5MVF meetings - photos, etc

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Just wondering who else on the 5MV fora have met other forumgoers. Also, pictures of such an event would be appreciated.

To start things off, here's one from the meeting of Sa'ar Chasm and me.

Say cheese (http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/stargate/kilistev.jpg)

This was taken just outside the Inner Sanctum of the secret mountain base I have yet to give any meaningful name. Suggestions welcome.

Any other meeting pictures? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, you really do have purple hair? :D

I know kodu, but that's just because he's my brother.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Sorry about entering a reply to the other thread just after you started this one. ;) I'm too slow I guess. Also too far away from everyone else and too inertially gifted to be traipsing around to Canada and Florida and Wisconsin and the like. [img:post_uid0]http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/forums/html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif[/img:post_uid0][/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You will notice that in an attempt to breed an army of supermen to take over the world, we crossed my DNA with samples from Jay Leno and a beaver. Results were disappointing. The experiments are continuing.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[quote:post_uid0="catalina_marina"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh, you really do have purple hair? :D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yep. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cool! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It looks like this dude's hair (http://www.amphigory.com/se_pimpin_purple.html) (last one on the page), except a bit redder.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Of course, the purple hair is an extremely recent development.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]More like redevelopment. :P[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You're all nu... I mean confusing.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Barmy may be the word you're looking for. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That too. But right now, especially confusing. So, did you meet Sa'ar [i:post_uid0]before[/i:post_uid0] or [i:post_uid0]after[/i:post_uid0] you got purple hair?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Between[/i:post_uid0]

Yes, it was on dragonback, in the space of three heartbeats...*doesn't think anyone will get the reference*[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0][i:post_uid0]Between[/i:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
Ohhh :dead:[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Temp dyes wash out, y'see. :smile:

And no, I didn't get that reference. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ah, now I see.
[quote:post_uid0]More like redevelopment. :P[/quote:post_uid0]
:think:

[quote:post_uid0]And no, I didn't get that reference. ;) [/quote:post_uid0]
Neither did I.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Enlightenment. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nan's purple hair keeps getting reincarnated over and over again....[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Purple is my natural colour. Really. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Cool pic. I love the hair :)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I dyed my hair a couple of weeks ago too, but my mom is the only one who notices the difference. Including me.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]This thread got 20 replies in under 24 hours... that's impressive even for us.

For the record, I haven't met anyone involved with 5MV in person, with the obvious exceptions -- Thinkey at TorontoTrek, Kira on various occasions, and Owen through high school.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I think it would be cool if we could all meet at one big weird meeting. now that would be weird. unfortionetly we would all need a bunch of money to get there. :\

Oh and i guess i should mention that i havent met anyone either, though sax and i were in the same state at one point, we were opposite ends.[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I don't know how good an idea that would be, even were it feasible. Â Friendships that work perfectly online can be awkward in person for any number of reasons. Â Trying dozens of those transitions all at once might work out fine, but it could also be a disaster.

Oh yeah, Nan mentioned pictures. Â I'd have to ask Kira before showing any of ours, but I'm in a couple of the TT15 JetCFest photos here (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3698/tt15/). Â Keep in mind this was two years ago -- I look pretty different now (and these aren't great photos anyway).[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I think it would be cool if we could all meet at one big weird meeting. now that would be weird. unfortionetly we would all need a bunch of money to get there. :\[/quote:post_uid0]
Some would need more than others...
Hypothetically, make sure it's not just one day.

