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PantherCult said:
Nice. I was not so lucky... I attend with a core group of 4 guys. One got in and secured passes but he could only get for 3 ID's and I lost the dice roll... so I'll have to try again on general admission sales time...
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Well, crap.

Okay, I'm sure you already know all the tricks (That are perfectly acceptable to comic con and not against the rules). You can use more than one device during the sale, and you can open multiple windows with different browsers on each device. Just reduce the windows so you can see them all. I hooked up two extra monitors to my laptop and used five different browsers and went into incognito mode on each one. I had ten windows open and ten of those little toucans racing to the finish line, plus I was in a buying group with two other people. So there were thirty windows open between the three of us. Again, all perfectly legal. All comic con asks you to do is not share IP addresses. That's a pretty good system that's worked well for us. See if you can find another buying group because that really helps.

If that fails, let me know. I'll talk to my comic book retailer about getting you an exhibitor badge. Maybe he can spare one.

Hang in there. Where there's a will, there's a way.
 
No worries... its happened before and all my guys who got their passes will log in to try and help as well. But I appreciate it If I strike out in November I may round back to you :)
 
My 8 yr old niece bought me a Monster High Frankie doll because she knows I like women, toys, and punk/alt in that order, and she thought of me.

It's not just a "I know you like toys" gift, she put actual effort in. It's got colored streaked hair, fishnets, drawings on the leg, an eyebrow ring. Kid pays attention to me. She said, "It looks like someone you'd draw."

She will go next to Monday She-Ra and my Ashley Wood Underverse Lil Bat doll.
 
From the "getting weird in my old age" department, I just discovered true zen in the process of cleaning bits of rust off my old sword collection. Just sitting here with a newly pristine armory and feeling stupidly proud about it. Ah, the smell of steel wool and oil in the autumn...
 
docsilence said:
From the "getting weird in my old age" department, I just discovered true zen in the process of cleaning bits of rust off my old sword collection. Just sitting here with a newly pristine armory and feeling stupidly proud about it. Ah, the smell of steel wool and oil in the autumn...
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Severe ADHD's awesome executive dysfunction means I don't do it as often as I should, but I always feel pretty relaxed and trouble-free cleaning my swords. Probably only really need to do it every two months (short of any handling in between), but I actually try to do it once a month if I can, just to reset my brain for a little bit.

Not the same process, of course. I'm just wiping them all down and applying new oil. But it's similar.
 
Damien said:
Severe ADHD's awesome executive dysfunction means I don't do it as often as I should, but I always feel pretty relaxed and trouble-free cleaning my swords. Probably only really need to do it every two months (short of any handling in between), but I actually try to do it once a month if I can, just to reset my brain for a little bit.

Not the same process, of course. I'm just wiping them all down and applying new oil. But it's similar.
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Yeah, I don't do it as often as I should (fortunately they are mostly display and stored in a way where they don't need constant supervision) but 1 a.m. yesterday just hissing steel mesh across the edge and watching corrosion wash away was really chill. I was almost disappointed to find little cleanup needed on the last two.
 
My photographer daughter won a second place and two first place finishes in a (state-wide) first-quarter high school photography contest.
My other kiddo dances, a lot. She takes between 10-14 hours of dance per week. She has been cast as the Nutcracker in this year's rendition of The Nutcracker, All Jazz'd Up.
 
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Red Ogre said:
My photographer daughter won a second place and two first place finishes in a (state-wide) first-quarter high school photography contest.
My other kiddo dances, a lot. She takes between 10-14 hours of dance per week. She has been cast as the Nutcracker in this year's rendition of The Nutcracker, All Jazz'd Up.
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Love hearing when kids are getting into photography in a day and age that really doesn't want people to make art on their own. I was just talking a younger colleague through buying her first professional camera and it was such a delight hearing from someone who wants to know which lenses work best for which situations and how to actually get the shot you want in the camera by understanding the gear. Congrats on her wins!
 
docsilence said:
Love hearing when kids are getting into photography in a day and age that really doesn't want people to make art on their own. I was just talking a younger colleague through buying her first professional camera and it was such a delight hearing from someone who wants to know which lenses work best for which situations and how to actually get the shot you want in the camera by understanding the gear. Congrats on her wins!
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She is quiet, and timid, and dislikes crowds.... Unless she has a camera in her hands. With a camera she gets real pushy and flits around the front row. She'd elbow a bride to get a good picture of the cake.
 
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