…and this is a 
A busy few weeks
Category: Personal
Posted on: May 25, 2008 10:37 AM, by PZ Myers
Hey, classes are over … aren't I supposed to be lazing in a hammock, slacking off until September? Instead, it looks like I'm going to be prepping and giving lectures for the next couple of weeks. Here's the schedule:
On 28-30 May, I'll be attending IEDG 2008: Integrating Evolution, Development, and Genomics at Berkeley. Look at the schedule on this thing: there are some phenomenal speakers at this meeting, and I'm really looking forward to several days of solid science. I'm giving the last talk of the last day at this event.
On 2 June, at 7:00 pm, I'll be doing a public lecture/discussion at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle for the Northwest Science Writers Association. Science writers are wonderful people, so I'll be looking forward to meeting this bunch.
On 6 June, at 6:30 pm, I'l be speaking to the Seattle Society for Sensible Explanations. Seating is limited, so you'll need to RSVP soon. A skeptics group in Seattle? Where were these people when I lived there?
I hope to see some of you there at this little tour. Later this summer I'll be in Las Vegas, Denver, and Atlanta, too — I'm not exactly vacationing this year.
Comments
"A skeptics group in Seattle? Where were these people when I lived there?"
Some of us freethinker types were probably still one state over, in a place where skepticism is an endangered meme. (You may have heard of Idaho?) Although I'm not a member of SSSE, so maybe 'us' is the wrong word to use there.
May the skies clear for your visit, Doctor Myers. May you enjoy a clear view of Mount Ranier! May the great light in the sky not be a sign from our angry rain gods! And may strangers buy you whichever caffeinated beverages you prefer in great abundance.
The MadPanda, FCD
Posted by: The MadPanda | May 25, 2008 11:25 AM
What, no visit to Markham? No one ever comes to Markham.
Posted by: Dennis | May 25, 2008 11:26 AM
Coming to Atlanta, the buckle of the Bible belt!
Recently the legislature passed a law allowing academic study of the bible in public schools. The first pro-atheist law I think they have ever passed. Can you imagine, an academic study of the bible, contradictions, genocide and all.
I am interested in attending your talk. Please give us some details.
Posted by: d simpson | May 25, 2008 12:04 PM
Berkeley huh? I'm about an hour north, and there's a big CFI/Skeptic's community in SF. There's a Drinking Skeptically event in the City on the 28th. I've been meaning to make it to one of those, maybe this could be in impetus :-)
Posted by: Robert Thille | May 25, 2008 12:05 PM
On Father's day weekend, just a peg-legged stroll from where I be, on the Vallejo Waterfront, thar'll be a Pirate Festival.
Posted by: Ken Cope | May 25, 2008 12:16 PM
I agree with Dennis. Ontario, PZ, please!
Posted by: Chaz | May 25, 2008 12:51 PM
Last talk on the last day eh? I hope your fire-breathing tentacles don't stir up an eruption of controversy among the two people who'll still be at the conference.
Well anyway that's how astrophysics conferences work.
Posted by: Johnny Vector | May 25, 2008 12:56 PM
Where are and when are you speaking in Denver? I'd love to come see you.
Posted by: charlie Snyder | May 25, 2008 12:57 PM
See you in Vegas, PZ!
Posted by: Jewel | May 25, 2008 1:29 PM
Please come down to Dallas Fort Worth... please too many churches here
Posted by: Allytude | May 25, 2008 1:31 PM
I'll see you in Vegas at TAM6...
Posted by: Jim Lippard | May 25, 2008 1:46 PM
Will the audio or video of these events be available online?
Posted by: theinquisitor | May 25, 2008 1:59 PM
Wow, two Seattle events, plus once again at TAM6. Count me in for all three. PZ is a true rock star of biologists this summer.
Posted by: JC in Seattle | May 25, 2008 2:09 PM
Let me invite all who are attending the IEDG 2008 conference in Berkeley, CA, to visit The Bone Room. It is the non-virtual reality, natural history store.
Posted by: Ron Cauble | May 25, 2008 2:10 PM
Seriously, PZ, are there more than one of you?
Posted by: khan | May 25, 2008 2:39 PM
Hey, why not come to Orlando? Counteract creationist fantasy with some real fantasy! (Just make sure you drive right past the "Holy Land Experience". *wibble*.)
Posted by: Benjamin Geiger | May 25, 2008 2:56 PM
Atlanta yeah! I want to see that talk. As a Minnesota transplant to the South, perhaps I could help a fellow North Country native navigate the seas of mega-highways and megachurches that make up "ATL."
Posted by: Leukocyte | May 25, 2008 3:11 PM
I'm going to TAM this year in Vegas. Hopefully I can meet up with you there! (It's my first TAM, so I'm not sure how these things work yet.)
Posted by: BadMA | May 25, 2008 3:12 PM
Yep, the dreaded graveyard session. Happens in engineering too...
Posted by: Aquila | May 25, 2008 3:17 PM
It's great that you are getting invited all over the place! This is well-deserved. Go, PZ!
Posted by: michael | May 25, 2008 3:21 PM
First try reading and understanding it properly...
Posted by: Aquila | May 25, 2008 3:24 PM
By "properly," Aquila means "the way my pastor told me to read it, so that I ran revel in the glory of the merciful LORD!"
