Don’t use hotel sprinkler heads as part of your BDSM play. 
<snerk> I have friends who were at that con, and I think in the room below …
If I’d thought to charge people money to let them tell me about their character, I’d be a wealthy fellow…
It’s never too late. Get booth space at the next Con and set up a comfy chair, lots of Irish coffee and a sign that says “Tell me about your character - $5.”
“The Critic is IN/OUT”
Most convention artists seem to be working on the “$1000 glass of lemonade” principle. I’ve seen things that you’d usually find drawn on school desks with multi-hundred dollar price tags. There is some nice stuff out there, but if I see one more cute baby dragon(or worse, kitten with dragon wings) wrapped around a glittery egg, someone is going to find out if those Klingon weapons on display against the wall are functional or not.
Well, they are con artists…
Windycon is this weekend.
NEVER work Con Security. Worst con experiences of my life.
If the Con goers cause excessive elevator congestion/delays, the Hotel staff may become annoyed.
If the Con staff tries to minimize elevator congestion or delays by regulating how many people take the elevator at a time (packed-full elevators get stuck more often), the Hotel staff may become annoyed.
Make absolutely sure you have crash space BEFORE you arrive at the Con. Don’t just take it for granted that if you were told you would get crash space for working Security at a Con, that they would actually have any available for you by the time you get there (having college classes in a city 4 hours away can put a crimp on your arrival time).
On that note, NEVER work Con Security.
On the other hand, hanging with Con Security(especially grave shift) is a great idea. You learn a lot, and there’s always something going on…and if there isn’t, they’ll create it. 
-You can, in fact, sleep with your head on a backpack on the floor of a hotel room coat closet.
-It is possible for your roommates in said hotel room to be so tired as to miss the obvious jokes. (At least until everyone wakes up the next day.)
I have lost all respect for you.
I was exchequer in charge of their room tab as well. No drinkee. Although he alluded many times to having run up a tab or two on con hosts. I think Jeanne’s Buddhism finally tipped them away from chemical euphoriants.
If you are ever at Orycon, ask about the night Raven came out of the closet. 
Sayeth G’Kar, in the Book of G’Kar: “There are some people for whom the words ‘never again’ have special meaning. So it is with us.”
And with me. One two-year, full-time stint herding angry cats, uphill against a tsunami of assholes, was enough for a lifetime.
Having been too, and entertained at (Irish folk band) several WesterCons and LosCons, I also can vouch for the coolness of Larry Niven.
Quick sidetrack - do you work for (or own) Nitrosyncretic Press? If so, thanks for the good work.
The time I’m thinking of was WorldCon 54/LA Con III.
Have you got the bid, or just now made the bid?
It was officially announced last weekend that WFC 2015 will be in Saratoga in 2015.