{"id":495,"date":"2007-08-19T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/08\/19\/meeting-my-sciblings\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T19:29:28","slug":"meeting-my-sciblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/meeting-my-sciblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting My Sciblings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, Seed Media<\/a>, our benevolent and beloved corporate overlords, sponsored a Scibling gathering: ScienceBloggers from all over the country (and outside) all gathered in New York, ate, drank, and partied.<\/p>\n

It made for quite an interesting weekend. I didn’t end up being able to hang around nearly as much
\nas I would have liked (I missed the drunken Karaoke! As someone who never<\/em> gets drunk, watching
\nmy drunken sciblings singing badly would have been a kick!) Alas, as the father of two small kids,
\nI’m subject to the schedule of family\/babysitters, so I couldn’t hang aronud. (Plus, to make matters worse, my wife became sick friday night, and I started feeling sick saturday afternoon. I’m writing this from bed.)<\/p>\n

But I did manage to meet quite a lot of folks, even in my limited time there. It’s quite an odd experience in its way; between our blogs, and our back-channel forums, we’ve become a tight-knit community, and the people there were my friends, even though I’d never seen them before. It
\nwas a whole lot of fun. My impressions are below the fold. They’re just off the top of my head; I’ll probably edit this
\nlater as I remember more.<\/p>\n

By the way, that ScienceBlogs mug that Seed is offering to give away in the subscription ads? They gave us each one as a gift, and theyre great. It’s a very nice, heavy glass mug that looks like a cross between a mug and a beaker.<\/p>\n

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