Souvenirs from Chengdu
Oct. 31st, 2023 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeThe Chengdu committee and individual staff members kept giving me gifts — so many of them that I couldn't figure out how to get them all home! Fortunately, Donald Eastlake had extra space in his luggage, so he offered to take the larger boxes home with him and mail them to me. They arrived today.
Kormo was the robotic panda that was Chengdu 2023's mascot. A Kormo statue is inside the box at center. The black box at left contains a framed panda silk-screen and the pin shaped like the convention site (the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, which we all took to calling "the venue") that I wore during the convention and set in front of the box for this photo. At right is the "Member Guidebook," which came shrink-wrapped and that I've not yet had the heart to open, plus a smaller Chengdu logo pin that I wore on my badge at the convention.
Here's what the black box looked like inside. I put the pin back in its place in the box.
When you take the lid off of Kormo's box, it looks like this initially.
There's an embossed plastic card inside. Maybe it's a certificate of authenticity.
That's Kormo on the left. At upper center, according to the box, the "Stellar Courier" at upper center. The "Pillars of Creation" are at right. Wrapped at lower center is a USB cable that connects to Kormo's base.
I plugged in the USB cable to Kormo's base, and the red LED lit up. I'm unsure what else is supposed to happen. There are no switches that I can find, and the two separate items do not appear to connect to anything. Possibly it needs to charge before it can, as it says on the box make "The entire universe flicker for you."
Meanwhile, if I did have a cold yesterday, it passed quickly. I'm still tired, but I'm pretty sure it will take a while to get over the fatigue from Chengdu. Indeed, I may count myself lucky to be over that by the time we leave for Loscon.
Kormo was the robotic panda that was Chengdu 2023's mascot. A Kormo statue is inside the box at center. The black box at left contains a framed panda silk-screen and the pin shaped like the convention site (the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, which we all took to calling "the venue") that I wore during the convention and set in front of the box for this photo. At right is the "Member Guidebook," which came shrink-wrapped and that I've not yet had the heart to open, plus a smaller Chengdu logo pin that I wore on my badge at the convention.
Here's what the black box looked like inside. I put the pin back in its place in the box.
When you take the lid off of Kormo's box, it looks like this initially.
There's an embossed plastic card inside. Maybe it's a certificate of authenticity.
That's Kormo on the left. At upper center, according to the box, the "Stellar Courier" at upper center. The "Pillars of Creation" are at right. Wrapped at lower center is a USB cable that connects to Kormo's base.
I plugged in the USB cable to Kormo's base, and the red LED lit up. I'm unsure what else is supposed to happen. There are no switches that I can find, and the two separate items do not appear to connect to anything. Possibly it needs to charge before it can, as it says on the box make "The entire universe flicker for you."
Meanwhile, if I did have a cold yesterday, it passed quickly. I'm still tired, but I'm pretty sure it will take a while to get over the fatigue from Chengdu. Indeed, I may count myself lucky to be over that by the time we leave for Loscon.
