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Hey, look at that! More questions!
Yeah, so I've got this internet thing, and I know how to use it... I'm also curious as hell... bad combination, I know (don't ever google filching... trust me on that one).
Anyway, the point! I have questions about the con. I'm new to the area (I say new, I've lived on the other side of the bay for right at a year now, I just don't get out much). I just barely missed Mobile Con last year, but I plan on making it this year (if only to get my con fix). I understand this is a sci fi con, but so were most of the ones I attended in the Chattanooga TN area in prior years. That didn't stop people from dressing up as everything from Jack Sparrow to Obi Wan Kenboi, to demons and monsters. Is this that kind of con? Friendly people in costume, just looking to have a good time, etc etc? I don't imagine I'll be in anything special on friday night (think cargo shorts and a polo, at best), but I might try my hand at someting on Saturday... as there appears to be a costume contest that day.
Question number 2: What is the relative age here? Im 28, I'm a software engineer, and I like meeting like minded people close to my own age (+/- 5 years or so). Am I going to be dissapointed? For the record, people older than me don't bother me (unless someone the age of my mother is hitting on me... then I have issues), but at the last con I was at in Chattanooga, I had a gaggle of high school girls giving me their undiveded attention... Someone who will die by my hand one day gave those girls enough money to buy me in the slave auction... I won't go into details, but let me just say that I don't want to go back to prision!
Next up: Roughly, what percentage of the people who attend this convention are local to the area? The biggest problem I've had since I got down here was finding people who aren't FREAKING TOURISTS! Granted, I live in gulf shores, I imagine it's more of a problem here than it is in Mobile, but I would really really like to meet at least a hand full of people who I could actually develop a friendship with that wouldn't involve an airplane ticket to go visit. So yeah... am I likely to meet (relatively) local people of like minds and interests, or are most of the con goers traveling in from far and wide?
Question 4: Is 42^(1/2) the root of all knowledge? (Please dear god let me not be the only person on the web who gets that joke...)
Finally, (and I guess most importantly) What goes on at this convention? At the smaller con's in TN I went too, a great deal of the time spent in the convention involved people floating from room party to room party, getting plasterd and sitting down around the dance floor, pretending no one knew how to dance. I don't drink, and I look like a wounded gazelle on the dance floor, so that didn't really leave me much to do except float around the con suite and the room parties and start up conversations with friends I hadn't seen since the last Con. I would say that about 90% of the people who attended those cons, knew dozzens or hundreds of other people who traveled in the same circles, so it was usually pretty easy to find someone you knew to talk too. However, if I make it to Mobicon this year, I'll be going alone, and I'll know no one there. Is this going to be a problem? How welcoming are you to new and/or strange faces around the Con circuits down here? I like to think I'm a fairly decent guy, occasionally witty without being a smartass (except when someone deserves it  ), but I'm not the most outgoing guy, particularly in person. I don't want to show up, shell out $40, and be left out of everything interesting because no one knows who I am.
I could probably go on and on like this, (I tend to ramble on forums... noticed? ) but I imagine you're tired of reading this post. So, I'll wrap it up and say that i look forward to hearing some replies, and I sincerely look forward to getting over to Mobile in a couple weeks to visit the Con.
Ciao,
Crasn
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
Question 1: YO can dress up in whatever you wasnt, as long as it doesnt show anything we shouldnt see.
Question 2: Most of the people there are in their 20s-40s, we do have people of all ages there.
Question 3: I would say about 40% are local people.
Question 4: 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Question...(my hubby is a huge Douglas Adams fan)
Well the last question is an easy one! We have fun! There are panels, discussions, auctions, Promotional Rooms, gaming, merchants room, costume contests, anime rooms, etc...
You should definitely come. You will have a great time!
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
Re Answer 1: Cool... like I said, probably nothing more extraordinary on friday than cargo pants and a polo, but I do have a couple of con costumes that might fit into a sci fi con theme
Re Answer 2: Spiffy
Re Answer 3: Good enough for me
Re Answer 4: (warning: geek speak ahead) Any number raised to the one half power is the same as taking the square root of the number. If 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, would not the square root of that be the root of all knowledge?
yeah, I know... I'm a geek.
Re Answer 5: I can do fun Odds are good that I'll make this con. I talked it over with my boss, and she promises not to make me work over the weekend, so it's just a matter of getting driving directions and pulling some cash out of ye old bank account to pay for my badge.
So, I should see you in a couple weeks 
ciao,
Crash
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
Very cool! The directions are easy. Take I-10 west to Mobile. Get on I-65 then, get off on the Airport Blvd exit and head west. Take the first right onto S. Beltline Hwy. The hotel will be on the left.
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
If you're at Mobi this year you'll probably know me soon enough, and learn never to listen to me.... but since you don't know that now I figured I should throw my three cents in...
Question 1: People do dress up, and much like other Cons it isn't always directly Sci-Fi (every con has at least 5 Jack Sparrow's these days don't they?). And of course, there is a costume contest, so everyone is encouraged to dress up My only recommendation is to keep in mind that MobiCon is family friendly for the most part, so normal public decency laws tend to apply. Seems intuitive, but worth metnioning.
Question 2: I just turned 33, my wife just turned 29, and we're probably a good median measurement for the age range. There will be some young and some old, but a big chunk around your age range.
Question 3: For our part my wife and I are not local, we used to live in New Orleans which probably also doesn't count but now we're much farther away in FL. However, Jaclyn's numbers seem about dead on in my estimation also. Plus, it never hurts to meet more out of towners also if they are like minded and you'll see them several times a year at other conventions
Question 4: It is the root answer, but what's the question.... Also a Douglas Adams fan.
Question 5: The answer is "a little bit of everything". There will be a dealer's room of course, various panels, events, parties, art shows, gaming, all your standard convention type stuff. The organizers do a very good job of trying to have something for everyone. But to me the real measure of a convention is the people. I've been to many a DragonCon, many a VulCon (as small now defunct con in New Orleans), and every size in between. They will all have similar events, with the occasional unique item, but what really differentiates them is size and people. Making new friends and reuniting with old ones is the most important thing at a convention for me, and MobiCon has perfected that science.
Question for you: The Con you mentioned in Chattanooga, would that be ChattaCon? If so, you might know more people at Mobi than you realize. There's a sizeable crossover in crowd, I can think of at least 30 people who attend both regularly. In addition, if you've ever been to HyperiCon in Nashville or Dragon in Atlanta you probably will recognize folks from there too.
Oh, and when you see me (my badge name will say Age and I'm usually making a fool of myself), come say hi.
Hope this helps,
Age.
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
Thank you for explaining this more in detail!
See you at MOBICON next weekend!!!!!!
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5/12/2007, 9:49
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Re: Hey, look at that! More questions!
Actually, yes... I have been to Chatticon several times, and Liberty Con, Hallowcon, and Galacticon/Fantasci-con. Heh... and here I thought I would get to go to a con and not know a single person there
We'll see if I recognize any familar faces this weekend. I still plan on attending, and I'm really looking forward too it
ciao,
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