Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person
Thread writes "This group is getting together slashdot readers all over the world. Check out slashdot.meetup.com to meet up with Slashdot readers in your town." The meetup.com site is pretty much brand new, and it's a fun idea. We thought this was kind of a cool idea and something a bunch of people have asked for in email and in past stories so we thought "let's see what happens."
Can I show up as an AC?
I have been pwned because my
Now I can have hoards of slashdot readers slashdot my front door.
In college, really poor, need a flatscreen.
What do we say when we meet?
"FIRST POST!"
Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.
If so, time to start posting anonymously.
--saint
There are others like me in my town? I can get 300k downloads off my cablemodem in the evening since there are so few geeks in my area. You think there is enough of us to have a meeting?
What are you smoking! That's why I spend my time here.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Who wants to meet? Since when are geeks social? Grab your PC and CAT5 and setup a LAN party into the wee hours of the morning.
Ouch! I just had a visual of 50 people all trying to get first post...all in the same room.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
3) If we get there first do we get to yell 'FIRST MEET!'???
2) Will there be moderators monitoring our conversations? If so do I get more karma for imported beer?
1) Hey man, if we linked them all up together via video conferencing it would be like a Beowulf cluster of /. meetings!!!
This is going to be the best bash ever!!! Look there's CmdrTaco having a drink with the Goatse Guy!!! Is that Stallman hobnobbing with Trollaxor? Color me surprised, JonKatz has a black eye within the first five minutes that the party started!!!
Best. Idea. Ever.
You're fired.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
-Waldo Jaquith
You get to "moderate" the trolls whether you have points or not.
(cracks knuckles)
I'm sorry, but I'd rather stay at home chatting up guys who *say* they're women than knowing that they're not.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
or somthing like that
somebody let them know the female t-shirt they show under the "Buy crap to wear at your MEETUP" step will be unnecessary.
four-oh-four
I wonder if we can ./ a public place IRL just as a Geocities site?...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
Please invite the person who wrote up this oft-posted drivel... so we can beat him/her up.
Also, be sure to setup some tables for the trolls, and then offer a free round of drinks... laced with something...
Oh, wait, he is already free..
Let Kevin Use a Pager... - Damn, doesn't fit on a bumper sticker...
Ok, who needs freed now? Free MP3s!
Already have FTP, damn...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
No longer must we verbally assault strangers via the Internet, now we may physically assualt them in person. Thanks Slashdot.
Who will be attending this meetup?
So far, the following people have signed up:
AssFace
Ummm...
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
Crap! Your right!
Your mom, or friend or somebody might look over your shoulder and cancel your mailing subscription for slashdot meetups!
Somebody alarm the IT Department!
> Crap! Your right!
Which would make it your left.
Won't this necessarily involve going outside at some point?
And the brethren went away edified.
Quite honestly, I'm afraid to go. People may link my real name to my /. name and recognize that 4/5 times I tend to defend MS technology and even commend MS for their innovations. Maybe since I'm in the Seattle area there will be a few more "on my side" since it's so close to redmond. Nevertheless, I should at least come prepared with a weapon to defend myself. Maybe then I wouldn't be afraid to wear the MSDN T-Shirt and ASP.NET hat that I usually wear to similar meetings ;P
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
Okay, but I'm only meeting in buildings where
the architectural drawings are freely available
by a license that RMS approves of.
jeff
goatse.meetup.com
*shudder*
lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.
with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.
ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
NOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT!
/. and meetup.com for totally screwing over my entire life!
Thank you,
I just ran into Jon Katz at one of them there meetup.com social mixers and found him to be funny, thoughtful & intelligent.
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO BITCH ABOUT?!??!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
I will be anonymous coward #45
Doesn't telling us that sorta defeat the point of going AC?
Still the idea of a place were people could meet anonymously has a certain appeal. Maybe these meetings could grow into something like that.
"The moment "pride" is lost, "freedom" is also lost." - Ramza.
Sadly, there's no barelylegalteens.meetup.com... yet...
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
I was going to make a slick joke about the mysterious lack of interest for a meetup in Redmond, Washington...
BUT...
I was wrong.
It all goes downhill from first post
I've already signed up as six different geek chicks in my area... Bet we have a great turnout!! :) I'll be recording from a van parked across the street. Should be fun to watch.
We should hold an ole fashioned stonecutters conventions. We all just wear our Slashdot User Numbers and the lower numbers get to order all the newbies around. While quaffing beer and signing bawdy songs. ;-)
I always just ctrl-a, ctrl-x whatever is in the box and than type in "I am the king of the world" and than click the agree button, submit.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Hey,
finding women is like fishing. That'sa ll you have to remember. Sounds silly, but it's very true if you examine it for a minute. You don't go fishing with a pole if you want shrimp, and a net won't get you many marlin.
How would dynamiteing the fish fit into this metaphor? It sounds like my sort of approach.
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion