Michael Hanscom
@michaelhans.com
Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him) 🖖
Primarily a Mastodon user (@djwudi@tenforward.social); semi-active here. Blogging since the '90s: https://michaelhans.com/
Primarily a Mastodon user (@djwudi@tenforward.social); semi-active here. Blogging since the '90s: https://michaelhans.com/
I get the frustration. For a brief explanation of why we’ve been on this date for most of our existence (TL;DR: more fiscally responsible), see our FAQ: www.norwescon.org/about/faq/#n...
Some years we have at-con religious observations, but that depends on having someone volunteer to arrange them.
Some years we have at-con religious observations, but that depends on having someone volunteer to arrange them.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
This is a collection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to the Seattle-area science fiction and fantasy convention Norwescon, covering its culture, traditions, and idiosyncrasies.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I get the frustration. For a brief explanation of why we’ve been on this date for most of our existence (TL;DR: more fiscally responsible), see our FAQ: www.norwescon.org/about/faq/#n...
Some years we have at-con religious observations, but that depends on having someone volunteer to arrange them.
Some years we have at-con religious observations, but that depends on having someone volunteer to arrange them.
Some technical notes: The book was scanned in at 300 dpi, OCR'd and manually corrected for accuracy, and the final PDF is fully tagged for accessibility and verified with PAC as meeting both PDF/UA and WCAG 2.2 standards.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Some technical notes: The book was scanned in at 300 dpi, OCR'd and manually corrected for accuracy, and the final PDF is fully tagged for accessibility and verified with PAC as meeting both PDF/UA and WCAG 2.2 standards.
This is a really neat bit of Norwescon history, and the first time I'd seen one of these in person. I knew they were small, but I hadn't really realized how small until I got to scan this one in.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is a really neat bit of Norwescon history, and the first time I'd seen one of these in person. I knew they were small, but I hadn't really realized how small until I got to scan this one in.
I can think of no good reason why it should take that long, unless your business collects responses, prints them out, faxes them somewhere else, and has some underpaid intern manually comparing the faxed pages to a database and typing a separate MySQL query to remove every individual address.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I can think of no good reason why it should take that long, unless your business collects responses, prints them out, faxes them somewhere else, and has some underpaid intern manually comparing the faxed pages to a database and typing a separate MySQL query to remove every individual address.