At last, I am safely home after an excessively long and annoying trip back from Skepticon. One of the pleasures of these trips, at least, is meeting ferocious Pharyngulistas who are otherwise just fierce pseudonyms on a page, and who usually turn out to be fun and interesting human beings. Here's one nice photo of some familiar people:
From left to right, that's:
Mattir, Tone of Death
cicely, Death's Imaginary Friend
Reality Enforcer, Spawn of Death
The Floating Cheerful Head of PZ
Blake Stacey
KOPD, Death's Chia Pet supplier
Jules, Bride of Death
Rey Fox, He who has nothing to do with Death
Now it's almost noon here, and I've got a frantic quantity of work to catch up on, and a whole long evening of administrative duties.
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