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Another day, another business meeting session. It went a lot more quickly than the first session (which did its job to weed out what was not necessary).
When I voted in site selection yesterday, I was asked if I had voted in a preferential ballot before. "Well, I ran site selection in 1987," I pointed out. I didn't add that I was also Hugo administrator in 2005, and have voted in just about every site selection since 1981.
Got caught out by a common problem at Worldcons yesterday afternoon. There was a panel of the Fermi paradox listed in the pocket programme but when I got to the room as shown, it wasn't there. Then I went looking to see if there was a new pink sheet listing changes to the programme and found that it had been moved to a room the other side of the convention centre. Missed the first ten minutes.
After that I went and ate and returned to the hotel ready for the parties. There was a college football game being shown on a big screen in the hotel lobby. Never really got into college football, so I had no idea who the teams were or whether they were particularly favoured. College football always seems an odd concept. Is any university sport in the UK televised with so much razzmatazz (except possibly the boat race)? Also, the giant screen was suspended from one of the balconies in the lobby, so it moved in the wind, which was mildly disconcerting.
Fought my way up the lifts to get to the parties. At the London party, the person on the door (whom I didn't know) decided just by looking at me that I was over 21. Stayed around the parties until the site selection result was announced. I met one of the Finnish team in the corridor who told me, "Spokane by 35 votes, Helsinki had led on the first round of voting." Ah well, always had an idea about going to Spokane ever since reading the name in a Doc Smith Lensman book when I was a teenager.
When I last stayed in this hotel for a Worldcon, not only Princess Diana died, but also Mother Theresa and the conductor Sir Georg Solti. I see this morning that Sir David Frost has died and I saw Seamus Heaney died the other day. Who's next?
When I voted in site selection yesterday, I was asked if I had voted in a preferential ballot before. "Well, I ran site selection in 1987," I pointed out. I didn't add that I was also Hugo administrator in 2005, and have voted in just about every site selection since 1981.
Got caught out by a common problem at Worldcons yesterday afternoon. There was a panel of the Fermi paradox listed in the pocket programme but when I got to the room as shown, it wasn't there. Then I went looking to see if there was a new pink sheet listing changes to the programme and found that it had been moved to a room the other side of the convention centre. Missed the first ten minutes.
After that I went and ate and returned to the hotel ready for the parties. There was a college football game being shown on a big screen in the hotel lobby. Never really got into college football, so I had no idea who the teams were or whether they were particularly favoured. College football always seems an odd concept. Is any university sport in the UK televised with so much razzmatazz (except possibly the boat race)? Also, the giant screen was suspended from one of the balconies in the lobby, so it moved in the wind, which was mildly disconcerting.
Fought my way up the lifts to get to the parties. At the London party, the person on the door (whom I didn't know) decided just by looking at me that I was over 21. Stayed around the parties until the site selection result was announced. I met one of the Finnish team in the corridor who told me, "Spokane by 35 votes, Helsinki had led on the first round of voting." Ah well, always had an idea about going to Spokane ever since reading the name in a Doc Smith Lensman book when I was a teenager.
When I last stayed in this hotel for a Worldcon, not only Princess Diana died, but also Mother Theresa and the conductor Sir Georg Solti. I see this morning that Sir David Frost has died and I saw Seamus Heaney died the other day. Who's next?
