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Pre Pax Dinner [not a headcount]
Bambooza
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I heard it mentioned in another thread and figured it was time it was given its due and so figured I would ask. Anyone making any plans this year on the pre PAX dinner?
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
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We'll probably solidify these things in May or June, and she'll open some official information thread to do the whole headcount estimate like last year.
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This is not an official information or headcount thread.
Anything posted here will not count toward any estimate and could throw us off if you don't remember to post intentions in the real thread when it comes.
If you want to talk about the pre-PAX dinner that's totally fine, even announce your intention to come, but just don't forget to post that again in the official thread once we've made solid arrangements.
Thanks d00dz.
Otherwise, I say just order everything and ask for the bill with the food. Then you can take your food with you on your merry journey to everybody's table.
Not quite what I meant, mingling is obvious if you want to meet people, I meant they wouldn't let us downstairs due to fire code regulations and seating the max number of people downstairs at the time, even if it was just to wander in for a bit.
Sort of like a PAX version of speed dating.
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If we were to do that, we'd have to charge people at the door, and that would require a considerable risk of an invested deposit, assuming we could even raise the money. Probably the only way I'd feel comfortable is we pre-registered everybody and had the money up front for a deposit, but even then I think it's not the sort of attitude we want the event to have. Right now you can come and order as much or as little, or even nothing, as you want. I don't want to close the doors to people.
(I will admit though, if the popularity of the dinner grows too much, we might have to go to such a system, or even approach PA Inc. about rolling into the umbrella of the main event somehow. We had 150+ people last year, and knowing PAX's growth patterns, it could quickly grow beyond our capacity to organize. If I were you, I'd worry about Sealab in the same way.)
That text is quite big. I think we should quote it at every opportunity.
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xxhennersxx: There's really not much to it, it's just a dinner to meet people the night before PAX opens. It's mostly forumers, supertrippers and their friends because we don't talk about it anywhere else (it's too big already). There's no structure or agenda, you order what you want, sit whereever. It's the people that make it fun, especially the supertripper stories.
Makes sense, and sounds good. I was just tossing it out there as an idea.
Ya know, I remember at the last dinner, we were actually discussing the NEXT supertrip and PAX even before that one had started. And then we got to pick the brains of some of the enforcers about how everything is set-up and where we should go when the doors open. But I honestly never knew anybody at the table that I sat down at... and I loved it.
And I think I regaled the ironic tale of "lucky sue" to some people.
We need a buffet style or some mongolian grill action.. mmmm fresh pinapple!
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A shame really, as we could easily occupy the whole place and eat up all the food (I think it seats 40-50, and you can go back for seconds for free).
There is a Denny's-esque restaurant on Denny and 7th or so, maybe 12-14 blocks from the CC, called The Hurricane. They have live music on weekends and are open quite late. Between the dance floor and the normal restaurant I'd wager it could seat about 80 and house about 50 more (I'm sure fire codes would have a max capacity of maybe 150, 175 tops), but the place is owned by some really awesome people, who may let us rent the place out entirely. Greasy spoons with reputable food and cool owners are fairly rare, and this is a place that only drunkard locals would know about (This is me pleading the fifth, officially).
Depending on the total head count of attendees, The Hurricane could just be too small, but I feel it would be worth exploring to find out for sure.
People have mentioned Mongoloid Barbeques and stuff, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the downtown Seattle area is a bit too metropolitan to have very many places in the greater downtown area that would accomodate a crowd of this magnitude. I know many phenominal restaurants in the area, but they're all too fancy-pants.
(oh, and I'm sure where 24 hr. diners are concerned, Beth's Cafe > The Hurricane without a doubt.)
As much as I'd love to see this thread deteriorate into a flame war about which obscure local 24 hr. diner is superior, I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree to disagree. (And after I had gone out of my way being so reasonable already, giving private insights into my fiance's mind. Perhaps she's right about the sort of people that go to The Hurricane...)
Beth's is quite far away from anywhere resembling downtown, anyways, so I'm afraid we both struck out =(
[edit] not to mention it's way too small and compartmentalized.