Why You didn't Come to the Conference

chiller · Jun 1, 2006

kjsphoto said:
To expensive. With the price of gas going through the roof, increased airline ticket price and the cost of hotels I would be looking at a few thousand. Plus rental car, food, etc

Maybe if it was closer but being east coast then up in Canada just way to expensive.

I considered it also but when I did he math from Adelaide to Canada I couldn't justify it. Now IF you want to hold it in New Zealand I will have no problems flying from Australia.

bd3 · Jun 7, 2006

$$$$$$

$$$$$$

Bill

B&Wenthusiast · Jun 9, 2006

Why didn't come to the Conference?

bd3 said:
$$$$$$

Bill

Also money for me; child in college & going to Ireland for summer school; friend moved in with baby who needed lots of help. Would like to make it some time!

benjiboy · Jun 9, 2006

I would have loved to come to the conference, and hope to be able to come someday, maybe next year.

copake_ham · Jul 5, 2006

No TIME!

Some couldn't make it because of the $$$$.

I live in NY so T.O. is m/l nearby and the $ would have been "reasonable". But I couldn't spare the TIME.

Seems to often be the case in life: If you have the time, you don't have the money. If you have the money, you don't have the time!

AeisLugh · Jul 5, 2006

Money and Time were my biggest problems. I'd just tapped myself out to go see a friend in Iowa the weekend before the conference, which also meant I couldn't take any added time off work either.

Gotta set priorities, I only see this friend 2-3 times a year.

Hopefully next year the timing will be better.

roteague · Jul 6, 2006

Curt, give it a rest. This is getting really old. You didn't go, ok, fine, but I'm tired of hearing about it - I spent a lot of money, 4 days off from work and 10 hours on an airplane to go, and I don't appreciate your answers.

jolimon · Jul 15, 2006

to monsieur callow.....i had paid my airfare, paid my fees, set up to stay with family and .....got the flu! Rats, not just the $$$ but i really wanted to meet up with all these great people. I live in the canadian rockies and, while there are some great friends and photogs locally, its always helpful to meet new ideas, new views and new people.....i hope you all had a great time and maybe next year....? missed out on free accommodation though. but i did get to visit two weeks later.
and if you liked toronto, go back between nov 18th, 2006 and feb 2007 to see the ansel adams show at the art gallery of ontario in toronto. thanks for all the work by the organizers of the apug show...richard

WarEaglemtn · Sep 20, 2006

No passport. When we went to the border crossing earlier we were informed we couldn't cross without a passport and did not have the time nor the inclination to fuss with it.

Jim Noel · Sep 22, 2006

Several reasons:
1. I am still teaching in May
2. Too far from San DIego
3. Expense of getting there, plus time off, plus lodging, etc., just too much.

It sounds like this was an unusually good facility of whichthere probably aren't a lot around the world. Not many places have several darkrooms capable of handling 20 people at a time.

Perhaps someday when I really retire I will make it.
Jim

TheFlyingCamera · Sep 22, 2006

Ole said:
If someone should wonder whether or not they're nerds, here's the test: http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php?im

I won't tell you my score...

I got:

24% scored higher (more nerdy), and
76% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.

What I'm most curious about is what I got "wrong" to not score higher. Other than some of the obvious ones about not having a certain kind of social life. Its pretty easy to skew the results if you know how to read the answers.

DeanC · Sep 22, 2006

TheFlyingCamera said:
I got:

24% scored higher (more nerdy), and
76% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.

8% scored higher (more nerdy), and
92% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Supreme Nerd. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!.

naturephoto1 · Sep 22, 2006

Scott,

You scored better than I did.

I only got:

39% scored higher (more nerdy), and
61% scored lower (less nerdy).

That means that I am:

Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds.

Rich

jovo · Sep 22, 2006

69% are more nerdy and 31% are less so than I apparantly am....which is interesting since, as a serious classical musician, I'm almost 100% out of the loop of pupular culturally driven hipness. But this was a test designed by science and technology types who aren't actually nerdy, because they don't even register on any list of functioning social primates.

Well.........actually I'm kinda bummed since I didn't achieve even wannabe status...so........does pur spelling count? :confused:

copake_ham · Sep 22, 2006

28/72

Surprised. Figured being a history major and a lawyer would have "killed" me on the nerdy scale. Must be the answer for "canned air" that got me into the high nerd category!

photo8x10 · Sep 26, 2006

MY main problem, is the distance......
I hope to come the next year but from Italy, it's a bit difficult.
First I should plain my trip with my business, and sincerly it's laso a bit expensive....but I hope for the next year

Best

Stefano Germi
Italy

THardy · Dec 23, 2006

Seems that knowing even a little science makes one "nerdy".

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