Re: Bay Area meetup

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For me, a Saturday afternoon meetup would also be acceptable. Say, 2 p.m.? Wunderground says of future Berkeley weather:

Thursday Night through Saturday Night Mostly clear. Lows near 50. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.

Sounds like good beer-under-the-sun weather to me.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 2:50 PM
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What if you toured a dairy and learned how milk is produced and prepared for delivery? Or you could get together And make a series of window displays on home safety!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:04 PM
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Oh, can I make the "don't do it this way" displays? At last a use for all my rusty metal!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:06 PM
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It's so lame that you aren't going to a gay sex club. Mineshaft indeed.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:08 PM
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Well, I did watch a pig get butchered last Saturday afternoon. A couple Saturdays before that I toured a farm where cattle were being fed grass.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:09 PM
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I wish I had watched a pig get butchered last Saturday afternoon.

I did make a gallon of extremely gelatinous pork stock yesterday, but it's not the same.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:11 PM
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You could go to a sewage treatment plant.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:14 PM
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4 to 3. Sounds like nosflow's bringing rusty trombones for everyone to share; no need for a dedicated club.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:18 PM
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I approve of your switch from xkcd to Dinosaur Comics, teo.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:19 PM
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Brass doesn't rust, Stanley. It does oxidize, but rust is iron oxide.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:20 PM
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I could now do Saturday afternoon or evening, but not Sunday.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:28 PM
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You could go to a sewage treatment plant


Posted by: k-sky | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:28 PM
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Saturday afternoon sounds like it, then. Now you all need to pick a bar.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:59 PM
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Jupiter.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 3:59 PM
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10: Well how then, I ask you, can a tin roof be rusted?


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:20 PM
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A tin roof cannot be rusted.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:23 PM
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Because tin roofs are actually coated steel.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:25 PM
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Does stock photography ever lie?


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:25 PM
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I approve of your switch from xkcd to Dinosaur Comics, teo.

I figured you would.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:29 PM
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Of course a tin roof can be rusted. Were that not the case, Mr. Nosflow would be accusing the B-52s of being a no-good, dead-beat cadre of liars. And surely he knows they are anything but.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:38 PM
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Maybe he's made just such an observation to friends or acquaintances, but never made the equivalent of a public statement. And so here we are, waiting, watching, and wondering just what his real views on the matter could be.


Posted by: persistently visible | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:45 PM
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Failed Bay Area meetup planning is the sine qua non of Unfogged.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 4:49 PM
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Thanks for the assistance, Jetpack.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 6:10 PM
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One more vote for drinking in the afternoon on Saturday.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 6:13 PM
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23: I'm nothing if not helpful.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 6:16 PM
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I apparently still have about 20 minutes left on this laptop battery, so I can say I should be able to make it on Saturday. Hopefully I'll have my power cord by then and be able to check in without having to resort to, gasp, a public library or something like that for the internet.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-10-10 9:50 PM
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You heard the accent!


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 8:42 AM
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Saturday afternoon makes swinging by much more likely for me.


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 12:00 PM
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I'll be there. After lunch sounds good. Unless I'm carpooling with someone, Captain Awesome can drop me off (on the motorcycle, so I will be wearing my nifty "90's girl band" boots) and pick me up, so you might even get to meet him.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 1:22 PM
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Doesn't Josh ride a motorcycle, too? Will he be there? I predict a knife fight (especially since the Brits just let us down on this account).


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 1:27 PM
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OK, feeling like critical mass. 2PM at Jupiter?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 1:30 PM
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I can bring a folding knife.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 1:44 PM
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I updated the post, not that anyone'll see it.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 1:46 PM
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I saw it, neb, and your commitment to the knife fight heartens.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 2:28 PM
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Will he be there?

Wow, people really *don't* read my comments.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 3:08 PM
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Anyway since Josh isn't around, I guess we'll never know.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 3:23 PM
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Too bad, he'd probably vote for drinking in the afternoon on Saturday.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-11-10 3:42 PM
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I'll be there. And square.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-13-10 7:35 PM
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Just boarded the N-Judah, so I should be there around 2:15.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 2:11 PM
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Made it to Civic Center! This is so exciting. Richmond train in 6 minutes.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 2:29 PM
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BL and I are here and have claimed one of the picnic tables in the garden.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 2:38 PM
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Holy crap! There's a meetup! RIGHT NOW! AND THERE"S LIVEBLOGGING!

