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12/23/2005 Archived Entry: "December Weblog Meetup Report"

We had a blast at the December Seattle Weblog Meetup, which was a bit of a Holiday edition. Jake of 8bit Joystick (his report) kindly put together gift bags (white elephants of a tech nature, games, DVDs, candy) and brought them along in a huge, heavy duffle bag. I wrapped some of our grandson's toys that I'd like to see the back of and added them to the pile. Everyone who attended either picked a bag or had one thrust upon them. Then, encouraged by Jake, we did some trading. I did a threeway trade, giving the complete proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2005 to Jerry Kindall in trade for two games (Star Tech?), then trading them off to Lion Kimbro for two DVDs of Dragnet episodes.

A special surprise -- Jeanniecool wasn't able to come to the meetup, but she'd dropped by Ralph's the previous day and convinced the deli guy to hold on to a big platter of her homemade holiday cookies for us. They were a hit!

Those present:

• Jake of 8bit Joystick (his report)
• Don Shepherdson
• Clark Humphrey of MISC had narrowly escaped losing his laptop in a mugging earlier in the day.
• Andrew Ferguson (his report) was back from college but will be gone again by next month. He has pictures of his giftbag contents.
• Karen Anderson (her report) brought a giftbag (good thing, that way Jake got to open a gift) and gave me a cool ornament of a dinosaur. Plus, she paid for a month of meetup.com fees! Thanks, Mysterious Traveler! I was talking up Potlatch to her and she might submit a story to the Writers Workshop that's part of the con.
• Lion Kimbro -- his report
• The Deliverator - Wannabee
• Jack William Bell of Antigravitas (his report) and our grandson R-----
• Our friend Bill Boyde
• and me!

Starcraft. It is an extreemly popular game from 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft

Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com @ 12/23/2005 09:12 AM PST