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Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:10:44 GMT
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This reply is not targeted at Jake or any specific person.  It was just
convenient to reply to Jake's post.

Well, I thought I'd be done with this thread, but it looks like I'm going to
have to put out a fire before it explodes.  I really don't want to log on to
lugnet and find someone belittling me saying "I can't believe you said that,
you're a moron for thinking that cause I was there and you weren't."

For some reason people are taking this sentance:

"Quite honestly I can't see how any one person spends thousands of man hours on
putting a single Brickfest together"

To mean:

"Putting on Brickfest is easy and a monkey can do it."

If someone worked 8 hours a day, every day, it would take them 125 days to reach
1,000 hours.  Any organizer of a Brickfest-scale event that works that hard is
not utilizing their time wisely, especially since Brickfest is put on by a horde
of volunteers.

I'll believe it takes the head-organizer 100 hours to put on a brickfest.  I'll
even believe 200.

Has Christina spent a cumulative "thousands of hours" on the events in the
history of Brickfest?  I dunno.

But anyone expecting me to believe that any ONE person spends A THOUSAND hours
on ONE Brickfest is severely overestimating my gullability.

Some people seem to think they know every thing I've ever done, and seem to
think I have never been involved with organizing an event.  Some people claim to
know my every thought and detail in my head.  Sucks to be them.

--Anthony



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
 
(...) Anthony, I was the one who made that statement about thousands of hours, and if you look at it, I was saying thousands for Christina, hundreds for Joe. I was talking about cumulative hours for Christina, and feel confident that over all the (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
  Flattery Will Get You Nowhere (Was: BrickFest Registration Fees)
 
Folks, 'Sbeen a little while since I've been in here, and I must say, honestly I can't leave you kids alone for a second! :) I've decided to reply to Anthony's post, not because my words are necessarily directed at him, but because...well, I'm not (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
  Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
 
(...) Anthony, I appreciate your attempts to calculate the amount of hours an organizer might put into an event. Indeed it is difficult to fathom the number of hours a person is willing to contribute to something. Allow me a moment to quantify the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)

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  Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
 
(...) Anthony, all due respect when I say this - I think you're woefully underestimating the time required to put on such an event. I'm in no way speaking for Christina or the BF volunteers, but I know from my own experience of trying to organize (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)

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