Double Exposure Welcomes Four New Senior Staff Members

[Salvius]

Folks,

I am pleased to announce that four people have joined the Double Exposure Senior Staff, effective immediately. They will be wearing bright green badges at DEXCON 11.

Brian Gilman - Brian came to us during our merger with Complete Strategy, and has been a major force at the Registration Desk, laminating people left and right, and sometimes their badges. He is the "goto" guy, when we need something picked up or dropped off, and when we need an old basic instruction. His hard work and dedication at just about every convention we've run for the last few years is now being recognized as a ploy to be first in line for Pixy Stix at DEXCON 11.

Paul Birnbaum - What can we say about Paul Birnbaum? Actually, nothing. Let's move on.

Molly Mandlin - Over the last 5 years, we've watched Molly grow and move into more and more responsibility in Double Exposure. She is one of our most outspoken advocates, and her drive and enthusiasm has always been apparent, especially when she is at other people's conventions. In fact, she's our secret weapon against the competition. We send her to another convention, and she begins expending energy so rapidly that the entire convention implodes from within and all of its attendees are left with one message: "Come to DEXCON". Molly will continue in her role as Hospitality Personality, where she will be found, er, hospitalizing.

Ted Mantuano - Ted has been with us for many years, in various roles, and recently he has found his calling as the de facto chief of the LAN in Electronic Gaming. Dering Sprague, the Director of Electronic Gaming, has given him more and more responsibility and he has come through in grand fashion, setting up our 8 computers time and again by spending 1400 hours trying to get them to run Unreal Tournament in Swahili. Ted will of course remain perched at his table in Electronic Gaming, where he can be found whispering to whoever is sitting next to him, "do they HAVE to touch my keyboards and mice?"

All right, all right, Paul. Some of you may know that Paul and I go way back, to the dark ages of fandom, when men were real men, and women wore very skimpy convention clothes. Mr. Birnbaum was one of the original Senior Staff members at DEXCON 1 in 1992, and had taken a bit of a sabbatical for a decade (the truth is, he moved to Utah and converted to Mormonism because he thought it would help his bridge game). Anyway, during the last couple of years, he has been taking increasingly more responsibility for the logistics and boardgaming areas, and he will be starting in the Senior Staff at a newly created position, Tournament Director, where he will be responsible for overseeing all of the DENCC and other multi-part tournaments at the conventions.

So there you have it. If you or anyone you know would like to become a Senior Staff member in the future, please send me a private message and I will recommend some excellent psychiatrists in the tri-state area.

>>>Vinny

[Sinkuu]

my sympathies... er, condolences.... wait... CONGRATULATIONS! ( yeah, that's it)

to the new suckers.... er, honored saps, er, souls... who take on this great responsibility. (probably cuz no one else wanted it.)





in all seriousness, congrats to the new members of senior staff.

[ParticularlyEvil]

There but for the grace of god...

Um, I mean... Congratulations!


Frank

[Mack Ravensline]

Congrats, all are worthy.

[Bulova]

[looking around...]

Hell is not freezing over, the world hasn't come to an end, it's not raining cows, pigs aren't flying. Oh wait, I understand that new developments in gene-splicing have produced a prototype winged-pig. THAT explains it.

Thank you for your kind expressions of condolence, or whatever...

As for me, I'll keep on doing whatever it is that I was so, I hope that'll be good enough.

Any of you who are wont have my permission to hoist a few shots of 24-year-old Single Malt (or whatever your preference may be) in commemoration! And don't slouch!

So, when's the celebratory Poker Game?

Paul

PS: I never took the final vows, so I never officially became a Mormon. My bridge *is* better, thank you. But the two are unrelated.

[wcshoe]

"With a big enough launcher, ANY animal can fly"

-My high school physics teacher, responding to a students comment on whether or not they would pass their final exam.

[Knighthawk]

congrats to all !!

[BusterC]

Welcome, welcome, one and all.

lol, we need all the help we can get.....well ... at least I do...heh heh heh.

C U L8R !

[tantras]

Holy cow!

Four people flourescing at once?!?  Does that mean the convention has hit critical mass?  If nothing else, I guess the convention will be run with green energy... <groan><comment about horrible pun></groan>

Congrats to everyone for earning yet another sleepless night at the cons and perhaps a few before! 8^D  If it helps to keep you up, try playing Age of Mythology with Molly. 8^)

     - Randy, Asian queen of de Nile... 8^)

[Bulova]

Four people fluorescing at once?!? ... I guess the convention will be run with green energy...

     - Randy, Asian queen of de Nile... 8^)

In brightest day,
In blackest night,
No Gamers shall escape my sight!

Let those who Play with all their might
Acknowledge my Power :
the Fluorescent Green badge! Right?

[Sinkuu]

 /waits for Tiny to react

/gets popcorn for show

[Bulova]

/waits for Tiny to react

/gets popcorn for show

Yeah. Me, too.

[Barbara]

The Mighty Tiny...ahem...ok his assistant of all knowledge will point this....'item'..out to him.

Tiny is studying for his 2nd Physics test...he got 97 on the first one!!!

Barbara
research assistant

[Bulova]

Tiny is studying for his 2nd Physics test...he got 97 on the first one!!!

Barbara
research assistant

YAAAAAY!!!  WOOT! WOOT![/color]