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Mefi Mofi Bloggy Get Down

As I proposed here, pursuant to no object-icons from the peanut gallery, Danelope and I invite Mefites, Mofites, and PNW bloggers in general to descend upon the capacious Elysian in my beloved, if down-at-the-heels, Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.

7p, Saturday November 6
The Elysian
1221 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122

Phone: 206-860-1920

Main MeTa thread.

The Elysian was the location of the prior MeFi hoo-hah and suited all parties to a tee, with wifi and food both available. Ye mappe.

I had intended to set up some sort of evite-like check-in attendance list, but instead have decided the easy thing to do is make a page at the Metafilter wiki.

Interested persons can just sign in there, no muss no fuss, and no required use of pesky time-based identifiers. Or here in the comments, either way – I’m not taking attendance.

I’ve asked mcwetboy to add the event to his MeFi calendar.

Alas! For this was proposed before NaDruWriNi ’04 was graven into the stone of the Internets. B^2, mebbe a monkeypile will occur and I can describe that while drunk!

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HOLY COW

Bill Clinton just called me.

Okay, so he was a phone-bot. But let me tell you, when you pick up the phone and hear “Hello, this is Bill Clinton,” it’s still noteworthy. For the record, my response was to burst into laughter and listen closely to the whole thing to see if they’d figured out some way to do personalization.

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Moonlight and dawn

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Moonlight on the new snow reveals the mountain and the plume of steam around eleven last night.

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Seven a.m.

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Eight a.m.

Man, the images are so beautiful sometimes. I wish the camera had a higher resolution or a crisper CCD – the visual appeal of these thumbs is sometimes not met by the full-size imagery, owing to artifacts in the image itself.