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I think I'd like to meet you in real life.
In-person meetups between people who are not physically attracted to each other are overrated.
My retirement party was two hours long (including 1.5 hours of time theft). This was justifiable. There were something like a dozen people present, and they spent the time eating and discussing their shared job. Even then, I didn't actually enjoy it that much.
My housewarming party with my former coworkers will be four hours long. IMO, this is on the long side, but can be considered justified because (1) the coworkers will discuss their shared job, (2) large amounts of food will be provided, (3) the drive is three or four hours each way (which also implies some staggered arrivals), and (4) substantial amounts of time will be taken up by a house-design contest in which the attendees will discuss the design process with each other. Even then, I don't really expect to enjoy it that much, other than the house-design contest and inviting people to walk with me on the "flat" roof. (I'm holding it not just to show off my cool custom house, but also to show up a coworker who said he was going to hold a housewarming party and then failed to do so.)
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A few months ago, I half-jokingly suggested organizing a meetup of people who are interested in nonconsensual editing of print and PDF items into HTML. But a meetup centered on HTML would make far more sense to conduct online: the attendees would share their screens to show off their different approaches. And, even then, what's the point of doing all this rigmarole for an hour of ephemeral screen sharing? The people who would attend can just make individual blogposts on the topic on their personal websites.
Several years ago, I gave serious consideration to asking fellow New Jersey hater @The_Nybbler for an in-person meetup. But what would we actually discuss? Merely hating New Jersey isn't actually substantive enough for a conversation. Even if it is considered substantive enough, it can sustain maybe five minutes of conversation that would be far easier to carry out online (with links to relevant laws). And there's no point in setting up an ephemeral one-on-one conversation when it's much more useful and lasting to just upvote his comments and provide links to relevant laws whenever he expresses hate for New Jersey on this website.
Now you're just teasing.
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I used to do that back when I was less gainfully employed. I mean, I was still gainfully employed, I just had more free time.
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