MIGHT I PLOTZ?


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:15 PM
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THERE"S

It would appear that Tweety, in his excitement, held down the shift key they whole way through, rather than applying the more staid approach of using CAPS LOCK. This fact pleases me and irrationally so.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:30 PM
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So he meant to say:
RIGHT NOW1 AND THERE'S LIVEBLOGGING1

MIGHT I PLOTZ/


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:32 PM
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I meant the whole way through that particular word. Yeah. That's it.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:37 PM
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$%: Actually< my comment doesn"t really makes sense: it works your way quite well>


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:42 PM
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Update: fake accent, Otto, Minivet, and nosflow have arrived.

Also, nosflow just grabbed Belle's ass.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 3:47 PM
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That's the stuff right there! Now you grab nosflow's ass by way of revenge.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:15 PM
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43: I'm almost always too excited to use caps lock.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:16 PM
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I thought I couldn't come, and then I was late, and then I was too shy to shout "Who wants to sex Mutombo?" But if you all are *still* there, I'll walk back.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:27 PM
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Meetups should last late into the wee hours and contain karaoke singing. THOSE ARE THE RULES.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:31 PM
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We're still here!


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:32 PM
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Clew, just look for the folks doing body shots off of Nosflow.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:33 PM
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I'm in a blue sweater. Wolfson looks like Wolfson.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:34 PM
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Coming! I am wearing a blue dress and a straw hat, and probably peered at you worriedly half an hour ago.


Posted by: clew | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:34 PM
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I should be making a brief appearance in a bit. Meant to be there earlier, but I suck.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:36 PM
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Wolfson is critiquing forehead sizes. Bastard.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:45 PM
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Photos! Video! Don't you people know the first thing about liveblogging?


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 4:52 PM
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essear and clew are here.


Posted by: Otto von Bisquick | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 5:10 PM
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nosflow is begging for pizza again.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 5:21 PM
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ATTENTION TEO: nosflow just used an XKCD reference to illustrate a point in conversation.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 5:32 PM
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Victory is mine!


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 5:42 PM
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JUPITER ATE THE MEETUP PEOPLE.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 8:38 PM
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At no point did I beg for pizza.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 8:45 PM
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But the butt grabbing? No denial.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:00 PM
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Oh, I totally grabbed her ass.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:09 PM
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I'd do it again, too. No regrets.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:10 PM
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64: Did you make entreaties for pizza?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:16 PM
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Heavy liveblogging. Very satisfying.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:20 PM
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I made broad hints in the direction of pizza.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:26 PM
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Did the pizza respond?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:31 PM
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It made no objection to manual manipulation, so I proceeded to oral.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:33 PM
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We're on track for some anal action in a while.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:34 PM
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Liveblogging!

</Sifu Tweety>


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:36 PM
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Liveblogging! s/b Deep Dish! Well, actually not that deep.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:39 PM
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ObPennyArcade


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:40 PM
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Is neb dropping some kids off at the pool?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 9:56 PM
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I had a good idea for an xkcd recently: using the "your mom" joke in reverse!

Crappy example:

A: "Oh, wow, this beverage is totally slamming."
B: "Yeah, just like you were slamming my mom last night!"


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:02 PM
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A: "So, how *did* you get the drummer off your front porch?"
B: "I sent my mom out."


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:07 PM
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79: See? Hilarious.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:12 PM
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There were no links to dinosaur comments, but dinosaurs did come up.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:37 PM
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comments s/b comics

(as in you should all draw your comments and post the images in comments (if images were enabled))


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:37 PM
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The Brad Neely Washington for Minivet and others who may not have seen it.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:43 PM
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This reminds me that I finally watched a bunch of drunk histories a while after the thread dedicated thereto and they were, indeed, mostly great.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:46 PM
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81: So not like this?


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:47 PM
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This is a good dinosaur blog.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 10:56 PM
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And if anyone's interested, the first Andronico's does indeed appear to be the Solano location, and the Berkeley Co-op closed its last location in 1988.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 11:00 PM
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Oh, and here's the House in the Middle, in which good domestic habits fight THERMONUCLEAR WAR.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05-15-10 11:34 PM
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