TAM6 - what do you look like?

DiskoVilante said:
This is one of my favorite pictures of me. My friend took it and I don't recall it being taken nor do I recall being in that pose. Also, I was not drunk either.

I'll find a normal picture of me one day and post that later.
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Dude, you weren't kidding... you do look like your avatar... if Parker and Stone did a cartoon with you in it, that is.

Cool!
 
kittynh: Thanks for the compliment. I am single (and straight) but I'm a loner. Outside of maybe a dozen friends who've known me since childhood, I don't socialize, and I don't date at all anymore.

I had actually registered for the JREF cruise last year, but backed out as the date neared because the thought of being on a boat with so many other people for that long just freaked me out too bad.

Getting that shot made was very difficult. It was taken by one of those friends, who's a professional photographer. It broke some barriers for me, though.

However, as part of my ongoing effort to combat shyness, that same photographer will be doing some shots of me for the '09 skepdudes calendar in a few days. We have some good ideas, so if I make it in, well, you can, uh... see more of me there. ;)

UnrepentantSinner, there are no candid shots of me. I'm serious, I hate cameras and I don't allow my picture to be taken.

But I'm glad I had that one, because it really feels good not to have to worry that someone will read a post of mine here, figure out who I am, and have me fired. Working for fundies is no fun, in a lot of ways, if you're a skeptic and an atheist.
 
Piggy said:
kittynh: Thanks for the compliment. I am single (and straight) but I'm a loner. Outside of maybe a dozen friends who've known me since childhood, I don't socialize, and I don't date at all anymore.

I had actually registered for the JREF cruise last year, but backed out as the date neared because the thought of being on a boat with so many other people for that long just freaked me out too bad.

Getting that shot made was very difficult. It was taken by one of those friends, who's a professional photographer. It broke some barriers for me, though.

However, as part of my ongoing effort to combat shyness, that same photographer will be doing some shots of me for the '09 skepdudes calendar in a few days. We have some good ideas, so if I make it in, well, you can, uh... see more of me there. ;)

UnrepentantSinner, there are no candid shots of me. I'm serious, I hate cameras and I don't allow my picture to be taken.

But I'm glad I had that one, because it really feels good not to have to worry that someone will read a post of mine here, figure out who I am, and have me fired. Working for fundies is no fun, in a lot of ways, if you're a skeptic and an atheist.
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There is, I promise you, no nicer, gentler, easier-to-get-along-with-however-shy-you-are bunch of people than the JREFers. I know several people who were petrified before TAM, for exactly the same reasons as you, and they since said what a fantastic breath of fresh air it was.

It's not like normal social situations. Apart from anything, everyone is a giant geek :D
 
{sigh} Okay okay, why don't I start with a description and come up with a decent photo later?

As a friend once put it when his 12 year old son asked how he was going to recognize me at the airport when they were going to pick me up.

"Son, I hate having to put it to you this way but... look for a short cute woman with big boobs" :rolleyes:
 
tkingdoll said:
There is, I promise you, no nicer, gentler, easier-to-get-along-with-however-shy-you-are bunch of people than the JREFers. I know several people who were petrified before TAM, for exactly the same reasons as you, and they since said what a fantastic breath of fresh air it was.

It's not like normal social situations. Apart from anything, everyone is a giant geek :D
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Yeah, I know. If I can get along with anyone it'll be this crowd.

Thing is, though, any group of people freaks me out. There are too many variables. It adds up and I get nervous, paranoid, and confused. Gotta get away.

I even do that at family events like weddings, reunions, and funerals, and I know everybody there. I just go take a walk or something.

Just how my brain is wired, I reckon.
 
Many of you know me, but may have conveniently forgotten what I look like. Some of you don't know me . . . yet.

~~ Paul
 

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seismic_cowgirl said:
{sigh} Okay okay, why don't I start with a description and come up with a decent photo later?

As a friend once put it when his 12 year old son asked how he was going to recognize me at the airport when they were going to pick me up.

"Son, I hate having to put it to you this way but... look for a short cute woman with big boobs" :rolleyes:
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Is your friend Bill Engvall?
 
Piggy said:
Yeah, I know. If I can get along with anyone it'll be this crowd.

Thing is, though, any group of people freaks me out. There are too many variables. It adds up and I get nervous, paranoid, and confused. Gotta get away.

I even do that at family events like weddings, reunions, and funerals, and I know everybody there. I just go take a walk or something.

Just how my brain is wired, I reckon.
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Heya, Piggy--
I won't be at this TAM, but was at TAM2 and TAM3. Most of those who met me would say I am quite social... but that was only possible because of how comfortable this family is. At that, I still had to disappear a couple of times (in the TAM2 video, during some dancing you can see a shape outside the window; that would be me). The great thing is, you can disappear for a bit and nobody here is gonna look at you like you have three eyes.

