Well, we're coming up on another grex birthday, and we need to choose a date. The date proposed at last night's board meeting was July 19. This is the day after the art fair closes. The idea was that people could come to town for the art fair, and stay over to go to the Grex Picnic. What do people think? s/teh/the/35 responses total.
It's as close as we're going to get to the actual day. I'll be artfairing Saturday, so Sunday would be good. Gads. 7 years.
Could someone explain more about the Grex picnic to new members? (Try :/teh/the/).
Yes, art fair day would definately be a bad idea. Sunday would be nice. i may actually attend a grex gathering someday - after all I've been here just about as long as anyone else, just not often :)
We've usually done something face-to-face around the time of Grex's Birthday (Grex was opened to the public on 7/18/98 about 4:30pm). I'm not quite sure why we do this, but it's fun. Maybe, in those first years, we were celebrating the fact that we'd managed to survive. We certainly didn't have much money then (not that we do now), and it was an open question whether we'd survive or not.
And, because it's summer and nice, the f-t-f gethering is usually a potluck picnic. (I know, I'm just used to vi, and I forgot to fix it when I did go into vi.)
(STeve meant "7/18/91" in #4.)
The Grex birthday picnic has always been held at Island Park, since that was the site of the famous FOG meeting.
FOG = Friends of Grex The FOG meeting was a public gathering, held a few weeks before Grex went online, for the founders to explain what they were up to and for people to talk about what they'd like to see by way of conference setup. Highlights I can recall: Katie and polygon volunteered to be Agora fw's; it was decided not to give fw's the power to censor; a few initial conferences were decided on, with a mechanism for requesting new ones in the Coop conference. I like these yearly anniversary potlucks, I think the establishment of Grex is something worth celebrating once a year, and the July 19 date sounds fine to me.
re #6: Yes, that is most certainly what STeve meant.
We must stress that there is not now, nor has there ever been, a
Grex time machine. Indications to the contrary are irresponsible
rumor-mongering and responsible parties will be investigated
and disciplined for dissemination of uncleared information.
So if I understand this right, grexers living to for to attend would be Friends Of Grex In Exile (FOGIES). Righ
Well, I only got one character wrong in #4. Only a few bits, really...
Show me a date so I can puke.
(I'll see what I can do to import/accommodate some out-of-town Grexers. even when I'm on vacation from Grex, I like going to the birthday party; it gives me a sense of perspective.)
Yes, before your appearance at the party last year, I was wondering if you still existed. That fact that you obviously did gave me a sense of perspective too.
Rumor supports the growing body of evidence that there will be a grex time machine invented in the near future, however. I myself have witnessed it's effects. I was visited by someone online who was operating the time machine last fall. They made a number of accurate predictions, such as declaring that the Detroit Tigers would not win the NBA championship, and that there would be an Olympic Games in Japan early this year. Who could have known? They also predicted that I'd get a haircut in the next two years. They were astonishingly accurate.
RE #15 The Detroit Tigers can't win an NBA championship -- they're a baseball team.
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I can go this year :) Last year I was at a concert.
Count me in as well.
re #16: of course it's a baseball team. That's the point. :) Sorry, sometimes I'm a bit subtle for people. I was making the predictions frightfully obvious and easy to predict, I thought.
Gosh, Jessica, who could you have seen in concert last year? ;-) Count me in...with a cheesecake and peanut butter pie.
Cheesecake? Where?
Re 20, it was not too subtle for me.
I'll be there with the usual birthday cake! (And maybe friends in tow.)
We won't be there. Major schedule conflicts.
July the 19th? Hmmm, There is this possibility that it is about when I am in the States, if I am.
Well, I should be around for it, i think.....if I can swing it...:) Most likely with Carrot Cake in tow. :)
Sounds like a birthday party for me! (Being that my birthday is July 24, the 19th would be an appropriate day for a picnic in my honor)
I may be visiting family in London at the time.. I'm not sure though.. I'll definately *try* to come
sounds like a reason for Yoopers to ROADTRIP!
Sure does. I will be coming this year, as well, seeing as I will not be in upper michigan when the dern thing happens! Looking forward to seeing all of these wonderful people who I haven't seen in real life for forever!
Hey... July... I *might* be ungrounded then... <sigh> If they let me out of the house, I'll be there.
Is it about time to start flogging the birthday party with an item in Summer Agora, and a motd entry?
YUp. It's only a week and a half away, right?
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