Out of Pod Experience

why on earth would you want to buy an eve fanfest lanyard ? enquiring minds and stuff

Cripes! Good luck to you - I stopped working for one of my clients when they wanted me to wear a lanyard.

My response was something like "if you think that I need this around my neck to remind me who I am , then you must think that I am some sort of imbicile and I am taking this implication seriously".

Wearing a name tag with photo around one's neck as if we were a docile lump of meat is abhorrent. However, if this doesn't bother you then good luck but in the meantime, if anyone wishes to know who I am then all they need to do is ask and I reserve the right to reply how I choose.

Rofl.

We wear them because they give us access to particular parts of the building, being RFID chipped and all. The alternative would probably be RFID implants.

I prefer wearing a lanyard tbh.

I have a choice between a lanyard, clip, or badge reel. The badge reel ROCKS.

So, anyone going to this year's fanfest who doesn't particularly want to keep their lanyard, would you consider selling it? I don't want the fanfest pass at all, just the actual lanyard cable itself. (See link below)

http://eve.ninjaholic.com/img/pass.png

Well, you do need an ID tag when you work in a company so big you are given access to certain zones or restricted areas, specially those that come with keycards.

You never worked in a bank or an energy sector corp I assume. As much as I can understand your strange point of view demeaning people as sheep for using ID is kinda ... strange, is there some inherent evil in speaking your public record and government stored name to people? Just wondering not like nigeria scammers in the street are asking for your name all day ...

But thinking it better I must confess I give a diff name to people I meet in the streets. I'm usually Don Jose de Alameida and Conchito, landowner of a Pig Farm, or Carlos Alejandro Castañeda de Veracruz, seller of Rugs and rug cleaning products.

I also present myself here in Panama to random people I meet in my street travels as Josue Trinidad Hernandez Hiponcho, english teacher for hire.

Yes yes ... I think I understand what you mean. It's kinda liberating to go around pretending to be someone else, and when I go in the streets and people ask me what country I am from and they say X or Y I say "OMG yes, how did you know?" , amazing how people open up if you just follow the social game of being nice and proceed to tailor a fake life with the woes and sorrows of a poor venezuelan teacher, nicaraguan expat, ecuador tourist, mexican businessman or Colombian budding writer.

Accent imitation is a must, and must admit with no shame that I have mastered the Bogota accent, a soft panama one, the ciudad de mexico df one, about 6 types of venezuelan ones too (I'm possibly from there) and a mix and match of several south american ones from Argentina/Chile and Paraguay (beautiful accents by the way, best ones for me tho, are the Colombian ones)

In a country with so many tourists, you life is one of many and you can be anyone in the long tedious journey of working at odd hours in the street and dealing with people.

Fact is, I totally love to give my name ... all of them.

@Chribba I ACTUALLY considered that... :o I don't think my company are ready for that level of employment just yet :)

@Brujo Yea it's gotta be an original or I'm just lying to myself tbh.

THAT IS SO FKIN COOL.