. From commentor GBear: Twin Cities meet-up was nice. Six Juicers + one spouse. I’m going to embarrass myself by forgetting two of the names, but the folks I can remember were imonlylurking, newdealfarmgrrrlll, and Schlemizel plus spouse (she has the pictures). One of the guys recently returned from a teaching gig in China* so …
Meetups and social events
Open Thread: Minneapolis/St. Paul Area Meet-Up TODAY
Per commentors ImOnlyLurking and GBear: Best kept secret on Balloon Juice is that there’s a Twin Cities meetup at Shamrocks Grille at 995 West 7th Street in St. Paul at 5:00pm. So far there are two of us confirmed to be there… It’s been popping up in various threads for the last few days but …
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Open Thread and OKC Balloon-Juice Meetup
I am thinking about (VERY preliminary stages) a meet-up in OKC. I think the Tapwerks Ale House has a lot of potential. Possibly in a couple weeks to a month time. Input would be greatly appreciated. Also, open thread. Update: And we now have “Cheney for Wyoming” ads running on the site! That’s going to …
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Good Morning!
Here’s a fresh thread for you, with some light reading. http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/speeches_testimonies/2013_08_09_the_nsa_story.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obama-weighs-in-on-information-gathering/2013/08/09/1793dd18-013d-11e3-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/2013-08-09-AdministrationWhitePaperSection215.pdf There will be a test later. Also, I am kind of half-way vaguely considering a meetup in OKC. Is there any interest?
Friday Afternoon Open Thread: Proof of Life
Picture from our first (of many, I hope) Boston-area meetup this Wednesday, at the Watch City Brewing Co, before most of us moved on to Lizzy’s Ice Cream. Photo courtesy of commentor The Conster (in the green & white shirt). I’m towards the back on the left-hand side, in the hat, and the Spousal Unit …
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Open Thread: Boston Area Meet-Up Tomorrow
So we’re having the first Boston / RI / southern NH meet-up tomorrow, Wednesday, at Watch City Brewing in Waltham, starting around 7-ish. Commentor and instigator Lahke has printed out a picture of Tunch to identify our table, and I’ve got some green balloons. A dozen or so people have said they plan to join …
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Open Thread: Meet-Ups
From commentor CaseyL: The Seattle BJ crew had a meetup Saturday. MikeJ, Yatsuno, Opie_jeanne, PsiFighter+17, and more whose names I cannot remember, were there. We drank many toasts to General Stuck and Tunch. I’ve put the pix on Photobucket, and here is a link. *********** Thanks to commentor Lahke, Boston-area Juicers will get together this …