And even when there are big group things going on, there are enough people like you or me who are more comfortable on the periphery, so there are small comfortable clusters as well as the larger group.

And there will be the occasional individual who will simply rock your world. It will feel like you have been friends with this person forever, from about ten seconds in.

So be yourself, and take your walks when you need to; you'll fit right in.

:lizard:
 
There are lots of places to "be alone" at TAMs. Just go to your room and relax some.

No one will mind.

Paul A. is it me or is there a whole lot less of you than before?
 
Mercutio said:
So be yourself, and take your walks when you need to; you'll fit right in.
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Thanks for the pointers.

The one thing I can't do, tho, is be myself. That doesn't work. No one wants to be anywhere near that person, and that person doesn't want to be anywhere near anyone else.

Instead, I'll do what I do on other such occasions -- like accompanying my mother on a tour of Spain and turning out to be the only one who speaks Spanish -- imagine a character in my mind who is comfortable in that situation and play that character every second I'm not alone.

It's amazing how well that works. It's the only way I was able to teach for so many years.
 
Piggy said:
Thanks for the pointers.

The one thing I can't do, tho, is be myself. That doesn't work. No one wants to be anywhere near that person, and that person doesn't want to be anywhere near anyone else.

Instead, I'll do what I do on other such occasions -- like accompanying my mother on a tour of Spain and turning out to be the only one who speaks Spanish -- imagine a character in my mind who is comfortable in that situation and play that character every second I'm not alone.

It's amazing how well that works. It's the only way I was able to teach for so many years.
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Hey, if you can't be yourself, be Piggy. That works. Hell, I was Mercutio when I needed to be, and he's a pretty outgoing guy. They'll even let you put it on your nametag.

Besides--that character who is comfortable actually is you. Just a little-used facet of you. Take it from a behaviorist--you are what you do.
 
DcTurner said:
Thankfully it's a piercing (assuming you're talking about the dot on my lip?)... Anything else is news to me :D
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As a very white guy who spent too much time in southern Sun, I feel compelled to point out potential melanomas when I see them. ;)

Actually, when I'm not wearing my gold hoop earring I wear an onyx stud and in a number of photos I've taken, it looks like a giant mole or cancer depending on how much glare the flash creates.

Piggy said:
Dude, you weren't kidding... you do look like your avatar... if Parker and Stone did a cartoon with you in it, that is.
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Agreed. DV, I'm not a mouse with an ear on my back. Your avatar captures you perfectly.

Geek Goddess said:
Look again. It's a Keystone. I know, I raised him better than that, but he's broke.
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Hah. As someone who currently drinks Natty for the sole reason of alcohol to cost ratio I completely understand. He seems to be the most level headed inibriate in that photo, so good for him.

seismic_cowgirl said:
a short cute woman with big boobs
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So you look like 60% of your fellow Skepchicks (the other 25% being tall with big boobs and that last 15% being distractingly pretty of face)?

Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Many of you know me, but may have conveniently forgotten what I look like. Some of you don't know me . . . yet.
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Note to TAM newbies, the Unibomber was captured a number of years ago. Do not call the FBI.

Oh, and Piggy, either give up the demure B.S. or request that no one take a photo of you now. We had a member and TAM attendee who had an issue with cyberstalking and while a number of photos were taken of said member at TAM 2 and 3, they never made it on the Internet IIRC. If you are concerned about your job, that's one thing, but if you're just shy or have issues about being photographed publically, tough noggies. I'm shy too, but the Internet is the outlet to my Id that I suppress.
 
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I wanna see the short lady with the big boobs...;)
As for me, you can see me in my profile picture.
Unfortunately no TAM for me. I live too far a way.:cry:
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Oh, and Piggy, either give up the demure B.S. or request that no one take a photo of you now. We had a member and TAM attendee who had an issue with cyberstalking and while a number of photos were taken of said member at TAM 2 and 3, they never made it on the Internet IIRC. If you are concerned about your job, that's one thing, but if you're just shy or have issues about being photographed publically, tough noggies. I'm shy too, but the Internet is the outlet to my Id that I suppress.
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Sorry, didn't know I was being demure. Just explaining why no other pix. (Posting that one seemed a bit odd, given the photos others have posted.) If I'm at TAM, I'm not going to try to control other folks' use of cameras. It would be impossible, besides rude and selfish.

I recall that other JREF event threads have honored other folks' requests not to have photos posted, so that's no biggie. And if my image is on someone else's camera somewhere whoknowswhere... I don't care.

The big thing for me is that in 3 weeks I won't have to worry about being fired for being a skeptic. So hey, don't rain on my parade here! Putting that little photo up there is kindof a big deal for me.
 
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Pictures of me are too easy to find... :D

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