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See you in a bit

by DougJ|  November 13, 20112:31 pm| 24 Comments

This post is in: Readership Capture

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On my way down to Walker’s. I’ll have on pinstriped pants and a navy trench coat. I like eerily like former Congressman Patrick Kennedy.

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  1. 1.

    scav

    November 13, 2011 at 2:34 pm

    I want GPS-enabled pings and then dodgy recordings that keep dropping out just when things get interesting.

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 13, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    I like eerily like former Congressman Patrick Kennedy.

    Stay away from the Ambien.

  3. 3.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 13, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    I like eerily like former Congressman Patrick Kennedy.

    Stay away from the Amb1en.

  4. 4.

    jafg

    November 13, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Which bathroom stall will you be in? Hope you never forgot the listerine.

  5. 5.

    RandyH

    November 13, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    You’re a redhead? Who knew?

  6. 6.

    BGinCHI

    November 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    I waited on the bullet train at Union Station, but it never came.

    Thanks Obama.

  7. 7.

    MaximusNYC

    November 13, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    Have fun, folks. I won’t make it. The F train in Brooklyn is shut down for construction this weekend, which means a jammed-to-the-gills shuttle bus instead, and I already went thru that nightmare once on Friday night.

  8. 8.

    Suffern ACE

    November 13, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    I’ve been grounded.

  9. 9.

    Valdivia

    November 13, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    so upset I wont be thee. Still.

  10. 10.

    Linda Featheringill

    November 13, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    You guys have fun. We in the flyover country want a full report.

  11. 11.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    November 13, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    If anyone posts here from the bar the sheer geekiness will create a nerd infundibulum above lower Manhattan. I wonder what the geek version of “Zul” is.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Mary

    November 13, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    Please, please, please blog the meetup live! I’m building an email blast for a client this afternoon and have no other life.

  13. 13.

    Bruuuuce

    November 13, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Would have liked to be there but got caught between the rock (children) and the hard place (better half) and did a week’s worth of grocery shopping. Listening to the Giants and hoisting one in your general direction!

  14. 14.

    Nicole

    November 13, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    What a fun meetup. Thanks to everyone for the great conversation! And it’s nice to have faces to put to names. (Though you’ll have to keep reminding me, as I’m really, really bad at remembering names and faces. Politics was never going to be a career option for me based on that alone.) Lovely afternoon!

  15. 15.

    Johannes

    November 13, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    La Caterina and I had a great time meeting fellow Juicers (DougJ’s eerie resemblance to Patrick Kennedy would be eerier if he resembled Patrick Kennedy, but we found him anyway).

    The conversation was excellent, the company congenial, and I even met a colleague from a decade back. However, Needz Moar Tunch!

    Thank you.

  16. 16.

    chopper

    November 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    when we went around the table introducing ourselves i was so close to saying i was matoko chan.

  17. 17.

    Johannes

    November 13, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    @chopper: We *so* would have believed you, man!

    (Really great to have met you!)

  18. 18.

    PurpleGirl

    November 13, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    It was good to meet everyone. I enjoyed it a lot.

  19. 19.

    handsmile

    November 13, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    First of all, many thanks to Doug for proposing this gathering during his visit to New York City. It was a welcome initiative. I do suspect, however, that a career as a stunt double for Patrick Kennedy will not be as rewarding or successful for him as the one he now practices.

    Second of all, what a impressive group of characters! It was a delight to be among the corporeal presences (rather than the virtual) of such thoughtful and engaging people.

    I am sorry only that due to the large number of attendees and the ever-lengthening table necessary to accommodate us all, I did not get a chance to converse with more of you. I very much enjoyed wide-ranging discussions with: celiadexter, chopper, davenyc, jgabriel, johannes, nicole, purplegirl, sfinny, and will. A true pleasure to have met each of you.

    I’d surely recommend, if at all possible, that clusters of Balloon Juicers in other areas arrange similar occasions. Good company, good conversation, good food and drink is a combination always to be savored.

  20. 20.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Oh, and Griffin apologizes for hogging all the muffins.

  21. 21.

    Samara Morgan

    November 14, 2011 at 6:06 am

    @chopper: they wouldnt have believed you.
    you dont make the IQ gradient to be me.
    :)

  22. 22.

    celiadexter

    November 14, 2011 at 7:21 am

    It was great meeting everyone — we need to do this more often! Now I’ll have to be less of a lurker since I know who some of us are…

  23. 23.

    Paul in KY

    November 14, 2011 at 9:04 am

    It would be nice if Kay or Zandar could get us together sometime up in the Cinn. area. We have several juicers from S. Ohio/N. Kentucky.

    Your meetup sounded great!

  24. 24.

    chopper

    November 14, 2011 at 9:22 am

    @Samara Morgan:

    after about 10 beers i think i could have pulled it off. ‘man, who’s that dude at the end of the table garbling a bunch of nonsense about shit? he sounds like…’

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