TAM 5.5 Picture Thread

El_Spectre · Feb 10, 2008

I don't expect y'all to appreciate this.... but damn, it's weird being the "short one" ...

chillzero · Feb 10, 2008

OK, I finally worked through my pics, and have uploaded smaller versions of each. Anyone wanting better copies (or wanting anything removed from public view) can PM me.

The skeptics day out at the Everglades and Dania Beach:
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7605486

The conference itself, the party after, and the open day at JREF:
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7605437

(ETA: If you are looking for names, etc - they are in the comments by each photo - I didn't rename each photo to identify them)

Some of my wildlife pics from Florida:
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/7605487
(This one won't be publicly viewable for very long)

Geek Goddess · Feb 10, 2008

You have quite a knack for catching people in wonderful candid shots, Chill!

hcmom · Feb 10, 2008

The white peacock is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!

a.real.girl · Feb 10, 2008

Chill- your photos are lovely! I especially love the pics from the JREF, I didn't take too many that day, and I've been trying to explain the globe in the library for two weeks. Now I don't have to!

Thanks!

Hokulele · Feb 10, 2008

Geek Goddess said:
"Skeptics of unusual size."

heheh

Horatius said:
I doubt that they exist.

Geek Goddess said:
Ottle's pictures were focused on three guys that were well over six feet tall.

That is, I think that was what she was photographing.

GG, have you ever read The Princess Bride?

Wowbagger · Feb 10, 2008

hcmom said:
Y'know, I thought when Jeff was describing the "Holy Macrame", it didn't sound much like "macrame", and now that I've seen a few pictures, I gotta tell you, it's weaving, not macrame....

Behold: The Paranormal "Macrame" (or whatever it is)!!

hcmom · Feb 10, 2008

It may be holy, or paranormal, and it certainly is a pretty shade of blue, it's just not macrame, no matter what the maker called it...

bluecollarscientist · Feb 14, 2008

Geek Goddess said:
I enjoyed the article. Anyone know who the author is?

elaine said:
I'm having a forgetful moment. I know I spoke with the blue collar guy. Trying to remember his name, though.

It's Jeff. Unless it's a scientologist packing a lawyer whose asking, in which case I am George W. Bush.

mrund said:
Blue Collar Scientist lives in Alaska and programs NASA telescopes to look for asteroids. Very friendly short skinny dude in his 40s, sat on the table corner left of me wearing a checked shirt at the Mexican place on Saturday night. He has the excellent taste to like my blog. (-;

I do like your blog, Martin. Or, rather, I used to like your blog, until you started to add years^h^h^h^h^h months to my age! Forties indeed. I'll have you know, I have ten more months before I'm in my forties, and I intend to squeeze them for all they are worth! ;-)

Seriously for a moment - the gist of that is right, but NASA grants PIs to look for asteroids. I've been a contractor for a few of the PIs. So I'm a few steps removed from actually doing anything as glamorous as programming NASA telescopes.

elaine said:
OF COURSE!! That was driving me crazy. Really nice guy and we'll be seeing him soon, here on the threads.

Nice guy? You'll remember saying that when you find out what I'm really like.

Anyway, I'm finally back home from my month-long east coast travels, and I wanted to stop in here and say "hi," it was great to meet a bunch of you at TAM. Thanks for posting the highly embarrassing pictures of me (the ones with a bunch of pizza stuffed in my mouth in particular), and for linking to my blog entry about TAM 5.5.

Cleon · Feb 14, 2008

Hokulele said:
GG, have you ever read The Princess Bride?

BTW, Hokulele, your mom totally rocks!

Gravy · Feb 14, 2008

Hokulele · Feb 14, 2008

Cleon said:
BTW, Hokulele, your mom totally rocks!

Heh, I was talking with her on the phone last weekend and she was rattling on about all the cool people she met in Florida. She has also been warned that if she brings any baby pictures of me to TAM 6, she will be sleeping in the bath tub.

chillzero · Feb 14, 2008

Gravy said:
Here are (I think) all the 5.5 photo and video links in this thread

<snip out perfectly consolidated list>

You just can't help yourself, can you Gravy?

Geek Goddess · Feb 14, 2008

Hokulele said:
Heh, I was talking with her on the phone last weekend and she was rattling on about all the cool people she met in Florida. She has also been warned that if she brings any baby pictures of me to TAM 6, she will be sleeping in the bath tub.

What was her Paypal account, again?

BTW, everyone, some of the pics on my site are ones I took, and some are ones I totally copied from other people's sites (since I never have any pics of myself for some reason...). If there is a pic you took on my site, and you don't like it or need credit, PM me.

Gravy · Feb 15, 2008

Hokulele said:
Heh, I was talking with her on the phone last weekend and she was rattling on about all the cool people she met in Florida. She has also been warned that if she brings any baby pictures of me to TAM 6, she will be sleeping in the bath tub.

I had no frikkin' idea that was your MOM. I HATE YOU. I had lunch with her and didn't even get to rag on you. I asked her about the state of science education/presentation on TV. She laughed.

brodski · Feb 15, 2008

chillzero said:
You just can't help yourself, can you Gravy?

SHH! Don't aggravate him, he'll debunk us out of existence!

Hamradioguy · Feb 15, 2008

Hokulele said:
Heh, I was talking with her on the phone last weekend and she was rattling on about all the cool people she met in Florida. She has also been warned that if she brings any baby pictures of me to TAM 6, she will be sleeping in the bath tub.

Sorry- bath tub already occupied.

Cleon · Feb 15, 2008

That has to be the cutest picture of Moe I've ever seen.

And all her pictures are cute.

hcmom · Feb 15, 2008

Hmmmm... if Gravy is to be believed, I didn't put a link to my 5.5 pics up here...

http://picasaweb.google.com/hcmomof4/TAM55

(A couple of the pics in there are actually other people's, so if you think you've seen them before, you probably have)

kittynh · Feb 15, 2008

oh no Chip has the cutest photograph of Moe EVER... but he'll have to scan it. Loon took it.

Hokulele, your mom told me this story about being in Tokyo and pretending NOT to speak Japanese ... police were involved.

NOT that I would repeat it as I am a mother myself. I know which side I'm on!

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