Great shirt Zeke! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Derek]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]but I'm in a couple of the TT15 JetCFest photos here (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3698/tt15/). Keep in mind this was two years ago -- I look pretty different now (and these aren't great photos anyway).[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nevertheless, it shows that my mental image for you was [i:post_uid0]way[/i:post_uid0] off.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]but I'm in a couple of the TT15 JetCFest photos here. Keep in mind this was two years ago -- I look pretty different now (and these aren't great photos anyway).
[/quote:post_uid0]

You mean you're no longer a blonde named Celia?[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Heh. Incidentally, said blonde named Celia happens to be Nebula, the founder of JetC as an organization.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]...it could also be a disaster.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I knew that something like that probably wouldn't work, but the thought of us all in one room if we all act like we do here (which of course we wouldn't) is funny.

as far as zeke not looking like what Derek expected him to look like, whenever i see pictures of people that i know through the internet, they never look like i expect them too.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I know I always expected Zeke to be a tall, statuesque blonde.

Or a [i:post_uid0]reeeeally[/i:post_uid0] small guy in a body cast.

Maybe that was froot. and BQ's influence. ;)

*runs*[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[quote:post_uid0="Zeke"][color=#000000:post_uid0]This thread got 20 replies in under 24 hours... that's impressive even for us.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm a little frightened by the size and *cough* majesty of the Word Association and one-by-whatever story threads.

It's almost like Slashdot. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Annoying double post. Ignore.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Annoying double post. Ignore.[/quote:post_uid0]
You mean tripple post, right? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ack! There's another copy? :S[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]No, but the last post on the previous page is yours too, so you posted three times without others in between.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]By double post, I meant there had been a goof and two copies of the same message had been posted.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I know, but technically... :p[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Derek"][quote:post_uid0="Zeke"]but I'm in a couple of the TT15 JetCFest photos here (http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3698/tt15/). Â Keep in mind this was two years ago -- I look pretty different now (and these aren't great photos anyway).[/quote:post_uid0]
Nevertheless, it shows that my mental image for you was [i:post_uid0]way[/i:post_uid0] off.[/quote:post_uid0]
Seconded. Or thirded, or whatever count we're up to. ;)

I posted a crummy picture of myself in one of those picture threads over in Misc at the TrekBBS (only reg'ed members can see that forum, for those of you unregistered there who're foolhardy or bored enough to go look). Plus I still have a picture in my profile here ;). I don't have any pictures of myself with others from here to post though. Sorry.

Which reminds me--hmm. *puzzle, puzzle* *checks* Nope, Derek and Blueberry's wedding pictures were on the old board. [img:post_uid0]http://3sygma.com/fiveminute/forums/html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif[/img:post_uid0] That would've been handy if they'd been posted here.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Isn't there one in Derek's profile?

[quote:post_uid0]Seconded. Or thirded, or whatever count we're up to. ;) [/quote:post_uid0]
Me too, but I'm not going to tell what I thought he looked like. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[MmeBlueberry]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yep, Derek has one of our wedding pics in his profile. The rest of the ones I uploaded are at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mmeblue/wedding.html .

Derek looks just like I expected him to look. But then, I knew him before I came here. I don't think I have any from when we first met, but I'll hunt around and see...

Apart from people I knew before seeing them online, I think there's only been one case where my mental image of someone turned out pretty close to accurate. Most of the time I'm way off. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hehehe, you kids are cute. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[FatMatDuhRat]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][b:post_uid0]Nan,[/b:post_uid0] that is an absolutely awesome hair style!
It reminds me of my bleached blonde punk days.
[i:post_uid0]You > Me.[/i:post_uid0]

[b:post_uid0]Zeke,[/b:post_uid0] I want that shirt!
(& it'd better be size L)
:D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thanks. :D

Purple is more than a colour, baby.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Nan! You live!

And right, purple's more than a colour, it's a lifestyle, baby! :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's an imperial colour.[/color:post_uid0]

[FatMatDuhRat]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Nan"]Purple is more than a colour, baby.[/quote:post_uid0]
Yeah, [b:post_uid0]Purple[/b:post_uid0] is a major part of the rainbow as it streaks
across the summer sky right after a massive downpour
washes away all the garbage on top of the earth.

(I'm inna slightly poetic mood today.)
:D[/color:post_uid0]

[entei]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Purple is also the colour of a pot of purple paint as it accidentally spills on a sheet of paper.

