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Posted by: Capital Dan | June 21, 2010 9:48 PM

Looks like Torchwood: Norway to me.

Posted by: Janine, The Little Top Of Venom, OM | June 21, 2010 9:55 PM

These are the people who cause the deeply religious and conservative to whine to their gods and the nearest media outlets?

Posted by: Glen Davidson | June 21, 2010 10:20 PM

Will we get names sometime?

It would be nice, if the people don't mind.

Glen Davidson

Posted by: Wowbagger, Man-Hating Man of Pharyngula | June 21, 2010 10:28 PM

Will we get names sometime?

Yeah, as I noted somewhere else, you could all pick me out of a lineup after the pics from the GAC; turnabout, as they say, is fair play.

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | June 21, 2010 10:29 PM

I'll take a shot:
KG, windy, Rorschach, Jadehawk, ?, Marjanović, teh ECO, ?, Kristjan Wager?, ?, ?

Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM | June 21, 2010 10:37 PM

The guy on the left looks like someone who recently retired from work. But I don't see him at an atheist convention. Is that Dania on the right?

Posted by: Patricia, OM | June 21, 2010 11:03 PM

Wow, these are the folks that make Big Bad Bill so furious? Who would have guessed!

Posted by: Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe | June 21, 2010 11:09 PM

also, moar pictures

Posted by: First Approximation, L'esprit de l'escalier | June 22, 2010 2:12 AM

Looks like Torchwood: Norway to me.

lol, it really does. Are they all going to sleep with on another and every other alien on Earth?

Posted by: jennyxyzzy | June 22, 2010 2:30 AM

Rider1,

That's because you're doing it wrong - you're supposed to roast the babies before eating them - then it's not messy at all...

Posted by: Ye Olde Blacksmith | June 22, 2010 2:32 AM

What!? A diverse group of people with different perspectives gathering to civilly discuss matters of agreement AND disagreement? The horror!!! Think of the children!!!1!!

Seriously, Copenhagen was great. Interestingly, for myself, it was the conversations between and after the talks that I found most engaging. Meeting some of the “famous” speakers was a real treat too, but I thought they would be taller.

I also want to give a shout out to Kristjan Wager who opened up his home to a bunch of strangers (strangers in meatspace, anyway). His generosity and trust enabled many of us on a budget to be able to attend. He was a great host and spent a lot of time and energy guiding us around Copenhagen.

Will we get names sometime?
It would be nice, if the people don't mind.

I’m a redneck(ish) atheist blacksmith from Texas. Can you spot me in the picture?
I think that after my experience in Copenhagen, I shall have to stop my lurking and participate more.

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | June 22, 2010 3:10 AM

I think that after my experience in Copenhagen, I shall have to stop my lurking and participate more.

Good! You're great fun.

As I said elsewhere I didn't recognise Rorschach despite the pictures from Melbourne. It does help when someone points out who's who, yes. Though of course the poor CEO can't keep track of us anymore.

Randi jr. is quite handsome, yes.

Posted by: Rider1 | June 22, 2010 3:22 AM

Shit, I've been eating them raw! What sort of heathen am I. Does the same sort of stuffing as poultry work?

Posted by: First Approximation, L'esprit de l'escalier | June 22, 2010 4:45 AM

They ALREADY HAVE. Keep up, please.

Oh. When will we see pictures of that?

A diverse group of people

I'm sure they were diverse in many ways, but ethnically speaking they looked just about as diverse a Republican convention. :P

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 22, 2010 5:05 AM

windy is in the picture, but Dania is unfortunately not...

Looks like someone might have lost their demon eyes.

As I told PZ, I'm wearing glasses. They block the laser sometimes.

But, hey, at least I'm wearing my Scientific Triassicism T-shirt.

Sili looks and talks like I should have expected, windy differs from my very general expectations, KG and TrineBM were surprises, and while (to my surprise) I managed to get Jadehawk's voice right from the way she writes (lowercase and all), her meatspace equivalent to :-p doesn't involve sticking the tongue out however slightly.* Instead, it's a remarkably toothy grin. :-)

* So I was utterly wrong to adopt it and turn it into the properly nerdy :-þ . Oh well. Even :-月 doesn't work, does it.

I also want to give a shout out to Kristjan Wager who opened up his home to a bunch of strangers (strangers in meatspace, anyway). His generosity and trust enabled many of us on a budget to be able to attend. He was a great host and spent a lot of time and energy guiding us around Copenhagen.

Seconded.

Doesn't look like someone who calls people "idiot" for practically no reason at all.

"Practically"... :-月

Posted by: Louis | June 22, 2010 5:20 AM

Ok is it just me that looked at that photo and thought "there's a group of people who like like they should be on some sort of register"?

