option, good sir? Are you asking me to be decisive so shortly after my morning tea?

[yendi]

The "maybe" option is the invisible one that comes of not filling out the poll in the first place. :-)

[ex-yakaveng.livejournal.com]

...or, apparently, you can just choose to not answer a question.

But by not filling out the poll, you won't know when to watch carefuNooooobody expects the geeky yak. Or something.lly. ACK! See. You should be careful and add a maybe option.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Not going to Vericon (too many errands this weekend), but I can give you a ride.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about Vericon, so I'm not going because -- aside from you and shadesong mentioning it -- I've never heard of it.

I used to go to Boskone regularly, but Farpoint is the same weekend, and Farpoint is a far more valuable con for me.

[yendi]

Vericon has the advantage and disadvantage of being a tiny con. Only a few panels (on the first two days only), lots of board gaming, an anime room, a damned fine con suite, and (because it's on the Harvard campus) no real hotel presence. OTOH, they bring in some big-name guests of honor (Orson Scott Card last year, Kim Stanley Robinson this year), and I believe they pay for travel and housing for all guests (if I'm recalling what yuki_onna said correctly). Last year had a panel of YA folks -- Sharyn November, Lois Lowry, Donna Jo Napoli, and a bunch of others) that was incredible.

We like it because it's not only local, but a nice, relaxed change of pace from Arisia.