2960
2961
2962
2963
2964
2965 - Shoutout to sqeak
2966
2967
2968
2969 - Shoutout to orthogonality, asparagirl, languagehat, felix betachat, & loquax
2971
2973 - Shoutout to five fresh fish
2974 - Shoutout to smedleyman
2975
2977
2980
2983
2984 - Shoutout to madamjujujive
2985 - Shoutout to jonmc, specklet (.)(.), dame, & dodgygeezer

Are the people in the photos identified anywhere?

Names, man, names!

Oh, and if you are who I think you are, porpoise, you're even cuter than I thought you would be.

Yay! I love shoutouts - thank you. And who is the splendid young lady holding it?

I was hoping people would identify themselves, since I'm going to inevitably miss a few and miss people off (names and porpoises and booze don't mix)...

2960 - Lenny70 (L) shaking hands with timeistight
2961 - (L->R) antifreez_, russilwvong, vernonalhart, Lenny70
2962 - timeistight & mediaddict
2963 - sanitycheck
2964 - antifreez_, ori, russilwvong
2965 - porpoise, mediaddict (bkgrnd)
2966 - jeffj & Zack_Replica
2967 - fingerbang (oggle, ladies), ori, jeffj
2968 - elizard/cruise_missive/dedicated_lurker*, Zack_Replica, fingerbang
2969 - ori
2971 - antifreez_, sanitycheck, *, Zack_Replica (obsc), fingerbang
2973 - Lenny70
2974 - Lenny70
2975 - antifreez_, sanitycheck, *, Zack_Replica
2977 - (clockwise, bottom L) russilwvong, mediaddict, vernonalhart, antifreez_, sanitycheck, *, Zack_Replica, ori, Lenny70
2980 - mediaddict, vernonalhart, antifreez_
2983 - ori, somerandombloke, Lenny70, russilwvong
2984 - sanitycheck (bkgrnd), Zack_Replica
2985 - *

* - Zack_Replica's mate, a longtime lurker of both Metafilter and Metachat who we managed to talk into signing up. Her "normal" nick is elizard; someone suggested dedicated_lurker and cruise_missive was a candidate name but she thought that it might sound too bitchy.

<whew> <clears blowhole>

<blushes>

No matildaben, that's fingerbang. I'm the guy shoutingout squeak. ;)

No porpoise, I know you're Asian. I mean the cute Asian guy with the won ton soup.

Wow, Vancouver showed up!

Shouts back atcha all. Wish I could make it down for a meet...

Good lord, you got females to attend this time!!

The geeks are getting uppity.

I would just like to point out that you have hockey on in the background of your meetup, and for this, for this I love Canada.

Applause to porpoise for arranging a great meetup! I had fun, so did elizard.
We never did figure out why the smokers are the last to leave/stop drinking, either....

I had a lot of fun, too.

... and who said anything about actually having stopped drinking? =)

Good point - we went over to a friend's place and continued drinking until ...oh, about 2:30am. :)

wowie, I am so flattered to have such a sweet shoutout - thanks Zack_Replica, and all the rest of you really nifty Vancouverites - made my day!

porpoise, you did a great job with all the introductions, thanks - made it a lot more fun to look at the pics to know who was who ;-) Looks like a great & fun crowd.

welcome, e-lizard

Aw, I should have dragged myself down there, flu hatching or no flu.

Um, yeah. But then you would all hate me because I would have spread my lurrvely potential germs to you all. Upshot is my son is sicker, but I have yet to actually tip over into the state of flu-ishness.

I know you are all riveted by this information.

*waves to sanitycheck*

<whew> <clears blowhole>

*laughs*

jokeefe - Scotch is your friend. And it's medicinal. "Good for what ails ye."
Fact.
Hope to see you (and all those who missed this meetup) at the next one.

madamjjj - you're welcome! It was great - if ever you're in Vancouver for some reason (maybe you've not had enough rain) let us know and we'll pull something together.

Aw, man. Looks like y'all had fun.

If I weren't such a chicken I would have been there.

deborah - my offer of raising a honour guard for you still stands for the next meet. If you want, we'll even dress up in crimson robes (and boomboxes baring out the Imperial March theme or carry rapiers or something.