And the company was much, much better.
November 4, 2007
The blogger meetup.
Were you at the blogger meetup last night? The setting was very pretty:
And the company was much, much better.
And the company was much, much better.
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Were you at the blogger meetup last night?
I was up drinking 'til 4 a.m. and seem to recall spending a fair while watching the Joe Calzaghe fight on TV. Did we do that?
Woke up in London, so how did you get me on a flight? That's neat.
Better that what? Last time? Up early this morning, waiting for the news, photos. Did the wine flow freely, is everyone still in bed?
No John, everyone is out doing other things today.
Thanks again, Ann. It looks like a perfect day for a drive along the coast, so I hope you are doing that as planned and bring back more great pictures.
Really enjoyed learning about the other readers, their experiences and interests, as well.
This is what I feared most about a meetup.
Well, like the captain in that Grand Funk Railroad song, you're getting closer to my home. I do look forward to joining an Althouse meetup someday. Glad everyone had a good time.
Well, I'm assuming since all the arrangements were handled by email...
..that Althouse had a pre-planned list of topics for discussion, and the amount of time allotted to each topic.
Hopefully, planned topics could blot out the creepy silences and awkward cross-currents that hang in the air at these gatherings with complete strangers who have nothing in common, and aren't the least bit compatible.
Other than that, it was a great time!
Love,
Maxine
P.S. Had Althouse boasted the location would be at the Ritz, ahead of time, I would have gladly made a cameo. Why keep the Ritz-Carlton a secret?
I don't understand that reply. Ann publicly posted that there would be a get-together and invited those interested in attending to reply privately. The day after the get-tegether, Ann publicly posted that the get-together had, in fact, occured.
On second thought, my comments about the topics of conversation (general not specific), in response to earlier comment, may have been inappropriate. I'm deleting it.
OK.
It's good to practice letting go of a point, even if it might be worth considering, and just bowing to the zeitgeist.
Right?
Randy, I liked the list of topics.
Reader, don't let Maxine confuse you! She's horsing around. She knows very well why I didn't put the time and place up on the blog. As with the 2 meetups I did in NY, I put up a message saying there will be one, but you have to email me for the time and place, and afterwards I put up what is essentially my thank you note to those who came. Anyone who wanted to come could have come. It wasn't exclusive.
OK - here's a revised version:
What did we talk about?
Chinese restaurants in San Francisco and the East Bay; "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" (although not by name) whether blogging can be translated into publishing or something more lucrative than GoogleAds; where to go on Sunday; the hat shop; Peace Corps work in Guinea; content creators' efforts to control distribution of their works on YouTube; Porsches; Model A's; argumentation on the internet; piloting planes and helicopters, and jumping out them; the PGA Tour; clarity of expression as a result of legal education; use of a legal education when not practicing law; first-year law students' major writing assignment; advantages of not going directly to law school from college; attributes and demerits of living in Australia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and New York; what the "Fair Trade Coffee" designation means; serving in the US Navy and the US Marines in time of peace and war; Andrew Sullivan's writing style; and Glenn Reynolds's book An Army of Davids. That's a few of the subjects I recall.
The six degrees reference is because, although none of us had ever met, we had a number of coincidental close associations.
One other topic that came up was commuting to San Francisco. Given the relative compactness of the area, I was surprised at the time difference between public and private transportation for someone's commute from Berkeley. 30-35 minutes by car and 1.5 hours by bus & BART.
If it's not exclusive....why not publicly announce the location and time in advance....right on the Blog?
If security is the issue, the Ritz Carlton is like Fort Knox anyway.
A request for private email denotes some measure of exclusivity.
It also creates a barrier for those that don't make a habit of sending an email to strangers, and would rather simply, show up, without all the pre-rigamorole, and RSVP nonsense.
An element of surprise, squelched by Althouse and her ridiculous email requirements.
Again, The Ritz makes a beautiful setting, despite those thick cross-currents that hung in the air during the awkward silences among strangers, who will never see each other again.
Easy come, easy go.
Love,
Maxine
The Ritz makes a beautiful setting
For public spaces in SF Hotels, the Sir Francis Drake kicks the Ritz's ass.
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