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A Trip to Nerdvana

I am old.   I roamed the earth as a child with dinosaurs as companions.   Electricity was a latecomer.   I say this as a disclaimer for what is to follow.   I was a Nerd before Nerdism was cool.   I was a Nerd before it was mainstreamed and there were Nerd gatherings on a large scale.   That is why I am jealous. I recently attended LeakyCon in Portland Oregon with my teenage daughter (because none of her friends could afford to go and I was not going to let her go by herself).   For those of you out of   the know, LeakyCon is a gathering of fans of the Harry Potter Novels (Potterites).   They have quite kindly opened their doors to fans of Supernatural (Supernaturalists) and fans of the Doctor Who series (and its spin-offs) (Whovians).   Thus it has become a polyfandom of epic scale. I found myself, one Friday morning, surrounded by approximately 4,000 people much younger than I.   They were attired in fan t-shirts, Etonesque black robes with fetching accessories of approp