Well, well, well. Ye Webmistress bets (if she were a gambling woman, which she's not... well, not much, anyway), that all you folks out there in NeconOtherLand (that's the sad and sorry world which exists outside Necon) thought you weren't going to see pictures from 2003. Didn't ya? C'mon-- admit it. Well again, guess what?
Ha, and DOUBLE ha! Here they are, the Memories of 2003! Muhahahahahahahaha!!!! This year, we have the following oh-so-fine-and-fun folks (in no peculiar order) to thank for our Memory Pictorial:
We received WAY more photos than we could ever hope to post, so we've picked through the ocean of images and tried to come up with stuff that actually showed faces as opposed to crowds (although sometimes we broke down and went for bodies en masse). Ye Webmistress even put a few comments in here and there. Deal with it. Be brave. Be strong. Necon has always been adept at teaching its Campers great stamina.
Well, today I set about trying to do just that... and unfortunately, it's a no go. The pictures are still there, but the logistics of opening each one, saving it to a lower resolution, then to a floppy disk, then switching computers, is just too time- and labor-intensive. Once upon a time I had a switch box that would connect that old computer to a laptop where I could use Laplink, which is what I'd always planned to do. The switchbox and cable are buried in the garage somewhere, and the old computer has a "moving issue"-- if I move it more than a couple of inches with anything other than a velvet touch, the video card works loose. This necessitates pulling the whole thing apart, unscrewing the case, reseating the video card (which is held in place by, uh, er, a twist tie [well the (#&@*&$ thing wouldn't quite fit when it was upgraded!], then putting everything back together... and trying to move it again.
Paul, I apologize. You put a lot of effort into sending those photos (I haven't forgotten how you sized them down in deference to the poor Internet connection I had back then). I'll do better in the future, I promise.
Dennis Cummins
Linda Addison
Jason Quinn (did I get that right?)
On another matter, after Necon 2003 Paul Dobish, owner of Otherworlds Bookstore sent me more than fifty photographs for the 2003 Necon Memories page. Back then I was working on a hybrid computer which had original parts dating back to 1992. Not long after that I moved to a different house and (finally) came into the 21st century with a new computer. The problem was getting those pictures from the old to the new, the old one being so old that it not only had no CD burner but no USB connection. I'd apologized to Paul on the now-history Necon Message Board and promised I would someday get those pictures up on the site.
9/5/05
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