Not saying I wouldn't fit in, just that that was an early thought! ;-)

Louis

P.S. The important thing to note here is that I am not at all envious and lashing out at the utterly innocent. Nooooo envy here. None at all. Excuse me, I'm just off to throttle the cat.

Posted by: Ye Olde Blacksmith | June 22, 2010 6:24 AM

A diverse group of people

I'm sure they were diverse in many ways, but ethnically speaking they looked just about as diverse a Republican convention. :P

I had a similar thought while attending. But having attended a Republican convention and having attended this conference, about the only similarity between the two, I could find, was skin tone.
...
Sorry, I can think of another difference: There were conversations this weekend wanting to encourage more participation/dialogue with/from other groups (idealogically, ethnically, geographically, etc.) I didn't see any of that at the Republican convention, to be sure.

Posted by: Ye Olde Blacksmith | June 22, 2010 6:28 AM

Sorry, I can think of another difference: I can think of one very important difference between the two: There were conversations this weekend wanting to encourage more participation/dialogue with/from other groups (idealogically, ethnically, geographically, etc.) I didn't see any of that at the Republican convention, to be sure.




argh!

Posted by: KG | June 22, 2010 6:47 AM

Must go, my laptop is about to turn into a pumpkin!

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 22, 2010 7:29 AM

And not a single one of them with horns.

I'm sorely disappointed.

Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM | June 22, 2010 7:41 AM

KG, when Sven made his guesses, I thought he was right. But you and Ron look very similar.

Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntbkLlJwiX1gbzB1e7Fo4BfJhgc2TJuek | June 22, 2010 7:47 AM

...and not a single one is holding a glass
of beer. Who was on Photoshop duty that
weekend?

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 22, 2010 7:55 AM

Someone needs to post a left-to-right. Apart from Rorschach, David M and PZ, I have no idea who any of these people are. (guessing from the comments that the left is KG)

I second this. I recognized PZ (obviously), Kristjan, David, Rorshach and guessed at Jadehawk but beyond that, no idea.

KG at the far left and .....

Posted by: pistoreyu | June 22, 2010 8:31 AM

Kristjan Wager who opened up his home

Not really surprising, given his online persona over the years, but still charming to read. He'll say, of course, that he feels more than compensated, or something.
I've often been in similar circumstances as a guest, receiving generous hospitality, and whenever I hear such a story, I feel somewhat cosmically thankful. Well, a bit personally, too: spreading sweetness and light does not fall into a void, but ripples.
Besides, if I understood it correctly, wasn't Kristjan responsible for proposing PZ's attendance in the first place?

Posted by: Dania | June 22, 2010 9:14 AM

I wish I could have been there too. Looks like you all had a great time together!

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 22, 2010 9:32 AM

Every single individual in this babyeating horde is charming, eloquent and somewhat weird. All to be expected.

Which reminds me... Rorschach is one of those people who are mellower and more soft-spoken in meatspace than online. Even though he doesn't look like a teddy bear. :-)

"Should"?

Somehow I had imagined you older and fatter. Not sure why. In hindsight, it's completely obvious I should have expected someone very much like me, only a bit older, and socially awkward in an overlapping but different set of ways.

:) In Jadehawk's photos you've still got the glaring eyes, but instead of red they have an icy blue color, almost like they are being charged in preparation for a major blast.

Strange. I need to look at the photos again. My eyes are supposed to be, you know, green; not "greenish blue" or something, but... yellowish olive maybe.

The one with the closest to icy eyes, BTW, is Jadehawk – gray, but bluish and greenish at the same time; I've never encountered that color before. Well, "icy" doesn't really fit, they don't look cold...

...and not a single one is holding a glass
of beer. Who was on Photoshop duty that weekend?

Beer was restricted to evenings and nights. The photo was taken in the very early afternoon.

my mind blanks on your nym! Help me!

maringo, IIRC.

why do you look so rigid while everyone else is so relaxed?

1) I don't think I've ever put on a fake smile (I don't see the point); and too mild emotions don't necessarily reach my skin – I can basically forget to turn them on. Does look awkward when everyone else in a photo smiles while I have a pokerface even though I enjoy the situation just as much as everyone else...

2) The way I stand in the photo is the closest I can manage to standing relaxed. I'm not one of the many, many people who walk to the left with their left leg and to the right with their right leg, so they only end up walking straight ahead on average. (Do you notice how Jadehawk looks straight ahead but puts her left foot as if she wanted to run into PZ?) When I walk or run on snow or along a beach, my footprints are parallel like most dinosaurs'. In fact, I even like standing on the outer edges of my feet alone, with the legs parallel or even crossed. – Standing for longer than it took to take the photos requires considerable muscle effort and makes my knees hurt as if I had been walking for three hours, but that's another story.

