Crap, I would so be there if it weren't for the fact that Seattle is in like Kadjookistan or wherever.

Southern Oregon never has anybody cool around.

Hey Rory!
Have fun w/Gigi.  You know, a LOT of the actors will be in Burbank this November.  You may want to check that out.  In fact, Gigi actually lives in LA; along w/David Franklin, Claudia Black and, of course BB.

Our web site for the Scapecast (the Farscape Podcast) can link you up with all our favorite Aussie actors and the Burbank con.

Check us out!  

Lindy

Wow, that really is like 20 minutes away from my house.  Perhaps linen pants are in order.

"I'll be the guy who isn't covered in goth makeup and a cloak."

So you go disguised as a good looking guy. They´ll look at you like you are the alien. Gigi will think ´who is that guy that actually knows how to dress well´. However, if she´s into fake Klingons, you´d be out of luck.

Adam -

"Wow, that really is like 20 minutes away from my house.  Perhaps linen pants are in order."

I think we've been over this. You haven't even *watched* the damn show!

I might permit you to stand in line and fetch me things as I need them - food, drink, toilet paper - but I would not allow your linen pants to show up and ruin my experience.

Adam, Adam, Adam... you're like one of these sales fanatics who find coupons for things that drive them into a buying frenzy, but for things they don't want - they're only buying them because they're on bloody sale!

This is your mind, dawgg: "I've never watched Farscape, I would never go a great distance for it, but one of its cast members (I don't know which one or what or why) is going to be in my neighborhood, ergo I shall become a Farscape fan person! Woooooo!"

No. No, Adam. I forbid you.

You may come if you watch the first episode. Anything less, and to bring you would be like providing counterfeit money a home in an honest cash register.

You make me SICK, Kinney! SICK!

And I'll be by your office tomorrow so that I can shake my fists at you. That part is meant to accompany the "SICK!" bits, but I am unfortunately unable to provid the full experience at this time due to technical limitations of neopoleon.com.

kettch I've been to southern oregon and your making comments about the middle of nowere? There is nothing down there that Seattle doesn't have and oh yah it's not in oregon.

Rory see you there maybe.  And if I do can I have your autograph?

Zer0, perhaps I should have said Seattle is *as far away* as Kadjookistan.

I though my comment did at least an adequate job of expressing my frustration at southern oregon's lack of stuff. Just because I live in so. Oregon doesn't make me an ignorant hick.

Hah, now that is something that I would go to Seattle for. The chance to see Rory set up a competing autograph booth near some celebrity, and then see hundreds of Rory fans show up.

kettch -

"Crap, I would so be there if it weren't for the fact that Seattle is in like Kadjookistan or wherever.

Southern Oregon never has anybody cool around."

Yeah. That sucks. When I lived in Portland, I didn't mind making the three hour drive (on a good day) up to Seattle if there was something interesting going on, but I never would have made the drive from farther south. What would have been a three hour drive from Portland would have been an eight hour drive for you. That's just too much.

Even for Gigi Edgely :|

Zer0Mass -

"Rory see you there maybe.  And if I do can I have your autograph?"

It'd be cool if you came, but the autograph thing might be a problem.

First off, I don't want to steal Gigi's thunder. You and I know that, as soon as all the klingons in line discover who I am, they'll want my autograph. Not because they'd know who I am, but because you would have asked for my autograph, and that would make me look important. On the off chance they could sell my autograph on eBay, I think they'd consider my signature a worthy side trip while waiting in line.

I hope you understand. I just don't want a mob on my hands. It's really scary when hordes of guys dressed as Stargate Atlantis wraiths are trying to get a piece of your clothing, tearing you to shreds and tatters just to say they've touched you.

Trust me. I know.

You wouldn't believe how many times they've had to shut down a supermarket or a movie theater because somebody recognized me behind the fake beard and funny glasses. To date, Rory stampedes have been blamed for eight-two deaths in the greater King County area. Like Scotty's engines, my conscience can't take much more of this.

But, if you're there, we'll totally hang out and talk and stuff.

No pens.

Kettch - your right not everybody from oregon is a hick.  It's more that I grew up in vancouver and have great although possibly unwarranted hate for everything south of the river, except Powell's.

Rory- And here I was going to have you sign my copy of "The Old New Thing" by Raymond Chen.  Mostly cause you don't have a book out yet that I know of and they wont let me into Raymonds office so I can suprise him some early morning.  But why would Klingons and am autograph from a Nebari?

Zer0Mass -

I can't tell if you were serious about the autograph thing or not. Dismiss this if you weren't, but if you were, I thought I'd at least explain my feelings about signatures and stuff.

"And here I was going to have you sign my copy of 'The Old New Thing' by Raymond Chen."

That's actually very close to what I like to do :) The only time I feel all right about signing something is when it's someone else's work. It feels irreverent, so I forget about the strangeness of autographs.

When people ask me for my autograph, I feel weird (talking about people who are there, pen in hand, asking me to sign something or other). It feels weird because:

1. I don't feel like someone who should be autographing things. I can't figure out why people want my autograph, and so I feel awkward. I won't sign something unless someone *really* wants me to, but I still won't understand why it's desired.

2. I love meeting readers/watchers/whatever - the most fun I've ever had at conferences or whatever has been with these people. The best night was hanging out with Aydika and a guy named Phil when .Net Rocks went to Vegas. The three of us went out and found the bits of trouble you can only find in Vegas, and there was a feeling of solidarity. Phil knew what he was getting into, so there was no strange getting-to-know-everybody phase. It was like InstaFriend. I dig that. The more casual, the better. That said, I think I actually did autograph something for him :) I forget, but that was the booze...

3. You and I have encountered each other here and there around the net - whenever I see your name (alias or real), I feel like I'm in the company of a friend. Yeah, we've never met in "real life," but you certainly aren't a stranger. There are probably a couple dozen people about whom I feel the same way - the kind of people I'd lend a couch to if they were on a long trip, no questions asked. That's what Mark Miller did the last time he was out - just crashed on my air mattress, and the conversation was fun. I mean, he just showed up (really - no invitation or anything - he got my address by calling my mom) and although we've only hung out in person on a few occasions, he's someone I've known online for a while.

I guess that what I mean to say is that you people are friends, and friends don't autograph things for friends. They hang out and belong, and that's far cooler.

Now, Gigi Edgely - I doubt I'll ever get another chance to stand on the other side of the table and think, "Wow. She's real," (when it comes to celebrities, I don't feel like they're real until I've seen them with my own eyes and not in photos or video - I felt the same way about Saturn and Jupiter, btw, until I first saw them through my telescope and knew my eyeball was receiving fresh light, recently reflected from either planet).

Since I'll probably have a grand total of twenty seconds in my life to say, "Hi. You rock," the signature is cool. A neat rememberance of those twenty seconds :)

"Mostly cause you don't have a book out yet that I know of and they wont let me into Raymonds office so I can suprise him some early morning."

I almost had a book. I was contracted to write the O'Reilly C# Developers Notebook, but I realized that I really didn't want to be writing a technical book. I wrote a linux textbook for a vocational school - not a big deal - and that was enough.

The next book is absolutely going to be neopoleon. And I have a solid plan in place to get it done. I'm going to post about it sometime in the next week or so. I'm super-dooper excited...

"But why would Klingons and am autograph from a Nebari?"

'Cause she rocks so much that they'd jump the franchise-ship for it :)