Re: Independence Day

Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

Contrast this with my leaving Buffalo NY today much earlier than
I would like,

I didn't know you were here.  Why didn't you say hello?

I did!  I shared several elevators with you and always said hello!

This has been a running gag in real life over multiple cons.
Somehow Keith has a blind spot for your face, I guess.  Early in the
con I ran into Keith and you a few minutes apart and asked if he'd
recognized you, and you said he didn't.

Scott may have said hello to me any number of times, as lots of people
do, but if so it was without introducing himself by name.  With my
poor eyesight, I can't usually read name badges without getting
awkwardly close.  And half the time the name badges are turned
backwards anyway.

So I still don't associate any particlular face with that name.
I never have.

But I'm skeptical that he "shared several elevators with" me.  I
seldom used elevators at NASFiC or any other con with usable stairs.
I was on an elevator only when I was accompanying someone else or was
moving something heavy as part of MIMO.  Maybe he mistook someone else
for me?  People keep claiming they saw me at cons I didn't attend.

Being moderately face-blind myself, I'm not going to laugh at the
running gag.

I don't think I'm at all face-blind.  When watching movies and TV
shows I recognize most of the actors.  Which isn't to say that
whenever a face looks familiar I know what name goes with it, or vice
versa.  And some names and some faces I know only in broad categories
such as fans, radio hams, WSFA members, PRSFS members, or movie stars.

(When I was WSFA's secretary, I knew all the WSFA members by name and
by sight, but that was 20 years ago.  Most of the then-members have
since dropped out.)

At Penn Station on the way home I recognized a fan as a fan, but
didn't know his name or whether he had been at the NASFiC.

At the con when registering, I wasn't asked for ID (which I was
pleased by).  I asked her why not.  She said she recognized me.
I didn't recognize her.
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