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Posted on: September 8, 2008 4:19 PM, by Steve Higgins
There was a request for a Millionth Comment party here in Champaign-Urbana Illinois... I would totally be up for getting together with a bunch of like minded folk and throwing a few down.... say at the Blind Pig?
Anyone else up for meeting up for some beers? (Or Soda... or I guess even water)
Any date preferences?
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Saturday the 27th might be good, as there's no home football game that weekend. Any idea how many of us ScienceBlogs readers there are lurking around this area?
Posted by: Dan J | September 8, 2008 7:27 PM
hmpf... well... besides my friends I've only run across a couple. We're still discussing whether to have it here in Champaign or at Purdue.
Posted by: Steve Higgins | September 9, 2008 10:59 PM
Funny that, since I grew up in Lafayette and took a few classes at Purdue. (I was born in South Bend, home of the Fighting Irish. I guess I just like college towns.)
I guess we need to do something down here to drum up more readers for ScienceBlogs in general.
Posted by: Dan J | September 9, 2008 11:16 PM
Purdue... WTF?! Come on down buddy :)
Posted by: David R. | September 11, 2008 1:10 PM