xkcd meetup near Davis - Sunday 9/23

[ron_newman]

A few months ago, a webcomic called xkcd published this strip in which a character's dream includes a very specific set of location and time coordinates. The spatial coordinates happen to resolve to the tiny Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park on Cedar St in North Cambridge, a few blocks from Davis Square. The time is 2:38 pm on September 23, 2007 -- this coming Sunday.

Some of the widely dispersed fans of this comic strip took this as a cue to organize a meetup at that location and time, which resulted in the creation of first the xkcd_meetup_07 LJ community and then this bulletin board. Supposedly there are also MySpace and Facebook pages for this event, but I don't know anything about them. People are planning to converge on this park from all over the USA and beyond.

When the assembled multitude discover that they don't fit in the park, many of them will probably head off to nearby Danehy Park, while others find their way to Davis Square. Should be an interesting day....

Comments

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Damn.

The artist behind xkcd is a friend of mine, from before the days when he was an uber-cool web comic artist. He's a cool guy, but a fairly normal guy.

I don't understand this level of excitement. It's awesome, but it's like someone is pulling a big joke - if Ron Newman is posting about what one of my friends draws online, Something has gone seriously wacky in the universe.

[ron_newman]

I had never heard of this comic, or this event, until a friend of mine posted to her private LJ that it was going to happen across the street from her house. For her own privacy, I won't say more.

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

Seriously! Sarah and Steve both told me about it, it's so weird!

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

He hadn't planned on anything like this to happen, as far as he told me. So, well, I hope things don't get out of hand.

There's people *flying in* for it, I can't quite believe how big it's gotten.

(Hi! It's Serena!)

[ron_newman]

Someone said s/he was coming from Melbourne and asked if anyone was coming from further away. I pointed out that only Perth could be further away from Boston.