TAM 2012 Las Vegas

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Mayan themed, end of the world party in Vegas, July 12-25, 2012!! Someone start a grid for attendees and fringe events!


Tim Farley on Facebook:

Another date to save: The Amazing Meeting (presented by the James Randi Educational Foundation) will be July 12-15, 2012 at South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas. I plan to be there.​


@DJGrothe on Twitter:

@Data_Jack We are going to use #TAM2012, but that's because of our theme next year. See you there!​
 
I was hoping they would call it TAM Xtreme!!! (And, yes, those exclamation marks could be part of the name). :(

I suppose we can still have a round of Extreme Activities for fringe TAM events. Such as:

* Tandem Skydiving (jumping out of a real airplane, strapped to a pro skydiver) I did this prior to TAM8, with some folks. I could go again. This time, I will try to smile in front of the video camera more often.

* Indoor "Skydiving" (vertical wind tunnel) Did it last year. Not as "extreme" as the real thing, but still fun. Perhaps I can try to do flips and stuff this time.

* Firing weapons at the Gun Store: Did this some years ago. Hutch used to organize this. This time, I hope to actually hit the terrorist on my printed target, instead of the hostage.

* SkyJump (jumping off the side of the Stratosphere hotel.) I have not done this, yet.

* Other rides in Las Vegas considered somewhat extreme: Perhaps a roller coaster or two, such as the one in NYNY. Or, other rides on the top of the Stratosphere, maybe.

* Seeing an extremely bad show, such as Criss Angel: Believe. I have not seen that show, yet. But, I did see most of the better Cirque shows, already. The question is: Can we handle the magnificent awfulness of this one?!!!!

* A cute, little skeptic's party hosted by Margaret Downey. Just Kidding!!
 
I don't know how many people tend to go to both, but TAM X and Comic Con 2012 are happening at the same time.
 
TAM X is better: it takes up less valuable Twitter real estate (#TAMX vs. #TAM2012). :)
 
Phlebas said:
I don't know how many people tend to go to both, but TAM X and Comic Con 2012 are happening at the same time.
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Well, good. That gives me an excuse to return to Dragon*Con next year!!

My plans were to try out a few other, different conventions, including but not limited to Comic Con San Diego, instead of Dragon*Con. (And, originally, that was to include Burning Man, but I already have a conflicting event with that one.)

But, now, I guess I can move all of my convention experiments to 2013, (which will also probably include Burning Man).
 
Disraeli Ears said:
TAM X is better: it takes up less valuable Twitter real estate (#TAMX vs. #TAM2012). :)
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If that's you're concern, maybe we should move away from Roman Numerals and into the computer age. If we use hexadecimal we could go through TAM 15 with 4-character #tags, TAMA-TAMF. Not many people use base 36, so I don't suggest carrying it on through TAM36, i.e. TAMG-TAMZ. :)
 
I'm not sure what's more surprising: That they're not going with TAMXtreme!!! or that I understood everything Scott said.
 
SkepticScott said:
What symbols do you use for 37-63?
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You use the symbols 0-9, a-z, and A-Z. That gives 62 unique symbols, all made up of just numbers and letters. Then you pick two additional symbols for the last two values. The idea is to give 64 unique symbols that can safely be used in ASCII text messages without using any symbols that might be interpreted as markup. For example, if you want to encode binary data into an HTML or XML document, you would just need to avoid using any symbols that have special meaning in those encodings. So you would want to avoid things like < > = ' " \ & # ? and of course any sort of white-space. A common encoding scheme is to use + and / as the two extra symbols.
 
Stimpson J. Cat said:
You use the symbols 0-9, a-z, and A-Z. That gives 62 unique symbols, all made up of just numbers and letters. Then you pick two additional symbols for the last two values. The idea is to give 64 unique symbols that can safely be used in ASCII text messages without using any symbols that might be interpreted as markup. For example, if you want to encode binary data into an HTML or XML document, you would just need to avoid using any symbols that have special meaning in those encodings. So you would want to avoid things like < > = ' " \ & # ? and of course any sort of white-space. A common encoding scheme is to use + and / as the two extra symbols.
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So TAM 64 would be TAMZ+
 
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