Ha, sounds like fun. And hey, they're from the internet so you know it's cool.

I remember very clearly one of my early fandom meetups, I was in Chicago by myself, standing in a line to get up to a post (Pumpkins) show party in a rented warehouse. And I was all, what the hell do I think I'm doing? Later on I went and had breakfast with people I met in the elevator, and then when the hotel kicked everyone out of the lobby at 4, brought a random sampling of people up to my suite. So, yeah, not much with the responsibility and safe conduct and whatnot, but I had a great time.

Ah, youth. I went to a the MST3K Conventi-Con not knowing anyone in attendance (unless you count brief meetings with the actors themselves at GenCon), hung out with fellow conventioneers in a suite where weed was offered liberally, and ended up getting so smashed on rum at the costume ball that I have no memory from the time I discovered that the skywalks had been locked after midnight until I came to in the shower of my hotel room.

It's probably just as well that there aren't actually supernatural predators prowling the streets late at night. Or, possibly there are and they were afraid the alcohol fumes I was breathing out could be set alight and used against them...

Because of the problems with the venue, there was a certain degree of everyone standing around being, like "I think that person is here for this thing, but I'm not sure." (I was actually remarkably good at identifying which people around the Starbucks were, in fact, internet people. Mark later asked, "But what do you do? Just go up to people and ask if they're from the Internet?" Yes, yes, that is exactly what you do.

That is exactly what you do! I'm pretty sure I've used that exact phrasing.

I suspect what with f2fs and all we as a group have a lot more experience with that sort of thing than most.

I spent most of last evening listening to "Once More with Feeling" while working. Even 9 years later it still fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling.

One of my favorite random meetings was in SF, I was walking through the lobby and saw someone standing in line at checkin wearing a Buffista tshirt and I just walked up and said "hi! I'm Stephanie, who are you?" It was Sparky!

One of my favorite random meetings was in SF, I was walking through the lobby and saw someone standing in line at checkin wearing a Buffista tshirt and I just walked up and said "hi! I'm Stephanie, who are you?" It was Sparky!

We ran into Sumi on the street at the Chicago F2F. I think she just said, "Are you Buffistas?"

My current favorite Internet meet-up story is this.

My current favorite Internet meet-up story is this.

Is she married? Ask her out!

That's your answer to everything, Hec!