# WooHoo ! I'm going to WorldCon !

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**Created:** [August 5, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-im-going-to-worldcon/505372 "2009-08-05T01:20:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-im-going-to-worldcon/505372/1 "2009-08-05T01:20:24Z")

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One last day of work and Thursday, WorldCon starts ! I just went and picked up my registration package today (lots of cool events) and tomorrow I will start choosing which I will attend. Anybody else coming ?

ETA : Mods if it is in the wrong Forum, just move. Thanks

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**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-im-going-to-worldcon/505372/2 "2009-08-07T09:01:58Z")

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Yup - won’t be there until tomorrow morning, but I’m coming. First time I’ve ever been to any science fiction convention at all, let alone the big one - should be pretty awesome. 🙂

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**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-im-going-to-worldcon/505372/3 "2009-08-07T12:46:54Z")

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It is awesome. Ispent several hours there yesterday and I am going back there today. Words of advice : beware of the Dealer’s room unless you are prepared to spend lots of cash (or ready to grind your teeth to nubs :D)

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woohoo-im-going-to-worldcon/505372/4 "2009-08-07T18:00:34Z")

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Have fun! My wife and I have attended two WorldCons (the last two ChiCons). The first one I was there to demo 3D computer animation on the Amiga using LightWave and they gave me a pair of free passes. The second, I paid to attend because I had so much fun at the first.

Favorite moments:  
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[li]Cliff Stoll giving a lecture about _The Cuckoo’s Egg_ - and anything else that came into his head.[/li][li]Attending a screening of _Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension_ with the whole audience whistling along to the theme song and shouting “Planet 10!” and “Real soon!” to the questions “Where are we going?” and “When?”.[/li][li]Attending an “At Party” back when all the people at WorldCon who had e-mail addresses could fit into a single hotel room.[/li][li]Visiting all the party floors. The tradition is taking the elevator to the top and walking down. After a floor or two, the wisdom of this becomes apparent.[/li][li]Seeing a girl in one of the party suites showing off her Janet Jackson style nipple plate to Eric Raymond (ESR).[/li][/ul]  
…and a general sense of joy in the knowledge that I had found a place where I was not only not the most eccentric person in the place, I wasn’t even a contender.