Meet-Up Success!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Many kudos to anomie666 for spearheading a hugely successful meet-up! (Which may still be going on -- I just got home.)

I had a great time and it was nice to see many existing friends as well as put faces to LJ-names. Thanks also to The Burren, who generously supplied us with an assortment of deep-fried goodies as well as pie (ala mode, even).

And personal thanks to the people who insisted on buying me drinks, even if you never got around to taking advantage of me afterward.

Comments

[daft.livejournal.com]

Successful? Hardly.
Not NEARLY enough cowbell.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

My response when someone pointed out the host was, "Hey, where's his cowbell?!"

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It was great meeting all the folks, including a few I'd known only through icons. I was a late departure at around 10:30, so I'd say it was a massive success.

So when's the next one?!

[ifotismeni]

it was still going on by 11pm! i just left :D the crowd is considerably smaller though. serious, serious kudos to anomie. i can't wait for the next one!! davis_square..ians are awesome :D

[ifotismeni]

btw: does anyone have any photos?

[unferth.livejournal.com]

Indeed, great fun! I think the last of us left around 11.

Since this came up in conversation - the face-altering site I was discussing is the Perception Labs face transformer (http://www.perceptionlab.com/), and my icon is in the style of El Greco.

[belladonna.livejournal.com]

THERE REALLY WAS PIE? Aw crap.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It's true that more people will come if they think there’ll be punch and pie. And then there really was pie. I was as shocked as anyone.

[ifotismeni]

dudes i shouted it from the stage! :O

[ron_newman]

Yes there was free pie! Quite a surprise to me.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

I just got home and made a post here before seeing that you made one. It was cool meeting you!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Thank you, anomie666! This was just what no doctor ordered, and me and the boy had a great time. And yes, there was PIE!

Looking forward to the next one. As derspatchel said, let's do the slowest pub crawl ever. :-)

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I was already bummed about missing this...then I found out about the pie.

OH WOE IS ME

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Yay! The Burren was a great choice. Although I was disappointed that my inspiration for the evening, the person who said "I won't be wearing pants," was, in fact wearing pants. But the pie (and mozarella sticks!) was delicious.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

If people can wear their underoos while riding the train, I think people should do the same thing at a bar!

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

The Burren went above and beyond the call of duty. I'm not sure we can get the same thing next time and I hope this bar didn't set the bar too high ;)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Dude, you didn't even say hello to me!

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I did at the meetup! I even had my nametag on!

I don't look like my icon anymore, though.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oops, my bad! I was confusing your name with feralnerd, who nearly exploded with excitement over meeting ron_newman but failed to say hello to any of other 2-3 of us chatting with him at the time before running away.

[ron_newman]

Whereas I don't know who feralnerd is even now, because s/he didn't introduce him/herself to me as that.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

I've meet him before at 90s night but wasn't able to say hello in person. When I went to the bar to get another drink, he had disappeared. He is like a ninja, you never seeing him arriving or leaving.

[unferth.livejournal.com]

I can understand some confusion due to the "nerd" part, but I'm really more of the domestic variety.

And I don't have as cool a cap.

[gilana]

Thanks to everyone who organized it! Sorry I could only stop in for a few minutes, I hope we do it again.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Not just pie, pie a la mode! It's pretty clear there will be more of these meet-ups, though. :-)

[countlibras.livejournal.com]

awww, I'm sorry I missed it!

(alas, I was at a soup swap)

[mperrotti76.livejournal.com]

HAHAHah. Yeah that's rick. HAHAHHAHA. He has a little man crush on ron, I think.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

And with the dim lighting, WHO CAN TELL???

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I was taken by surprise myself. It wasn't until I wandered over to raid what was left of the appetizers that I saw pie.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Probably not, but it was an awesome launch!

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

I couldn't make it either but I'll definitely make the next one. Sounds like a blast. I'm sorry I could make it.

[spatch]

I would participate in a soup swap if squirtguns were involved.


TAKE THIS STOCK

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Woah, the Abe Lincoln guy from b0st0n was there and I didn't notice?

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

11?? Wow I thought it had definitely wound down by 9.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

When I saw the whole b0st0n crowd was going to be there, I was expecting this one guy at the end of a table repetitively ringing a cowbell while a chorus of buddies chanted "Mooninites!"

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Hmm which one were you..? I thought I'd gotten everybody's nick when I was there.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I was the one with the nametag that said "surrealestate". :)

I was wearing a brown fuzzy sweater and black slacks. And the red glasses, of course.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Hmm doesn't ring any bells. I did just "Z-M-G" in big caps on my nametag given the lighting there. There was one group of people in back that I didn't get to, that were sitting next to a tall guy with long hair. Or, unless you came in after about 9, i was gone.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

No, I was there early on and I did see you (saw the nametag), but you seemed to be hanging back a bit and I was saying hi to all sorts of friends so we never actually met.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It really did seem that way!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I enjoyed being able to put a face to the explosion. :)

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Well, I was planning to go as Zorro with a great big 'Z' on my shirt but ...