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The NYC millionth comment party has been scheduled! ScienceBlogs has rented out the top floor of the Delancey and will be providing pizza and a bar tab up to about $600 (drinks over that amount will not be covered) -- FREE! The Delancey will be suspending their usual cover charge, just for us.
ScienceBlogs' NYC area Millionth Comment party:
Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Time: 7pm ET until ???
Location: the top floor of The Delancey Bar and Nightclub, 168 Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side [map]
SciBling hosts: ME and some of my ScienceBlogs colleagues, PhysioProf and Jake Young, and a special guest appearance by my friend and former ScienceBlogs colleague, Carl Zimmer, who now writes his blog at Discover magazine. Also present will be some of the wonderful people who provide technical support for us at Seed Media Group: Ginny Hughes, Erin Johnson, and Logan Elsass.
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Sorry, looks like I'll have to stay home. Swamped as usual.
Posted by: Carl Zimmer | October 6, 2008 12:08 PM
Have fun! :D
Posted by: Jessica Palmer | October 6, 2008 1:49 PM
Will the bar show the Presidential Debate? I want to get to better know a SciBlogger, but I'm a campaign junkie right now.
Posted by: Maria | October 6, 2008 3:26 PM
actually, we are working on getting a TV now so we can all watch the debates. i'll be posting an update tomorrow about this and i sympathize! i also want to watch the debates!
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | October 6, 2008 3:37 PM
by the way, don't forget that the party starts at 7pm ET while the debate starts at 9pm ET!
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | October 6, 2008 4:05 PM
Yes! Thanks for the reminder. I just wanted to know what my evening would look like. Pointless? A bit. But that's what I do while my simulation is running and monopolizing my CPU's juice :)
Posted by: Maria | October 6, 2008 5:24 PM
I went to the 1,000,000 comment party. I didn't expect to, but I made it there anyway and I had a good time. The delancey bar was a nice venue.
Posted by: JPS | October 8, 2008 10:32 AM