I avoid forums because I tend to agree with their complaints about the show. Sadly, though, there's naught we can do about it but...sit around and bitch. That's cathartic for about 2 days and then it just stuck me in a, "I hate everything they're doing" frame of mind and killed any enjoyment at all I could get. So...I stopped. And while Stargate still has the same problems, I don't hate being a fan so much.

I know Creation faced some difficulties when they wildly expanded the Stargate con offerings but sometimes I wonder how they've survived as long as they have and not gotten savvier about the business.

I mean half the people that worked as secondary characters in SG work on BSG, so they'd be a good draw.
Absolutely. I hope they're smart enough to play that angle, too. I'm surprised that they make no attempt to better balance the con between SG-1 and Atlantis but I'm very happy for it.

well, you've motivated me to look at more than my current Point and Shoot camera
It's a virus! The camera-lust virus! Seriously, though, we took our digital point and shoot to an air show over the weekend because it was likely to rain on us. This was no slouch of a camera (Sony 5 megapixel CyberShot back when that was a big deal) but the difference was shocking! I've gotten spoiled by a much better field of vision. We finally gave up photographing planes because by the time you got back far enough to fit the plane into the photo, the pic was mostly tarmac and sky. :( I was quite bummed about that because they had a Stealth Fighter there and I *wanted* pics.