I would be honored to attend with you, but I haven’t even managed to meet up with the few Colorado Dopers yet!
Plus, I’m having existential doubt on one of us being the evil twin. On the current global scale I’m not sure we can qualify. We may have to settle for “sauntered vaguely downwards” twin.
Seconded.
And there is something about @Gatopescado 's succinct posts that gets me every time. Looks like somebody with whom you could drink a beer or two without wasting too many words.
Ah, thanks. I imagine it would be really fun to get all the photographers together to shoot an event like a festival or some cool space to see all the different perspectives everyone would come up with. I bet we’d have a blast.
I want to meet the large contingent of Doper’s with great culinary skills (@pulykamell and @solost among them and in this thread), especially the smokers and bakers.
Ideally at a venue where they can be forc… persuaded to prepare their specialties for us. I will then also pick various brains and steal recipes even if they are to be guarded unto death.
A week should be enough glutto… research and conviviality! And those Doper’s in the know on quality alcohol will also be invited to share their stocks and skills!
I’ve only had the chance to meet a few Dopers in-person: @pulykamell and the now-inactive @WordMan , for drinks at a local hotel maybe 15 years ago, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan for lunch a year or two ago (we need to do that again one of these days!), and @penultima_thule during his U.S. driving tour.
I don’t feel the need to name more names, but if we’ve interacted regularly (and positively) in the past, you’re likely to be someone I’d enjoy meeting.
Dopers I have actually met: @DrStrangelove. I enjoyed our chat at a Spacex launch.
Dopers I will probably meet: @WordMan. He’s just up the coast, I know where he works, and I promised him a go at one of my guitars. He took up residence at The Gear Page after he left here and I joined in the convos there for a while.
Dopers I would like to meet: plenty, would be unfair to single anyone out.
Doper I most want to meet: @Super_Kapowzler I think he’d be a riot. And shit.
We could meet up with @Snowboarder_Bo and throw shit into the quarry.
Please try to schedule this all-expenses-paid fest sometime between November and March, so it won’t be during main farming season here and I can come. I’d like to meet way too many of you to list.
I’ve met a few others in person. The most random one was @Gundy. I had moved back to the US and I got a temp job at accounts receivable at a window company, and I overheard her talking on the phone in the cubicle next to me about a party for some nerdy message board and I peeked over her cubicle and said: “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but overhear. Were you by any chance talking about the Straight Dope Message Board?” She looked at me blankly, paused, and said “what’s your screen name?” What were the odds?
I’m still waiting to meet @Qadgop_the_Mercotan. We’ve had a near miss or two, and I hope one day on my trips to Wisconsin we’ll finally make it happen (hopefully at that pizza place!)