Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Happy Birthday Vortex!!
3 hours of action-adventure tv shows is apparently at least an hour too much. I had exhausting shoot'em up dreams. Both cats were occupying the pillows which is usually a sign I've been thrashing around too much in my sleep. Oh, and the fact I was all tangled up in the sheets. Getting out of bed shouldn't be as complicated as it was this morning.
When I have nights like that, the cats normally cower in the other room, the pillows end up on the floor, as do the sheets.
Nice Logo!
The first online people I met IRL were Kat and Lori. After I had to cancel once or twice because of work, I was supposed to meet them at the Grove, across the street from my apartment complex. I told them to park in my apartment complex to save money, so I ended up running into them there. I hadn't seen a picture of them yet, but Kat's description made me recognize them.
They were kissing when I walked up though, so I had to wait until they stopped before I could say hello.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VORTEX!!!!! Soon I shall be plying you with mojitos. Muhahahaha.
First online person I met was Joey Dee, back in PF/WX days. Second was Deb, when I flew out to SF for Halloween in 2001. Good times.
She's such a hard-ass.
Prison will do that to you.
My first online meeting was not someone from here. (I haven't met any Buffistas yet!) His name's Bill, and I don't even remember how I got to talking to him anymore. He came out to visit me and some others from NY when I was in college. I remember my mother thinking I was crazy after the fact. He's a sweetie, though I don't talk to him nearly as often anymore.
Long before the Buffistas ever took definitive form on the Table Talk boards, I'd already met Betsy HP, Lysana, and Mitch Wagner in passing at SF cons and the like. So I had a degree of comfort in considering going to a group watching at Nora's or inviting the proto-Somervillains to my house....
My first F2F meeting was April 1999 in DC, when I met a group of people from my first discussion board (Fourth Turning, the Strauss and Howe generational history website). That F2F was really unusual, since it was co-organized by the authors, involved an NBC camera crew following us around most of the weekend, a taping of C-Span's BookNotes about being an online book discussion group, and a tour of various memorials with commentary by Neil and Bill (which drew attention from other tourists, who were wondering if they were "somebody famous").
I fell out of keeping up on that board after discovering Salon and Table Talk, (and eventually all you guys!) but it does lead to "Hey, I know that guy!" moments such as when I was watching a History Channel show on Sacco and Vanzetti, and saw one of the 4T F2F people featured as the major talking head in the documentary due to his recent book on the pair.
The first online people I met were all pre-WWW.
Some of them I still talk to on a regular basis. Some of them I dated and don't talk to. Some of us had wild times and occasionally talk, though we don't really hang like we did, back in the day.
The first WWW people I met were from Vinery.net, back when it still had a BBS. My bridal shower was scheduled for that day, so I didn't make it to the track until the race after the big race, and thus missed my chance to go to the backstretch with everyone else (one of the people who was in town for the event was a former exercise rider who was pretty social and connected--Deb reminds me of her, in a way) and meet Budroyale.
But I did make the dinner and get to hear some hilarious gossip about various racing personalities.
My first b.org meetup was with Smonster and Amyth. We met at a local music and crafts festival. I think the theory was that the crowds would protect us from potential ax murderers and the music and suchlike would give us something to talk about if F2F conversations lagged.
Nowadays I'm over at Amyth's once a week or so, hanging with her and Smonster and usually watching fun tv and chatting. They're great to know in person (as some of you will soon find out). I'm very glad I did the whole mini-F2F thing.
I met shrift and ita and Theresa W. at my apartment within like a week of delurking. Which is RIDICULOUS. People, I could have been an axe murderer, you don't know!
Oh yeah, I had met at least one person off the interweb before Buffistas -- a guy I met through the discussion part of the old GirlsOnFilm.
