meet up

Time for more open thread. In an interesting coincidence, Brian Dunning is here in Sydney to talk at TAM Australia, so I thought it would be interesting to go to the TAM fringe open mic night (tonight!) and talk about, oh, DDT.
Well, we didn't have a fancy sign, on account of being on the other side of the world from Seed High Command, but people were able to find us by spotting the Scienceblogs mug. My brilliant plan to have the party in the Attic Bar because it would be fairly empty on a Wednesday night was foiled by the hotel having a movie night there because it was so empty on a week night. We ended up outside in the courtyard on a pleasant spring evening. Daniel had to go home and pack because he's heading off to the UK on Monday, but the rest of us were there till the place closed at midnight. More…
This Saturday, 1st April in the Royal Botanic Gardens from 1pm. We'll be at the lawn to the east of the Main Pond. Tigtog has some pictures of the location.
On Saturday, I showed to a bloggers meet up organized by Suki and Susoz. Also attending were weez, Flashman, Morgan and tigtog. We decided that a bloggers' picnic would be fun, so, if you're in Sydney on Saturday April 1st, come to the Royal Botanical Gardens from 1pm. We're spreading the picnic blankets on the lawn to the east of the Main Pond. Tigtog has more details.
Flashman has declared Jan 28 to be Grogblogging 3 night. I plan to be there. In true blogging style, a controversy about the location has already broken out.
I went to a get together for bloggers in Sydney last night. Writing more about it than I am are Fulmination Dave, Leigh Cartwright, Bourbonbird, an-open-mind, the bed and breakfast man, Misha, Dreadnought and Glen Fuller. Of particular note is Dreadnought's account of having to leave after a few minutes because the venue insisted that his partner remove his headgear, even though they explained that he was wearing it for religous reasons. Update: And Philip Gomes, Spleenie, Antony Loewenstein, Ausculture Jess and Darp. Update 2: OK, Mark, Muffin, mikey, Edward and Agent Fare Evader.
Darp and Jess organized a get together of bloggers in Sydney last Friday. I wandered along and, well, there were a lot of people there. Despite having been to two previous such gatherings, the only bloggers I had met before were Jason Soon and c8to. I'm too lazy to link to everybody so I'm going to reward TimT's shameless link whoring by suggesting you go to his post and follow the links from there to all the photos and descriptions and more importantly, a whole bunch of interesting blogs you might not have seen before. One anecdote: That evening, at dinner…