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

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

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