Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued 
My wife and I are here at TAM8, and so far things have been a blast. The Science-Based Medicine Workshops yesterday went quite well, and I'm told that my talk actually wasn't half-bad. In the meantime, after the serious misstep of Pepsigeddon, which has claimed some of my fellow ScienceBloggers, ScienceBlogs finally did the right thing and got rid of the PepsiCo blog. All is well. Well, not quite, but at least all doesn't suck the way it did for a couple of days.
In the meantime, there is the Amazing Meeting. I've been informed that I actually have fans. I know, I know, it's really hard to believe. I still have trouble believing it even after five years. Even more odd, these fans want a meetup. Or at least some of them do. So, I'll tell you what. We'll try to do something early this evening or tomorrow sometime if sufficient interest is shown. Either come up to me at the meeting, drop me an e-mail, or leave a comment here, and I'll leave an announcement on my Twitter account (@oracknows) later today. My wife also informs me that she's interested in meeting skeptical nurses.
Off to the meeting. If there's wifi (there wasn't yesterday other than the ridiculously expensive by the hour wifi, but the meeting hadn't started yet), I may even drop a blog post or two. If not, I'll actually take the day off. Shocking, I know, but I do do it from time to time.
Comments
You have groupies? Awesome. Do they have a name, like "The Insolents" or something?
Posted by: Xplodyncow | July 9, 2010 10:55 AM
Polite Scott and I are interested. We have the SGU dinner tonight- tomorrow might work better for us.
Posted by: karl withakay | July 9, 2010 11:02 AM
I'm pouting because I'm not there. Next year.
"The Insolents"! I like that.
I heard via twitter that your presentation was excellent. Would it make a blog post?
Posted by: Liz Ditz | July 9, 2010 12:53 PM
Did you see this, via Ben Goldacre:
"This isn't the first time Seed has sacrificed editorial independence"
http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/jul/09/seed-editorial-independence-scienceblogs
Posted by: Felix | July 9, 2010 3:30 PM
after the serious misstep of Pepsigeddon, which has claimed some of my fellow ScienceBloggers,
Still peddling this non-sequitur, eh Orac? How sad!
Posted by: Bite Me | July 9, 2010 8:55 PM
A Saturday meetup would be excellent.
Posted by: Justin | July 9, 2010 9:25 PM
Also down for Saturday!
Posted by: Alas | July 10, 2010 3:01 AM
I blow strawberries at your general direction!
Posted by: Chris | July 10, 2010 3:43 AM
Wish I was there. A fan.
Posted by: Everbleed | July 10, 2010 11:07 AM
Please ask your wife to consider a blog for skeptical nurses. I feel like I am the only one sometimes, only able to express my atheism and belief in evidence based medicine to a very few. And those few are a couple of doctors. Nurses seem to be very susceptible to irrational beliefs in pseudo-medicine.
Posted by: Becky | July 10, 2010 1:11 PM
I'm a fan, Orac. If one can be a fan of a box of blinking lights. Your snark is an inspiration to us all.
Posted by: C0nc0rdance | July 10, 2010 1:25 PM