xkcd Meetup 2007!

so has there been any mention of this years spot? you think something has been seeded and i just missed it?

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mainstream media

[Oct. 21st, 2007|08:38 pm]

plorkwort

A profile in the City Weekly section of today's Boston Globe (bugmenot) begins with a brief discussion of the meetup.

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Videos from the meetup

[Oct. 10th, 2007|04:26 pm]

cos

I finally beat iMovie into submission... sort of. Well, I managed to extract a few passable videos from it, and replaced the two I tried to post on YouTube earlier that YouTube kept getting confused by. So, here are a few of my videos from the xkcd meetup

Includes one of

underwatercolor enhancing T-shirts.

If you're in one of the videos and wanna identify yourself by LJ name, please comment.

Cambridge parks & playgrounds bike ride this Sunday

[Sep. 28th, 2007|10:50 am]

ron_newman

For those of us still in the Cambridge area ... there will be a Cambridge Parks & Playgrounds bike tour this Sunday, starting at 10:15 am at the Cambridge Common. The ride goes by Rev. Thomas J. Williams Park and through Danehy Park.

[Sep. 28th, 2007|10:49 am]

is anyone else kind of disappointed that he hasn't made a blog post or a comic about the event?

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[Sep. 27th, 2007|06:34 am]

http://media.www.jsons.org/media/storage/paper139/news/2007/09/21/Bostonregion/Xkcd-Webcomic.Fans.Converge.In.Cambridge.Park-2992632.shtml

News.

[Sep. 26th, 2007|08:07 pm]

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid48208.aspx

[I don't know if this has been posted before, if so, sorry, just let me know and I'll take it town.]

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[Sep. 26th, 2007|12:54 am]

safiiru

[

mood

accomplished

]

I didn't make it to Massachusetts on Sunday, but xkcd was still celebrated. Deliciously! ( And it's a good thing we took pictures, because these went quickly. )

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Raptor Dance

[Sep. 25th, 2007|01:35 am]

axleblaze

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Pictures!

[Sep. 24th, 2007|06:38 pm]

[

music

Valet - "Mystic Flood"

]

( Pictures. )

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so i am confused...

[Sep. 24th, 2007|01:46 pm]

i saw a ton of people get money signed by randall. i've been trying to remember a comic reference, but i can't... is it from the comic, or something i don't know about?

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Still more pics

[Sep. 24th, 2007|08:27 am]

shadesong

My pics are over here - includes a few of those fan-drawn panels, the park's new sign, the raptor with the boom box, the proximity-to-cat cake, et cetera.

(The wee ponytailed girl is my daughter, is why she's in so many. She was initially skeptical about wandering over to a park because a webcomic said so, but she ended up seriously getting into it. :) )

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attendance

[Sep. 24th, 2007|01:34 am]

gravitrue

So I asked a few friends how many people they thought were in attendance.

One guessed about a thousand, based on his periodic experience of an 8000 sqft ballroom with 1000 seated people in it.

By rough estimate (putting up the sat pic on google maps, tearing a piece of paper to match the 50' legend on the pic, and using it to measure on the screen) that park is around 28,000 sqft, and it was pretty full; even at the fringes by the t-shirt stand, I rarely had 50 sqft to myself. That's 560 people less the area covered by foliage and furnishings. But 50 is the roomiest; the jungle gym and crowd by the fence where Randall Munroe was talking were probably more like 4 sqft/person.

Another indicator is that off the top of my head a few minutes ago I listed fifty people I know who I saw there. I may be forgetting as many as another fifty. I don't think I recognized more than 1 in 10 people in the crowd, and quite possibly half that, which puts it into the 500-2000 range.

Conservatively, there must have been six hundred there, and a thousand is certainly possible.

Yow.

(At 02:38, on the other hand, there were 3 people there, but I wasn't one of them; if only I'd noticed the comic had been changed I would have gone over).

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boston globe?

[Sep. 24th, 2007|02:03 am]

i heard a little birdy say that there was a reporter at the event? this could be BS, or it could be awesome.

i am hoping for awesome. can anyone get citation for this? it is needed.

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LISSSTTT!

[Sep. 23rd, 2007|11:48 pm]

Where is the list now?

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[Sep. 23rd, 2007|11:43 pm]

coraline

people with flickr accounts should add their photos to the meetup pool... there are a lot of good pictures there :)

Photos.

[Sep. 23rd, 2007|06:04 pm]

darxus

Sixteen, starting here: http://www.chaosreigns.com/gallery/IMG_1998.jpg.html
(I never intended to go over the fence, geez.)

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missing camera

[Sep. 23rd, 2007|04:32 pm]

cos

underwatercolor, who was spraypainting T-shirts here at the meetup all afternoon, is missing his camera. It's a Canon digital SLR, last seen by the T-shirt table.

If you have any clues, you can text messge me through my LJ userinfo page, or comment here.

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[Sep. 22nd, 2007|10:53 pm]

georgy

Hi all,
Does anyone know if Randall is going to be at the meetup tomorrow?

Thanks!

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