3) I really am "a stroke in the landscape"; I don't need to pull myself together to look like one. Buying trousers is a two-day horror, because my size isn't even carried by most stores. It's the smallest of the long-and-thin ones (European size 90).

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 22, 2010 9:40 AM

Looks like you all had a great time together!

Oh yes. Practical considerations aside, we should extend our next meetup to a whole month.

Posted by: rident | June 22, 2010 9:55 AM

Every great group photo needs a person with their eyes closed.

Posted by: Ye Olde Blacksmith | June 22, 2010 10:08 AM

A MONTH! I think we would have to hold it in a brewery. Hmmm...I think I know just the one, too.

Godless

Posted by: Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe | June 22, 2010 10:13 AM

Booze is simply not needed. :-)

sez you. i on the other hand would have not been able to spend that much time in the presence of that many people without becoming emotionally exhausted without a drug for lowering inhibitions. Certainly would have been more stressful, and therefore less fun.

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | June 22, 2010 10:25 AM

Somehow I had imagined you older and fatter.

Give it a few more years.

socially awkward

Oh yes.

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 22, 2010 10:35 AM

Everybody's IDed except for the guy in the back in the red shirt 5th from the left. Whoiz?

maringo, who almost always only lurks. (Same in meatspace, BTW. He was not heard and rarely seen.)

Posted by: mistereveready | June 22, 2010 12:37 PM

would have been more awesome if pz had some toy people on the side saying "home again, home again, jiggity jig." or the like. either way, glad you didn't get on a plane with someone screaming allah!

Posted by: Icaria | June 22, 2010 12:54 PM

Prob already been said but god damn, all I could think of when looking at that pic, was someone needs to go about photoshopping leotards and capes into that shot.

I would but lazy, etc.

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | June 22, 2010 3:39 PM

You guys all look so cute :P

Look closer.

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 22, 2010 4:44 PM

Oh I just saw the other pics on jadehawks blog! You guys all look so cute :P

Some of us are lovely enough, especially if you don't mean "guys" literally, but... did you click on the pics to see the full-sized versions? Man. One of them really points out my lopsided nose; it's even in the center of the picture. X-)

(Um. Don't take any pics down, Jadehawk. Truth in advertizing and all.)

Sailor Bubba

Oh yeeeeeah. Now I remember. That must be why I expected Sili to look different, even though I had managed to suppress the memory of that photo from my consciousness.

Posted by: Jadehawk, cascadeuse féministe | June 22, 2010 5:53 PM

Some of us are lovely enough, especially if you don't mean "guys" literally, but... did you click on the pics to see the full-sized versions? Man. One of them really points out my lopsided nose; it's even in the center of the picture.

it's not nearly as bad, or noticeable, or whatever, as you seem to think. you've got a lot more other far more noticeable features, the nose pretty much disappears.

Posted by: heatherly | June 22, 2010 6:15 PM

Ye Old Blacksmith: You really are a blacksmith? If so...is it possible that I could ask you some questions? I have a kid (client) that is interested in being a blacksmith and I really don't know enough to talk with him about it, or give him some idea of what it's actually like to be one.

-Heatherly
(another nearly 99% lurker)

Posted by: Leigh Williams, Feminist, OM | June 22, 2010 7:37 PM

David, my eyes are also yellow-olive, and your hair is the same color as mine.

That demonstrates something, though I'm not sure what. Yellow eyes are pretty rare here in Texas. In fact, now that I look again, you look remarkably like my late cousin James Carroll Maddux.

I expect we're related somehow.

Posted by: Emmet, OM | June 22, 2010 11:28 PM

Booze is simply not needed. :-)

Burn the heretic!

Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline. | June 23, 2010 4:44 AM

Booze is simply not needed. :-)

Burn the heretic!

Trouble is that without the booze it's harder to get the fire going.

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 23, 2010 5:35 AM

Booze is simply not needed. :-)

Burn the heretic!

Trouble is that without the booze it's harder to get the fire going.

Harrr. B-) Self-protecting heresy!

Posted by: David Marjanović | June 23, 2010 7:39 AM

truth machine did actually once post a link to photo of himself.

Posted by: windy | June 23, 2010 6:14 PM

I also want to give a shout out to Kristjan Wager who opened up his home to a bunch of strangers (strangers in meatspace, anyway). His generosity and trust enabled many of us on a budget to be able to attend. He was a great host and spent a lot of time and energy guiding us around Copenhagen.

Thirded fourthed!

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Everybody's IDed except for the guy in the back in the red shirt

maringo, who almost always only lurks. (Same in meatspace, BTW. He was not heard and rarely seen.)

I wouldn't say that, I saw at least as much of him as I saw of you. But... red shirt? Uh oh. I hope he made his flight without being eaten by some local creature (such as Reptilicus)