This is an easy one.
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Ed Brayton is at Skepticon.
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PZ Myers is at Skepticon.
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Greta Christina made a virtual appearance at Skepticon.
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Stephanie Zvan is at Skepticon.
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Jen McCreight is at Skepticon.
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Matt Dillahunty is at Skepticon.
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Richard Carrier is at Skepticon.
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Brianne Bilyeu is at Skepticon.
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Kate Donovan is at Skepticon.
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Aron Ra is at Skepticon.
So…where are you? There will be a Freethoughtblogs party at the Farmer’s Gastropub in Springfield, Missouri tonight, stop by and say hello.
Oh, you aren’t in Missouri? You can watch the live stream instead.
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waydude
10 November 2012 at 9:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I never get to go to these things, can we have one in Utah next year? How about I start one? What if you start a skeptical conference in Utah, will anyone come?
Oh yeah, Utah! I’ll offer punch and Pie.
Audley Z. Darkheart (liar and scoundrel)
10 November 2012 at 9:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hang on a second, PZ. You’re being a tad unclear– what exactly are you all doing this weekend?
Akira MacKenzie
10 November 2012 at 10:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sigh… only if I hit the lottery, or I can find a job that pays me an actual living wage (i.e. > $15/hr).
carlie
10 November 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
So jealous.
Been to the Farmer’s gastropub – really nice place. Hope it’s a great time.
bobbyearle
10 November 2012 at 10:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I am not at Skepticon.
Poop.
Charly
10 November 2012 at 10:42 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I am in middle Europe. Being envious.
chigau (棒や石)
10 November 2012 at 10:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m not at Skepticon, either.
Tony–Queer Duck Overlord of The Bronze–
10 November 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Audley:
I’m not certain. It looks like PZ and a bunch of FtBullies are at Skepticon. I’m gonna need some proof of that though. Such an extraordinary claim and all.
Hyperskeptic powers ACTIVATE!
Tony–Queer Duck Overlord of The Bronze–
10 November 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
(though I’m not certain what form I want to take…)
michaellatiolais
10 November 2012 at 11:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I was bound and determined to go this year(I live in Kansas, so it’s just a long drive for me), but I had an IBM conference to attend this week, and that put a kibosh on the whole deal. Alas…
pentatomid
10 November 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Once again I find myself on the wrong continent.
Ogvorbis: broken and cynical
10 November 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m noticing a pattern here.
But I am in Pennsylvania and am at work (just gave a tour to about 40 people).
brianwood
10 November 2012 at 11:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Isn’t the Mor(m)on garden of Eden in Mizzou?
Janine: Hallucinating Liar
10 November 2012 at 11:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I heard that Matt Dillahunty was banned from FtB.
PZ Myers
10 November 2012 at 11:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I heard he was banned from Skepticon. Maybe I should ask him in the Q&A for the talk he’s giving right now.
chigau (棒や石)
10 November 2012 at 12:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That’s a body-double.
Olav
10 November 2012 at 12:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That “livestream” thing demands that I register and login and it tries to push cookies and scripts from a dozen different domains to view just one page. No thanks. At least on FTB I can use my usual protection.
LykeX
10 November 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This is totally gonna undermine all those allegations of being a hive-mind echo-chamber ;)
DLC
10 November 2012 at 2:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
” . . . is at Skepticon . . .”
I could be wrong, and it’s a very small data set, but I’m sensing a bit of a trend here.
DLC
10 November 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
PS : No, I’m not actually at Skepticon. . .. my post might be confusing, but I’m referring to all the people PZ listed.
felix
10 November 2012 at 4:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Should I be able to see live video on LiveStream,? All I see is Jeffrey Markus’ page with 3 comments.
Please advise :-)
shouldbeworking
10 November 2012 at 5:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m on my to shovel the drive way. Again.
andrewriding
10 November 2012 at 6:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well it says there are 40 people watching right now but I can’t find how to click into whatever they are seeing.
