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  ICON 20 part 2

   • j********o@***.com
     06/04/2001 03:36:036 UTC

     Highlights of my I-CON experience:

     Someone (JC) thanked me for my "Amusements!" It's nice to know that
     someone

     reads, to paraphrase David Letterman, "my nightly, desperate cry for
     help."

     Mike Dauenheimer's Alumni Reception was great fun. Particular thanks to
     the

     Weingarts for their kindness and understanding. But why does it surprise

     people that I can play with children? (A web page of me with two of my
     nephews

     can be found in members.aol.com/JohnGorno/ ) I have a very bad rep, I
     guess

     because I compartmentalize my life so much. A funny point is, way back
     at

     I-con 9 or so, Sandy Stein had come back after some years absence, and
     was

     driving a bunch of us around in a cargo van, and I think I was singing
     "Mean

     Green Mutha from Outer Space" as we bounced around in the back and she

     commented on having never seen me so excited and voluble - she
     remembered me as

     quiet and shy rather than the garrulous loud-mouth you all expect. This
     is the

     downside of being so private, it takes decades for people to get to know
     you.

     As the Elves say, "Just as you're getting to know a Man, he dies!"

     Thanks to Mike Dauenheimer for making me take a Banquet ticket -
     otherwise, I

     wouldn't have eaten anything that day either.

     The Ralph panel was a real trip down memory lane. I didn't get to say
     all the

     things I wanted, primarily about the good aspects of his personality
     that were

     so easily overlooked, like his love of animals. The Program Book bios of
     Ralph

     and Arun both have great in-jokes! I notice that that attorney Prokow
     still

     advertises in it: maybe I'll drop him a call expressing our
     appreciation.

     Perrianne very graciously chose not to verbally disembowel me (as she
     could

     easily have done), despite my being such a cardinal irritant.

     I bought a game (Amazing Engine: Bughunters) that I wanted to buy years
     ago

     but had missed the opportunity. Those were a great series, marked by a

     concentrated genius, and every one had a map! I'm mulling the
     possibility of

     cross-over between Bughunter, which is very much an "Aliens" homage, and

     Kromosome, the cyberpunk game. GURPS Traveller? Talk about nine lives!

     to be continued...

     Gorno

       • p*******x@****.com
         06/04/2001 04:43:45 UTC

         One day in Teletubbyland, j********o@***.com (JohnGorno) said:

         >Weingarts for their kindness and understanding. But why does it
         surprise

         >people that I can play with children? (A web page of me with two of
         my nephews

         For the same reason it surprises people that I can refrain from
         making

         the one horrible and unnecessary pun.

         We have reputations to live down ;)

         The kids really liked you, though.

         --

         73 de Dave Weingart KA2ESK "They reached for tomorrow, but
         tomorrow's

         mailto:p*******x@****.com more of the same. They reached for

         http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux tomorrow, but tomorrow never came."

         ICQ 57055207 -- Berlin, "Masquerade"