October 7, 2005

11:12 PM

Photos of the recent Vancouver meetup
I apologize in advance for the utter suckiness of the interface - I uploaded most of these shots to Flickr on Tuesday, and they're still not viewable there. So I have managed to scrape together this patchwork system. HTML artiste, I am not.
posted by birdsquared to MetaFilter gatherings at 11:12 PM (21 comments total)

Egad. Thank goodness for those b00bies in that picture of me -- it would otherwise be a horrible, horrible photo.
posted by antifreez_ at 11:52 PM on October 7, 2005

Looks like you all had a nice time, but just so you know this meetup doesn't count. Any Vancouver meetup without filmgoerjuan is like a NYC meetup without jonmc or amberglow.
posted by riffola at 11:55 PM on October 7, 2005

Super good time.
For those who were vaguely interested in the UBC theatre season: Theatre at UBC
posted by stray at 12:03 AM on October 8, 2005

Hahahaha. Everyone in Vancouver has glasses and a funny hat!
posted by dersins at 12:20 AM on October 8, 2005

(also sideburns, apparently.)
posted by dersins at 12:20 AM on October 8, 2005

Not only that, but we all close our eyes when pictures are taken. Ah well.
posted by vernondalhart at 12:30 AM on October 8, 2005

Even with your eyes shut you provided a laugh for the many with a shoutout for sock puppets. That is talent!
posted by Cranberry at 1:07 AM on October 8, 2005

cool---and i love the sock puppet shoutout!
posted by amberglow at 8:26 AM on October 8, 2005

vernondalhart writes "Not only that, but we all close our eyes when pictures are taken. Ah well."

You've done that for every single picture of you I've seen since you started wearing snazzy hats. It's as if, despite the lack of opaque, black sunglasses you're obsessed with the image of the blind blues musician. (Does such a beast even exist, or is it a figment of my imagination?).
posted by ChrisR at 9:32 AM on October 8, 2005

oh, nice photos! That was a fun evening!

riffola - filmgoerjuan sent his regrets earlier that day.

> Everyone in Vancouver has...(sideburns, apparently)

I excel at hiding mine :)
posted by seawallrunner at 10:15 AM on October 8, 2005

Oh fer fuck's sake. How did I miss this? *confused*
posted by jokeefe at 10:30 AM on October 8, 2005

Was Blind Willie Johnson blind? Did I just make that name up? I can't remember. Anyhow, I'm sure there's been a blind blues musician at least once.

jokeefe writes "Oh fer fuck's sake. How did I miss this? *confused*"

Heh. You might have missed it if you'd heard about it too - the place we agreed at meeting at was closed when we got there, so we had to do a lighting fast move to somewhere else. Apparently this is a Vancouver tradition.
posted by vernondalhart at 11:24 AM on October 8, 2005

thanks for the pics birdsquared! & a hello to vancouverites from brooklyn.
posted by ori at 11:58 AM on October 8, 2005

I think ori goes to the top of my "Nerds of the Unexpected" list.
A conspicuous lack of sideburns has so rarely been such an asset.
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:00 PM on October 8, 2005

not sure what was meant by that.
posted by ori at 5:20 PM on October 8, 2005

stray has very pretty eyes.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 9:28 PM on October 8, 2005

good lord, large picture sizes eh?
posted by edgeways at 10:18 PM on October 8, 2005

It was almost certainly a compliment.
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:17 AM on October 9, 2005

I uploaded most of these shots to Flickr on Tuesday, and they're still not viewable there.

Er, what? I've never had such a lag with uploading images to Flickr. In fact, the lag has never been more than, say, 10 or 15 seconds. Care to elaborate? Maybe you web-uploaded them, which is a bad idea with photos that are 2.5MB apiece.
posted by Plutor at 5:54 AM on October 10, 2005

I have glasses and sideburns, too, but I missed the call-to-meet.
posted by solid-one-love at 3:02 PM on October 10, 2005

I love those meetup pictures because they reassure me that I've got lots of company in the "goofy-looking" category, though I'll bet I'm more weathered and wizened than most of you kiddies.
posted by davy at 7:16 PM on October 10, 2005