Nichelle
10 November 2012 at 7:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Where am I you (rhetorically) ask? I’m busy not existing. You see I’m a foxhole atheist and therefore I don’t exist. I’ll go to Skepticon next year, if the world does not end on Dec 21, that is. May your Skepticon be filled knowledge gained and shared.
andrewriding
10 November 2012 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
After a whole lot of trying to make it load the live stream seems to have gone down.
Menyambal --- Sambal's Little Helper
10 November 2012 at 9:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, I drove past Skepticon and it looked like they were having fun.
I had decided I couldn’t go, as I didn’t want to make the drive up there, for financial and health reasons, even though it’s only about twenty miles. (My backside really hurts, and it isn’t from sitting on a fat wallet.)
So I got a phone call about a family emergency, and ran out the door and went driving anyhow, cursing a bit. I got the emergency taken care of (the kids had locked themselves out of their car, a-frakking-gain) and realized that Skepticon was on the way home.
I cruised down past what I though was the venue, and saw some kid in a “Secular Student Alliance” shirt, but that was the only clue. The place I thought it was looked busy and the folks there looked happy (which was a clue against, maybe), but I looked unshaven and in a raggy shirt, and I felt the pain coming back, so I kept on going for home and a nice lie-down.
I thought about calling my wife and asking her to look up the location anyhow, but decided to not put her through the trouble. When I got home and reclining, I tried to look it up, and got rather frustrated, so I am glad I didn’t ask her. It was where I thought it was, though.
I thought about cleaning up and cruising back up to the after-party, but the dog has malfunctioned again, and this recliner feels good.
I hope the evening goes well for all. I will try to be ready to go next year. Really.
chigau (棒や石)
10 November 2012 at 9:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Menyambal
They are poorer for having missed you.
(or you having missed them)
Menyambal --- Sambal's Little Helper
10 November 2012 at 9:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thank you, chigau.
andrewriding
10 November 2012 at 10:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I got the stream kind of working in time to miss PZ- the site no longer allows me to log in so I listened to Rebecca Watson with this thin space visible around the forced login menu.
Oh well, I’ll catch these things proper after they’re on youtube.
chigau (棒や石)
10 November 2012 at 10:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
andrewriding
Just don’t comment.
Tony–Queer Duck Overlord of The Bronze–
10 November 2012 at 10:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
chigau:
shouldn’t that be “Just don’t read the comments” ?
chigau (棒や石)
10 November 2012 at 10:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Tony
both
g’night
andrewriding
11 November 2012 at 3:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m not seeing why I shouldn’t have posted about the technical difficulties. There were a fair number of people baffled at how to get the stream up when the site wasn’t launching it and even now they still haven’t resolved the issue stopping people from logging in as they required to view the stream.
There were only a few people posting about it here but I saw a fair number struggling to find a way to view this on the site.
speed0spank
11 November 2012 at 4:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Andrew if I’m not mistaken I think they meant to avoid the youtube comments because they are clusterfuck of assholes, not that your comment was inappropriate. That’s what I gathered from it anyways
acolyteofsagan
11 November 2012 at 9:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Crikey! All those names together in the same place at the same time.
If the Devil (or Jeremy Feckin’ Kyle, same thing) could cast his net, eh? :-)
Naked Bunny with a Whip
11 November 2012 at 9:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And they’ll all claim to be Spartacus.
chigau (棒や石)
11 November 2012 at 3:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yes.
It was about youtube comments.
andrewriding
11 November 2012 at 3:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh I have some fun in youtube comments actually. The individual people are frequently set up to receive notifications when you reply to their comments. Nobody else is going to read it but I can spit out something that’s not terrible in less than ten seconds and then wait for any of them to take the bait.
I’ve got time for this kind of bullshit right now.
Markita Lynda—threadrupt
11 November 2012 at 5:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Humanist Anthony Penn is the last speaker. He said he didn’t need the slide projector, so someone promptly draped a coat over it. I like that!
Markita Lynda—threadrupt
11 November 2012 at 7:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The entire last day, at least, is available in one continuous 9-hour video stream. Listened to Anthony; now rolling back to the top.