(and nope, I'm not feeling at all poetic today =;) )[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Actually, that [i:post_uid0]is[/i:post_uid0] poetic, in a sort of Beat or possibly coffee-house/PIB kind of way.
:faint sound of bongos:

Purple, yeah. Mauve, even. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I'm off to Italy. See you in two weeks.

Have fun people!
:) :D :smile: :bigsmile:[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:waves, throws confetti & streamers: :p[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*Goes back in time, waves back, and returns to this time* :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]How's Italy? Get a Lamborghini back for me, will ya? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]For my website go to http://user.aphs.sa.edu.au/~ltalbotsmith/index.htm

Is anything spelt wrong?

And tell me if you want the picture or even the reference removed, I kinda forgot to ask and I'll do that ASAP if you want.

Note: Very bad photo of me, but then, they always are. Maybe it's just me.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My Mum's maiden name was Talbot.

Silver's a rather boring metal. It doesn't blow up and it barely reacts with anything.

Manganese...now there's a metal with character (both ionic and covalent). Permanganate can dissolve things.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:gives Sa'ar strange looks:


You chemists...[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Carbon's fun too, but in a Tinker Toys/geometrical appeal way more than in a pyrotechnic way. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]But carbon isn't a metal.

[quote:post_uid0]:gives Sa'ar strange looks:


You chemists...[/quote:post_uid0]

It's the fumes.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I like silver for the colour and the jewellery side of things.

I have LOTS of silver jewellery.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hematite is fun for jewelry. Remember anything about hematite, there, Stevis? *runs*[/color:post_uid0]

[Zeke]

[quote:post_uid0="FatMat426"][color=#000000:post_uid0][b:post_uid0]Zeke,[/b:post_uid0] I want that shirt!
(& it'd better be size L)
:D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oddly enough, it is, even though I'm a size M. Hmm.

You can't have *that* one, but I'm going into the T-shirt business when I get the time. I was originally going to use CafePress, but they recently upped their fees dramatically (they were already pretty high), and changed certain policies. What I'm going to do instead is look for a bulk dealer and sell that way instead. At some point I'll start a thread asking what sort of products y'all would be interested in.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Remember anything about hematite, there, Stevis?[/quote:post_uid0]

*prods Swiss-cheese memory* It's red? Got iron in it?[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Red? Hmmm ...

*quick image google*

Yeah, thought so: kinda metallic black. Iron's right, but apparently not an oxide.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's only red when you cut it.

Once you polish it it stays black.

According to the dude I bought it off, anyway.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hematite has two allotropes: a red form and a shiny black form.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Haematite?! It's not made of blood, is it? Is it? :shivers:[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Prolly where the name comes from. ;)

Nice on jewellery, but heavy.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Blood-based jewelry. :shudders: How... vampiric.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]mmm, blood- I mean jewellery! yeah, uh, mmm, jewellery.[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]How's Italy? Get a Lamborghini back for me, will ya? :D [/quote:post_uid0]
So, do you want to get it back in the Netherlands, or should I just leave it here, which is, I think, closer to your place? :D

Chemistry? That's school. This is vacation. I'm gonna go. :p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, you could always ship it over here to singapore :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oops. :O

Er... 17? I completely forgot about your Lamborghini. I think it's still in Italy. Forgive me? Please?


:p[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Awwwww :sad face:

Nevermind, I'll just pick it up the next time I visit Italy, then ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, I can't say I've ever met anyone here. If I did I'd probably run away screaming (no offence).

If anyone hasn't noticed, there is a photo of me on my profile. It's pretty rubbish, but it'll have to do until I can get a decent picture of me scanned in. I really, honestly don't normally look that zombie-like. That's just the dried frog pills.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I really, honestly don't normally look that zombie-like.[/quote:post_uid0]

Braaaaiiiiiiiin...[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually, I can do a pretty mean Igor sometimes. Getting the hunch AND the shuffle just right is hard though...

