When/where/what-like was the first NYC meetup? January 29, 2010 12:54 PM Subscribe
When/where/what-like was the first NYC meetup? (My GoogleFu failed.)
Yeah, starvingartist is still active. Apparently he got enough food.
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:14 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Jaltcoh at 1:14 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
Oh I'm an idiot, Mo Nickles was just in the Wikipedia thread.
posted by The Whelk at 1:16 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 1:16 PM on January 29, 2010
anildash has dropped by a meetup in recent memory (the mathowie + cortex visit, I think that was last summer).
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:17 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:17 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
I was at this one. So was swift and mdn. All three of us were at the 10th anniversary. We should've gotten a prize or something, like maybe discount coupons for a buffet or something.
posted by jonmc at 1:17 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by jonmc at 1:17 PM on January 29, 2010
anildash is still active. He doesn't comment often, but he's still around.
posted by zarq at 1:18 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by zarq at 1:18 PM on January 29, 2010
In fact only werty, mmm, sardines and ParisParamus are not active anymore.
posted by Kattullus at 1:18 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by Kattullus at 1:18 PM on January 29, 2010
Does this mean we should start planning another one? (cause y'all are right there)
posted by The Whelk at 1:20 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by The Whelk at 1:20 PM on January 29, 2010
Weird, are any of those people still active?
Weird, I first read this as "are any of these people still alive?"
posted by marxchivist at 1:32 PM on January 29, 2010 [2 favorites]
Weird, I first read this as "are any of these people still alive?"
posted by marxchivist at 1:32 PM on January 29, 2010 [2 favorites]
That thread seems to contain references to a previous incident, which suggests it can't hvae been the first.
posted by grobstein at 2:05 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by grobstein at 2:05 PM on January 29, 2010
It may be a reference to the oldest ever meetup thread, which didn't seem to spawn any meetups.
posted by Kattullus at 2:18 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by Kattullus at 2:18 PM on January 29, 2010
oh man. that's a great thread.
In all seriousness, Williamsburg would add to the sense of adventure.
oh, those heady days of 2001!
posted by shmegegge at 2:18 PM on January 29, 2010 [6 favorites]
In all seriousness, Williamsburg would add to the sense of adventure.
oh, those heady days of 2001!
posted by shmegegge at 2:18 PM on January 29, 2010 [6 favorites]
I was at this one. So was swift and mdn. All three of us were at the 10th anniversary. We should've gotten a prize or something, like maybe discount coupons for a buffet or something.
Huh, I was there and I guess I thought it was the first. Actually, did that first NYC meetup thread lead to a meetup or not? It ends with Paris apologizing for his no-show, but no-one gives a time or place — and there was no MeFiMail back then. And then in this thread Mo says "Paris, I really really want to have an NYC get-together" which sounds like there hadn't been one. So it's possible that the first one wasn't till the one at Blah Blah on Jan 24 2002 which mlang recapped here.
posted by nicwolff at 2:23 PM on January 29, 2010
Huh, I was there and I guess I thought it was the first. Actually, did that first NYC meetup thread lead to a meetup or not? It ends with Paris apologizing for his no-show, but no-one gives a time or place — and there was no MeFiMail back then. And then in this thread Mo says "Paris, I really really want to have an NYC get-together" which sounds like there hadn't been one. So it's possible that the first one wasn't till the one at Blah Blah on Jan 24 2002 which mlang recapped here.
posted by nicwolff at 2:23 PM on January 29, 2010
Huh, I was there and I guess I thought it was the first.
I remember. At the 10th we were hoping that you, palegirl, and joemaller would show up, so it could be like one of thos sitcome reunion specials where everybody gets all tearful and shit.
posted by jonmc at 2:33 PM on January 29, 2010
I remember. At the 10th we were hoping that you, palegirl, and joemaller would show up, so it could be like one of thos sitcome reunion specials where everybody gets all tearful and shit.
posted by jonmc at 2:33 PM on January 29, 2010
Holy crap, ParisParamus? Man, I remember the days when remembering him was a sign that you'd been here forever.
