Micro Blogmeet
Me and Nikki ventured into the city last night to meet Tom, aka Dragon, for a pint or three. He's been working in Dublin for a couple of months, and when he announced that he was coming on his blog late last year I had suggested he stay with me for a bit, but that didn't happen in the end, so I had suggested via email that we meet for a pint. Things being as they are, it took until now for me to get my arse in gear and get around to doing it, in the last week that he's here.
It always surprises me (although it shouldn't really) that every time I have met someone in "real life" that I had previously only known from reading their blog or them commenting on my blog, that everyone in the little blogging community that I am part of are universally lovely people.
We talked about blogging, bloggers, babies, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5 (all the b's!), all sorts of crap. We discussed how we were both at "Wolf 359 - The Alliance" in 1997, and how we both drank copious amounts of alcohol in the bar with Gareth Thomas throughout the weekend, but somehow never met each other (incidentally, Tom also met Pix at the same convention, which I thought was also interesting, I wonder how many other bloggers were there as well?).
We talked games! San Andreas (and "pimping" therein), WoW, online gaming, leaderboards, offline gaming, the Wii and how some bloke lost weight playing it, etc.
We talked work. That didn't last very long.
All in all, a lovely little night out with a lovely bloke (and my lovely missus, of course, who I am surprised wasn't geeked to death by most of the conversation), someone I will definitely look up next time I'm in Blighty. I only wish it hadn't been on a schoolnight and we could have had a bit more to drink! :-)
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I concur! Great to meet both of you and you were polite enough to put up with my wittering on.
Good find on that Wolf 359 link. Had forgotten about the fire alarm. Jerry Doyle was by far the best guest on stage and I vaguely remember Jason Carter parading the guitar that got auctioned. I think Pix might have pictures somewhere too...
Posted by: Dragon | January 25, 2007 12:35 PM
I must say you weren't the only one wittering on, especially after the hot whiskey had lubricated my vocal cords...
The best thing (apart from Mr. Doyle) at W359 was Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas acting out a scene from a B5 episode (I'm not sure which one) where Katsulas did an hilarious impression of (the late) Richard Biggs.
That and err... Claudia Christians camel-toe on the Saturday. Ahem.
Posted by: Matt | January 25, 2007 1:15 PM
How do you know I wasnt geeked to death??
I am just an excellent actress.
Posted by: NKL | January 25, 2007 4:16 PM
Erm... I know you weren't geeked to death by virtue of the fact that you are, in fact, still alive. :-)
Posted by: Matt | January 25, 2007 5:13 PM
So what I am hearing is that you never mentioned me?
Posted by: Adrian | January 26, 2007 12:11 AM
If your name began with B then we might have done.
Posted by: Dragon | January 26, 2007 11:53 AM
yay!!
Posted by: Babs | January 27, 2007 11:07 PM