Two hearts. Heh.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Actually, I can do a pretty mean Igor sometimes. Getting the hunch AND the shuffle just right is hard though...[/quote:post_uid0]

And the appearing-behind-someone-just-as-they're-about-to-call-you?

[quote:post_uid0]Two hearts. Heh.[/quote:post_uid0]

And a dog called Thcrapth.

*currently reading Carpe Jugulum*[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Two hearts. Heh.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]What, you're Centauri? :D


Terry Pratchett is fun![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Terry Pratchett is fun![/quote:post_uid0]

Indeed. I have a character on an IRC Free-Form Role Play channel who's a troll who thinks he's a vampire. Name: Goethite. He's immense fun to play, since I can make fun of all the...how did Terry put it?...all the lah-di-dah vampire who agonise about living forever and looking cool.

Real vampires agonise about making other people agonise.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Celebrities spring to mind. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Like Bram Stoker...or rather Francis Ford Coppola. Whoever's responsible for that bloody awful movie.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]But vampires are cool. I want to be a vampire. Then I'd have an excuse to sleep all day and only come online at night. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That can be arranged *toothy grin*

But are you prepared to stay young and beautiful for the rest of your unlife?[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What's not to like about being young and beautiful for all eternity? :)


Strangely last night I had a dream about vampires. Delenn was one, and so was I. I think listening to Radiohead's "We Suck Young Blood" all day was not a very good idea.

Kind of reminds me of that Philip Larkin poem (was it Philip Larkin?)... "The women I clubbed with sex! / I broke them open like meringues."[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]What's not to like about being young and beautiful for all eternity?[/quote:post_uid0]

Maybe young and mysteriously handsome.

[quote:post_uid0]Strangely last night I had a dream about vampires. Delenn was one, and so was I.[/quote:post_uid0]

Who were you preying on?

I had a dream about starring in an aquatic version of Chicago. In a wheelchair. There were speedboat chases.

I think I was renting a basement suite from Wil Wheaton at the time.

The weirdness you see on a daily basis is only a small percentage that leaks through from my core of weirdness. Living inside my head is a strange experience (which I suppose is why there's nobody else in here).[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]TO answer your first question, there's a reason why Delenn was a vampire as well ;)

You're not weird, Sa'ar. Read my blog. Now THOSE dreams are weird. And usually gross in a Hannibal kind of way.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]You're not weird, Sa'ar.[/quote:post_uid0]

I beg to differ.

[quote:post_uid0]Read my blog.[/quote:post_uid0]

I do, but I'm usually looking for a namecheck.

[quote:post_uid0]Now THOSE dreams are weird. And usually gross in a Hannibal kind of way.[/quote:post_uid0]

Well, I can't say trying to drag a thousand elephants over the Alps would be gross, unless they fell over a cliff....oh. That Hannibal.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]I do, but I'm usually looking for a namecheck.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Namecheck? :confusicated:


I once had a dream where a bunch of aliens were slowly deboning Aeryn Sun (FS character, for those not in the know) to see how long it would take her to die. [i:post_uid0]Deboning.[/i:post_uid0]Now THAT is a weird, twisted dream. It was horrible :shudders:[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Namecheck? :confusicated:[/quote:post_uid0]

Checking to see a reference to my name.

[quote:post_uid0]I once had a dream where a bunch of aliens were slowly deboning Aeryn Sun (FS character, for those not in the know) to see how long it would take her to die. [/quote:post_uid0]

Dear lord...that is horrible.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ah :think: enlightenment!
I've got a sick psyche, don't I? My subconscious is a freaky place.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]I've got a sick psyche, don't I? My subconscious is a freaky place.[/quote:post_uid0]

Remind me never to go in there.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes. Stay out of my subconscious, all of you! This includes Nan. ;)[/color:post_uid0]