Archive for the ‘Convergence’ Category
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Convergence 2008 was a wild, fun, and, at times exasperating time. Most of the time it was a very up convention, but they did run into some problems, some of which can be attributed to growing pains. Not surprising as the Con grew by about 400 attendees over last year. ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
We're finally back from Convergence. It was a wild, and at many times, frustrating event this year. Here is the first video clip from the con that I have been able to process for the heckuvit. It's me, Sqotty MacKlingon, with the two guys dressed up as Captain Kirk (Earl ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Convergence 2007 was, once again, a convention that should not be missed. The Klingons of KAG were in full force with elements of the Cold Death Quadrant in attendance included the crews of the IKV Rakehell, IKV Black Thunder, and the IKV Warhammer.
The Rakehell arrived the day before the ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Convergence 2006 kicked off with a blast and never slowed down. There were five ships from the Cold Death Quadrant, and Klingons came from points further to see Robert O'Reilly (Gowron) and J.G. Hertzler (Martok), this year's Guests of Honor. And they were well worth the effort to ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
I am back from Convergence, and getting back to something resembling normal. Between the LMH and myself, we have something like 6GB of photos and video to process. That's a lot!
Convergence was a blast. The Guests of Honor were shown a great time and all want to come ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Convergence 2005 is officially over! And, as usual, it was a blast. Be sure to check out my during the con reports. See the following pages for more write ups:
Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Report 4
Now for pictures and more details:
Kelly McCullough, Elizabeth Bear, Patrick Smith (back), Kevin Trainor ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
The photos with commentary is now up in the
Mission Reports section. Enjoy.
When you are done there, Check out the Rampant Wombat for more Convergence details.
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Convergence 2005 is over. In fact, its now the day after. Time to get this final post finished and write a mission report and put up the photos. Not to mention pick the girls up from doggie camp and get some yard work done around here.
Final numbers for Convergence, roughly, ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
It is Sunday morning at Convergence 2005. I have survived another night of drunken revelry. At least, this time, it was easier as I chose not to get hammered like on Friday night.
Saturday evening started out with dinner in the bar with some friends, then heading up to the masquerade ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Afternoon…the Raptor Center put on a very good demo, featuring three of their touring birds: Otis, the Red Faced Screech Owl; Chuk, the Peregrine Falcon; Madame Maxine, the Bald Eagle.. This was an educational presentation in a freeform format.
The Raptor Center volunteers, Sharon and Amber fielded numerous questions about ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Its now the morning of Day 2 of Convergence 2005. and I am just a wee bit hung over.
Yesterday, after getting checked in and overcoming problems with the card key programming for the elevator so I can get to my room on the club level, I headed down to the ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
This is the Twin Cities big convention. Held at the Radisson Bloomington, a hotel nicely laid out for SF conventions, with main party rooms in the cabana surrounding the pool, and meeting rooms throughout the hotel. Attendance was expected to hit 2000, which puts it on a par ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
Silly me! I didn't take a lot of notes. Just pics.
Enjoy!
166k JPEG Laura, the Captain of the IKV Rakehell
182k JPEG Evil, but cute
153k JPEG Klingon pirate radio
130k JPEG Klinging on to the lady!
161k JPEG Klingon sword fighting demo
106k JPEG a scene from Sis'Kil and Kil'bert, by ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2003
All pics are thumbnails. Klick on the image link for a larger view.
Convergence 2003, running over the 4th of July weekend, and held at the Bloomington Radisson Hotel, started off with a bang. Party bang, that is.
After getting checked into the hotel and gear moved into my room, ...
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