Point to ponder

[ksmith]

The number of people I managed to *not* run into over the course of Denvention boggles my mind.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. If you spend a week in a convention the size of a small city, how many people would you expect to miss? 20,000?

A

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the attendence was. I thought I heard that it was somewhere between 4000-6000.

[(Anonymous)]

In a crowd of 5000, many of whom I knew, I'd be lucky to visit with 100 friends. Maybe you're one of those super-people who can manage more.

There was an interesting article that hypothesized that the human brain is hard wired to only be able to recognize about 50 people. Our modern world is really stressing that.

Adrianne

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I only managed to see a few folks. Part of the problem was the cold, which pretty much wiped out half the con. The other thing was that without programming, I didn't need to go to the Green Room, and I think I would've run into a lot of folks there.

[nlbarber]

Worse for me were the two events with about 25 people (the Bujold list curry party, and the Friends of Liad breakfast), where I *still* only managed to meet about 5-8 people. My introversion really shows at times. Kristine, you are also on my list of "people I wanted to meet at Denvention but didn't"--but I did have a great time, and will probably do another WorldCon sometime. Maybe next year!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I wasn't on programming, which made it difficult for folks to find me. But I'm glad you had a good time!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Worse are the people who've written to say that they saw me, but I looked too busy to interrupt. People I would like to have seen and chatted with...

but given that most of my memories of Denvention are of stress and feeling that I was always running late for something, they may have been right.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It sucks that you didn't get much rewind time.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

At least I have my non-work/non-writing vacation to look forward to. Reminded my boss today that for the first week in September I will be on a bike. No laptop and thus no matter what goes on, I will be unavailable :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Unavailability is the New Black.