So, I have two badges but don’t know who they belong to (presumably either Amanda or me, but which?) and two stickers with our name that do fuck all.
I picked up my badge, and I picked up Amanda’s badge. The badges do not have the bearer’s name on them anywhere. While each has a unique id number, it has no tie to the badge number tabletop.events says we bought, so there is no way to tell whose badge is whose.
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your
When I picked them up, they printed out handy dandy stickers with our names and pronouns on them, which the GAMA guy behind the counter immediately told me not to stick on the badge, because it would cover codes they will need to scan to allow entry into gaming and exhibit halls.
Presumably Origins can tell, but they’ve provided no way for us to tell.
So…. Origins 2026 badges. Let’s go with “interesting.”
Not so much “useful.”
But definitely “interesting.”
“This thing costs us money every minute so anytime it isn’t in use it’s wasting our money so we should find ways to make sure it’s in use as much as possible” is how to think about compute nodes or dump trucks, not people
Your university president has a contract. Why shouldn’t your faculty? Staff? Tech service? Grad students?