Apparently we've always had a resident contentious conservative lawyer on metafilter. It's nice to imagine that ParisParamus, dios, and jock@law all went off and started a firm together somewhere or something.
posted by koeselitz at 2:38 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
Apparently we've always had a resident contentious conservative lawyer on metafilter. It's nice to imagine that ParisParamus, dios, and jock@law all went off and started a firm together somewhere or something.
posted by koeselitz at 2:38 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
by the way, just to point this out:
I am shocked that the first NYC meetup wasn't at Revival.
posted by shmegegge at 3:28 PM on January 29, 2010 [3 favorites]
I am shocked that the first NYC meetup wasn't at Revival.
posted by shmegegge at 3:28 PM on January 29, 2010 [3 favorites]
Does this mean we should start planning another one? (cause y'all are right there)
Actually, I am planning to post a NYC meetup thread for Sunday afternoon 2/21 for dim sum in Chinatown! You in?
posted by amro at 3:46 PM on January 29, 2010
Actually, I am planning to post a NYC meetup thread for Sunday afternoon 2/21 for dim sum in Chinatown! You in?
posted by amro at 3:46 PM on January 29, 2010
Putting it on my calendar, hurray!!!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 3:53 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 3:53 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
It was actually in the Bowery, in 1876. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Time Travel FPP.
posted by Eideteker at 5:54 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Eideteker at 5:54 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]
I was at the first Los Angeles meetup. There weren't any girls there. We all sat around a long table in a private room. It all seems a bit surreal now.
posted by bingo at 8:36 PM on January 29, 2010
posted by bingo at 8:36 PM on January 29, 2010
> It was actually in the Bowery, in 1876.
I remember that one! Volumes of sulphurous vapor wreathed the meetup bar until it seemed some mansion of a nether world, some Plutonic castle, where a dim, weird Proserpine might rule and revel, as WhyoBoy wrote in MetaTalk afterwards. In retrospect, it might not have been such a good idea to hold it in Five Points; we lost some good members that day.
*pours out a growler of grog for his homies*
posted by languagehat at 8:45 AM on January 30, 2010 [5 favorites]
I remember that one! Volumes of sulphurous vapor wreathed the meetup bar until it seemed some mansion of a nether world, some Plutonic castle, where a dim, weird Proserpine might rule and revel, as WhyoBoy wrote in MetaTalk afterwards. In retrospect, it might not have been such a good idea to hold it in Five Points; we lost some good members that day.
*pours out a growler of grog for his homies*
posted by languagehat at 8:45 AM on January 30, 2010 [5 favorites]
koeselitz Apparently we've always had a resident contentious conservative lawyer on metafilter. It's nice to imagine that ParisParamus, dios, and jock@law all went off and started a firm together somewhere or something.
That's just a horrible thing to say. Neither Dios or Jock@law deserve that kind of insult to their professional competence. Orly Taitz or Jack Thompson probably wouldn't hire PP as a filing clerk; Taitz and Thompson may be flagrant nutbars, but they demonstrate intelligence and bi-directional engagement in their writing.
PP is currently "campaigning" for the obnoxious fascist Mitt Romney, which says all it needs to say about Romney's hiring practices, and is a great outcome for everybody else.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 3:08 PM on January 30, 2010
That's just a horrible thing to say. Neither Dios or Jock@law deserve that kind of insult to their professional competence. Orly Taitz or Jack Thompson probably wouldn't hire PP as a filing clerk; Taitz and Thompson may be flagrant nutbars, but they demonstrate intelligence and bi-directional engagement in their writing.
PP is currently "campaigning" for the obnoxious fascist Mitt Romney, which says all it needs to say about Romney's hiring practices, and is a great outcome for everybody else.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 3:08 PM on January 30, 2010
Orly Taitz ... probably wouldn't hire PP as a filing clerk
I dunno. Orly has a real thing for crazy lawyers. If Charles Edward Lincoln III could rev her engine, there's no telling where PP could drive her to.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:11 PM on January 30, 2010
I dunno. Orly has a real thing for crazy lawyers. If Charles Edward Lincoln III could rev her engine, there's no telling where PP could drive her to.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:11 PM on January 30, 2010
There was definitely one in early 2001. I'm traveling, so can't find my notes, but I believe that first thread led to the first MeFi Meetup on the Bowery. Will try to dig up more details later.
posted by anildash at 10:21 PM on January 30, 2010
posted by anildash at 10:21 PM on January 30, 2010
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posted by Jaltcoh at 1:03 PM on January 29, 2010 [1 favorite]