More Dragon*Con stuff

(1) Thank you for admiring my girl in all her tiny Kayleeesque glory! She's v excited.

(2) OK, so we are leaving DC Thursday evening to start driving down to Atlanta. I expect the drive out of town to CRAWL and am trying to minimize that, obv. We can either head due south down I-95 and cut over toward Atlanta later, or we can take 66 out to 81 and drive down the valley. All maps seem to indicate that they're pretty much equivalent in terms of time, but I'm THINKING that 66-to-81 will probably be easier traffic-wise, you think? The last time I was headed south on I-95 there was stop and go traffic almost all the way to Richmond, which is absurd.

DC people, do any of you have any sense which of these is the smarter route out of town? (Do not tell me to just stay home. I know, believe me, I know.)

(3) The pocket program is terrifying. I have cider in the fridge and tonight I will get a little bit loose and maybe then I'll have the guts to look at it again. Damn, there's just a lot of there there!

(4) OK, who's going, again?
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Thoughts on SGA's cancellation and media buying strategies and advertising...stuff.

Tonight jlh and I got into a conversation about it and the whole "take out an ad" strategy to let the money people and the advertisers know who they were losing and, as usual, she had some dead informative things to say. I always learn new stuff from her about media and advertising, b/c this was her world for so long and I find so much of it counter-intuitive until she breaks it down for me. Under the cut is a chat transcript that's worth reading if you can't figure out how we became Stargate Geezers.

( Clio explains it all )

Discuss. Alternatively, rend garments. It all makes sense laid out like that, doesn't it? And it really pisses me off.

At some point I'll give you my GenX whining on this and how frustrating it is to be an active, interested consumer of media who finds that nothing is being produced or marketed for you because you're a difficult market AND a small one. Or, hell, enough of you are GenX counterparts - you can write the whining yourself.

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While I'm c&p-ing chat transcripts, here's what I said to Clio about my current thinking on the cancellation.

( As usual, the feelings are mixed )