What do you get when you put three geeks and two Pratchetteers (new word?) into one room? Lots of discussion on the pronunciation of Linux and router, rants of nested tables, World of Warcraft (hiss boo), chavs in Telford, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, web 2.0, Nanny Ogg’s cookbook and sexual innuendo (although the latter two are much the same).
Yes: Katy, Amelie and her partner Alex decided to pop in to see Karl and I for a geeky Internet meet-up organised in about 10 minutes on the spur of the moment. Two hours later (Amelie and Alex had a long drive) we’re all together drinking exotic juice, tea and orange and LOLing at general Internetness. Ahh, good times.
So, if you’ve ever wondered if I am secretly an old fat guy posing as a young adult blogger, Amelie and Katy will confirm that — yes — I definitely am.
26 Nov at 10:55 pm
lol! what did you use to meet on the net ive been trying to have net meet ups but i cant find any decent software!
26 Nov at 10:56 pm
Noo, we met in person!
26 Nov at 11:02 pm
I’ve /always/ known you were an old fat guy posing as a young adult blogger. It was too obvious…
27 Nov at 12:06 am
Nice! And yes, you’re definitely an old fat guy with mad internet skills that old guys generally don’t have.
27 Nov at 12:14 am
Sounds fun! When I talk about geeky internet stuff to my friends it’s the same as talking to a wall…they’re just like “whaa?” And I’m not even CLOSE to Jem’s geniusness…so that is saying something about my friends.
27 Nov at 12:55 am
…what are Pratchetteers? Is this British lingo, or a made-up term for something…? *is confused* :P
27 Nov at 1:01 am
All the cool kids are using Skype.
27 Nov at 1:04 am
Jemboo, long time no speak, how goes it, you internet geek you! :p omglolz
27 Nov at 1:43 am
@ Manda: I might be wrong but I think “Pratchetters” is in reference to a British (?) author named Terry Pratchett. Rather good one, too. Thanks for confirming my suspicions about your true identity – I always did wonder why the fascination with my knickers :P Nice to hear that at least one net meet-up went well…a net friend of mine is on a world trip at the moment and is currently in NZ, and well, he’s driving me up the bloody wall.
27 Nov at 1:43 am
@Carina: I tried Skype once. Apparently it doesn’t work with ‘slow’ computers like mine…and I don’t mean ‘slow’ as in speed, I mean a whole different thing…
27 Nov at 7:11 am
Old fat bloke? Always said you took after your mother Jem *grin* Glad you had a good time though.
27 Nov at 7:46 am
Wow, it sounds like heaven. I too am an old fat guy… but that’s never really been a secret ;)
27 Nov at 8:47 am
:D Good times, good times. Mostly. :P
27 Nov at 10:13 am
I made the word up to describe Karl and Alex – two Terry Pratchett fans. I also like his books but was too busy being geeky ;)
27 Nov at 11:28 am
blog meets are abounding hehe!
27 Nov at 11:54 am
Sounds pretty exclusive! I feel kind of left out. It is great to know where to stop by for some exotic juice and tea if I stopped by England sometime though.
27 Nov at 1:37 pm
I knew you were an old fat guy! There always was this little voice in the back of my head stating it over and over again ;)
27 Nov at 3:39 pm
I thought you’d be something more…unique…I mean who is *not* an old fat guy on the internet?
27 Nov at 6:19 pm
Sounds like fun! I’m not a complete internet geek though I do know some stuff… anyway I tried to rope my friends into making a website with me but I gave up after they asked me what a browser was. Is it just me but I thought that was pretty obvious? Oh and Jem even though your an old fat guy we’ll all still wuv you! :)
27 Nov at 7:28 pm
Pratchetteers is not new I’m afraid, and we’ve also been called Discworlders, Discworldians, Pratties and Discies (after Trekies), and various others I can’t recall. A consensus is yet to emerge….thankfully. ;-)
27 Nov at 7:53 pm
I think I’d be offended if someone called me a “Prattie” ;)
27 Nov at 10:20 pm
Terry Pratchet Discworld Novels- woop woop! :D
27 Nov at 10:49 pm
.. I.. you’re like.. dude, dammit you’re going to be responsible for my “Terry Pratchett”athon.. you know when I need to use my mum’s credit card to buy ‘some’ books authored by him and probably black list her in the long run? :D
28 Nov at 2:43 am
Fat old guy? Oldest story in the book. Fat old woman, now that’d be something slightly new. P.S. “Exotic” juice? I thought old fogies stuck to goodies like lemonade, orange juice, or apple juice. ;P