Happy Fourth of July!
My wife picked up a free flag today and hung it out on the porch. Do you put out a U.S. flag each 4th of July?

Happy Fourth of July!
My wife picked up a free flag today and hung it out on the porch. Do you put out a U.S. flag each 4th of July?


Please vote in the poll below if you are attending the Chicago Urko-Gryllicon the weekend of July 12-13. Rank your most preferred thing to do or see as "1st" and the rest in order after that.
Now that we have a semi-agenda semi-solidified, this will be most useful if we get to a point where a bunch of us are standing around saying, "What should we do now?" Then -- instead of a lot of indecisive hemming or hawing, or bickering -- I can pull out the poll results and say, "Well Activity X was the most popular according to your votes, followed by Activity Y, so let's do those."

Okay, so I asked this question on the Hey, Look at My Blog threads and, aside from David saying he didn't have a problem with doing it if folks wanted one and Jennifer agreeing it was a good idea, nobody spoke up. This is either because (1) nobody reads those threads (answering the age old philosophical question "If something is posted on the internet but nobody reads was it an even bigger waste of time?") (2) nobody cares, or (3) it was just too damned much trouble to answer the question.
Herewith, therefore, at least some sort of solution to Problem #3. What say ye?



Please rank these activities in the order of their appeal to you, from 1st ("I really really really want to do this one") to 10th ("I don't want to do as much as any of the others.")
This will simply help us gauge the relatively popularity of the various proposed activities.
Note: I am going to take "Fri. night get-together at restaurant suggested by VM" and "Saturday evening barbecue at linguist's" as givens. See also here for more info and proposed schedule: http://www.grylliade.org/node/2376#comment-75379



I am curious to see how this kind of poll works -- I might be able to use it in further planning advising re the Chi-Gryllicon.
Please be my guinea pigs!
Assumptions: Assume you will be cast away on a deserted island for 6 months. Rank the importance of the listed items that you might take with you.