I doubt s/he means "as an interesting insight into ancient superstitious thought from dozens of authors spanning centuries."
Posted by: MIkeG | May 25, 2008 3:45 PM
Yeah PZ! Yeah Atlanta!
Please - When & Where?
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | May 25, 2008 4:00 PM
Aha! got it!
GECCO 2008 - Tuesday July 15th - Atlanta
Wow - I just saved 15% on my insurance!
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Posted by: Benjamin Franklin | May 25, 2008 4:11 PM
Nope, no pastor involved.
BTW, I posed 2 questions to you on the other thread.
Posted by: Aquila | May 25, 2008 4:35 PM
Which other thread? The platypus genome one? I confess I haven't been back there in a few days. Let me know if that's the one you mean.
Sorry about the pastor dig, maybe I should have said "with the preconceived notion that it's true."
Posted by: MIkeG | May 25, 2008 4:59 PM
Nope, the Hovind one.
As for "preconceived notion that it's true", there is more to it than a superficial reading would reveal.
Posted by: Aquila | May 25, 2008 5:13 PM
while waiting for PZ to add more to this blog, try this:
http://fold.it/portal/info/science
while "doodling," we can be of help!
Posted by: dieselrain | May 25, 2008 5:21 PM
Shame you're not staying in the Bay Area, SJ01 is a good intersection of art and science. Well that is if you consider engineering to be science.
Posted by: Onkel Bob | May 25, 2008 5:48 PM
I live in the SF bay area and also strongly suggest The Bone Room.
They have everything from petrified cave bear skeletons to plush stuffed microbes.
Posted by: Vitis01 | May 25, 2008 5:50 PM
Maybe PZ can drop in on Peter Duesberg while at Berkeley.
Posted by: Mikey M | May 25, 2008 6:54 PM
Let us know when you'll be in Denver, Dr. Myers. I would love to see you speak.
Posted by: Shigella | May 25, 2008 7:10 PM
PZ!!!!!!!!!! when are you coming to philiadelphia next!?!? I have to meet you. And give you a big hug. I hears you like asian men.
Posted by: andrew | May 25, 2008 7:43 PM
Philadelphia is November.
Posted by: PZ Myers | May 25, 2008 7:45 PM
The first pro-atheist law I think they have ever passed. Can you imagine, an academic study of the bible, contradictions, genocide and all.
Yeah right! I teach Biology in Atlanta. I'll go sit in on a class if we offer it and let you know.
Posted by: Carol Potter | May 25, 2008 8:19 PM
Damn straight Dennis...people should come to beautiful Elmira instead!
Or at least London (Ont.) would make me very happy...
Posted by: katie | May 25, 2008 9:26 PM
When at Cal, you can stop by and pay your respects to Philip "Wedge" Johnson....heck, while you're at it, you can stop by and say hello to John "Torture Memo" Woo...both of em card carrying professors at my dear alma mater...now, after recent rebranding called BerkeleyLaw (no longer Boalt)...who said Cal was liberal?
Posted by: LawDog | May 25, 2008 10:32 PM
Katie @ #36. I've been to Elmira, great place. Best Maple Sugar Festival ever! Markham just has lots of beer, none brewed here. Sad, really. Stupid Markham!
Posted by: Dennis | May 25, 2008 11:32 PM
PZ, drop me a line at that email OR blog address and we'll buy you a beer in Berkeley. Several. Plus chow.
Hell, we'll drive you down to The Bone Room. I got my favorite earrings there, and you do want to take some souvenirs back to the family, right?
Posted by: Ron Sullivan | May 26, 2008 2:48 AM
When at Cal, you can stop by and pay your respects to Philip "Wedge" Johnson....heck, while you're at it, you can stop by and say hello to John "Torture Memo" Woo...both of em card carrying professors at my dear alma mater...now, after recent rebranding called BerkeleyLaw (no longer Boalt)...who said Cal was liberal?
don't forget Deusberg over in MCB.
He and Johnson wrote the book on HIV denialism.
literally.
Posted by: Ichthyic | May 26, 2008 2:54 AM
PZ... twice in one week... in my city. A skeptics' meeting. A talk about science writing. And I'm off that week. TEARS OF JOY! I'm so there!
Posted by: Dana Hunter | May 26, 2008 3:38 AM
Hope you'll come to Virginia sometime, we desperately need you down here!
Posted by: Audrey | May 26, 2008 9:49 AM
WOOT! I've already RSVP'd for the SSE dinner. Look forward to seeing you there.
Posted by: Phil Z | May 26, 2008 12:50 PM
Hi, PZ! Sent you a note about the Berkeley gig via email. Looking forward to your reply!
Posted by: Scott Hatfield | May 26, 2008 4:43 PM
Howdy - I've seen the Atlanta announcement before, and I see a few other comments above suggesting we have at least a handful of Pharyngulites in the Atlanta area. We should arrange some kind of meet-up with PZ and the rest of us. Any suggestions on how to do so, via this comment format? Emails?
Posted by: Vic | May 27, 2008 2:00 PM
I'll be at the Pacific Science Center, but not at the SSSE event. I wouldn't pay $33 to see anyone speak, to go to any concert, or to eat any one meal. I might fudge a little on the last one, depending on the meal. But come on..chicken, salmon, or pasta? How boring!
Posted by: Jason Brunet | May 27, 2008 3:36 PM