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Offline cherpalla

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KeyCon Chicago plans?
« on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 20:16:08 »
Anyone? Bueller?
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 20:33:38 »
From here

Yep - KeyCon 3 Midwest is slated for Spring 2015 - will start planning in the next month or so!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 20:42:55 »
Oh hell yes, Midwest again? Lets hope!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 21:26:16 »
From here

Yep - KeyCon 3 Midwest is slated for Spring 2015 - will start planning in the next month or so!

oooOOOoooo See you all this spring  :p
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:18:28 »
Yea I am super pumped - maybe little i3oilermaker will stop by :)

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:19:59 »
Oh hell yes, Midwest again? Lets hope!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:26:04 »
Back to Chicago? I can dig it!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:34:54 »
Keycon USA so played out. 2015 Keycon international. Let's bring GHCSGO to dream hack

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« Reply #8 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:39:21 »
Back to Chicago? I can dig it!
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:44:10 »
Anyone? Bueller?

I don't think bueller will be going.
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 22:48:52 »
Keycon USA so played out. 2015 Keycon international. Let's bring GHCSGO to dream hack

Let's stop being scrubs, then take GHCSGO to dreamhack's BYOC and win! haha
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #12 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 23:12:48 »

Back to Chicago? I can dig it!
u taking me?

You get me pax lol swag?
I didn't get anyone anything **** that too many ***gots there
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 03 September 2014, 23:17:52 »


Back to Chicago? I can dig it!
u taking me?

You get me pax lol swag?
I didn't get anyone anything **** that too many ***gots there

Well then, no Chicago for you!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 09:36:06 »
Oh hell yes, Midwest again? Lets hope!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #15 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 11:07:37 »
If I'm not working and no other plans I'll definitely make the little jaunt over to Chicago for some keyboard nerdage.
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #16 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 16:51:24 »
If I'm still living here and drive, I can probably pick up as many as one tall and two short people in the lower ontario area.

Wow, just realized I live less than 5 hours from Montreal! I want to go to carnival this year.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #17 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 17:34:16 »
boiler and i are looking at a feb/march timeframe. venue will probably be at UIC again. next time i'm in town to visit boiler, his wife and the soon-to-be-new rugrat, we'll talk about possible other venues in case it looks like we're going to fill the one we used last time. otherwise, expect to find a place to stay close to campus.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #18 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:33:58 »
SOUNDS GREAT I AM IN
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #19 on: Thu, 04 September 2014, 18:48:10 »
I'll keep better track this time. The sooner a date is fleshed out, the better for me to schedule possibilities.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 09:32:09 »
Woo!  If nothing comes up that requires me to leave town I will have spare futon at my condo.  It's a short train ride away from the UIC campus :)

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« Reply #21 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 09:32:58 »
Dibs on geniekid's futon!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #22 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 09:55:59 »
Time to start cleaning ;D

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« Reply #23 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 09:59:28 »
Dibs on geniekid's clean dishes, and food also.

Also, I'll need you to put some towels in the dryer while I shower so they're nice and warm when I get out.

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« Reply #24 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:02:13 »
Dibs on geniekid's clean dishes, and food also.

Also, I'll need you to put some towels in the dryer while I shower so they're nice and warm when I get out.


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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #25 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:04:04 »
Dibs on geniekid's clean dishes, and food also.

Also, I'll need you to put some towels in the dryer while I shower so they're nice and warm when I get out.


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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #26 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:04:45 »
Wtf, I want to futon :(

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« Reply #27 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:06:58 »
Now, I must acquire a chauffeur to transport me to the obviously fine establishment where this convention will be held. Will the convention be held at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago? Or perhaps the Trump International would be better suited to cater to us?

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« Reply #28 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:09:18 »
Dibs on geniekid's clean dishes, and food also.

Also, I'll need you to put some towels in the dryer while I shower so they're nice and warm when I get out.


Don't forget to ask him to help you dry your back with the towel. If not you could miss a spot.

Oh, most definitely. I could not be caught dead drying myself like some measly peasant. It goes without saying that geniekid must dry me off.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #29 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:11:16 »
Or, as Sir Lil, of the Boosie family would suggest, "wipe me down".

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #30 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:26:27 »
Wtf, I want to futon :(

If you want you can crash on my living room couch, but only if you dry esoomenona after he showers.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #31 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 10:44:31 »
Well, Chicago is an easy trip for me, but I dunno if you guys know what Chicago is like in Feb.?  Average temp is something like 24F, which is -4C.  Which is a "nice" day in Chicago in the winter.  But I'm not complaining.  I always wanted to get one of those black toes from frostbite.  I wonder if the really shatter if you hit them with a hammer?
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #32 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 11:02:57 »
Haha - I agree, when Ming and I started discussing we said "Spring"  so I would think Apr/May could be more appropriate weather wise.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #33 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 11:45:05 »
Hm, I've never been somewhere truly cold before.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #34 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 14:00:09 »
I live in St Louis, so I'm "cool" with it, either way. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #35 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 14:06:05 »
I'll probably be taking a train in and out for this one, so if someone wouldn't mind giving me a ride from union station to wherever, I'd appreciate it!  :thumb:
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #36 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 14:15:57 »
Haha - I agree, when Ming and I started discussing we said "Spring"  so I would think Apr/May could be more appropriate weather wise.

If the venue is outdoors, I would say holding it during Apr/May would be...:cool:...key. 

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« Reply #37 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 14:31:08 »
Haha - I agree, when Ming and I started discussing we said "Spring"  so I would think Apr/May could be more appropriate weather wise.

If the venue is outdoors, I would say holding it during Apr/May would be...:cool:...key. 

outdoors? the great outdoors? hmm, like camping?  I loves me some camping.  I wonder if we can invite some handsome cowboys?

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #38 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 15:09:21 »
Winter winter winter!

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #39 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 15:24:03 »
I <3 winter.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #40 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 21:09:07 »
Hm, I've never been somewhere truly cold before.

and you still won't after this.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #41 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 21:12:51 »

Hm, I've never been somewhere truly cold before.

and you still won't after this.

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« Reply #42 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 21:52:07 »
oh god, i live where dorkvader lives now.

HELP ME

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« Reply #43 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 21:53:08 »
note: not because of the dorkvader, but because of the cold

LOOK, I CAN'T TOLERATE TEMPERATURES < 73f or > 78f OK!?!?  IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #44 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 21:59:08 »

oh god, i live where dorkvader lives now.

HELP ME

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #45 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 22:00:40 »
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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #46 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 22:04:59 »
Hm, I've never been somewhere truly cold before.

and you still won't after this.

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Re: KeyCon Chicago plans?
« Reply #47 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 22:07:35 »
note: not because of the dorkvader, but because of the cold

LOOK, I CAN'T TOLERATE TEMPERATURES < 73f or > 78f OK!?!?  IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?


Bah, come to Montreal in February, it's just like 73f, but convert it in Celsius and add a minus sign in front of it  :))  Almost the same uh uh
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« Reply #48 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 22:10:04 »
I actually ride my bike in the winter time more than I do in the summer.  I live about 6 hours due west of Chicago.  Yes I am crazy.
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« Reply #49 on: Mon, 08 September 2014, 22:13:30 »
note: not because of the dorkvader, but because of the cold

LOOK, I CAN'T TOLERATE TEMPERATURES < 73f or > 78f OK!?!?  IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?


Bah, come to Montreal in February, it's just like 73f, but convert it in Celsius and add a minus sign in front of it  :))  Almost the same uh uh


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