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Last week, a bunch of us were able to hook up in New York, with Melissa and Taningia danae (Tani) joining yours truly for ika sashimi and some green tea, and in Boston, with Clem and Ob drinking basically anything but tea.
I'll leave it to Clem to post the dire details of what transpired in the New England Aquarium and beyond, but let's settle for the moment on that it contained failed attempts at nautilus, octopus and cuttle communication, a much heated debate on Mesonychoteuthis ocular morphology and unpublishable photographs of great importance in light thereof.
And googliness, obviously, much googliness.
Especially after six beers or so.
So, back to the New York event. The three of us met up at Sharaku on 3rd and Stuyvesant. It is really funny how people that are from all over the place and simply know each other through TONMO can still feel fairly familiar in no time. We are a pretty tight community, so it seems. We sort of agreed that the way the forum is moderated has a lot to do with this, there is little (need for) intervening and so people's personalities are allowed to come through clearer in their posts than their arguments or personal demons
We spent a leisurely afternoon finding out the stories behind each of our lives so far, careers, choices, travel, kids or definitely none, spouses or definitely none, their social aptitudes etcetera. Oh yes, and squid, obviously. What a joy to meet people like this. The subsequent stroll through Tompkins Square park, brought us to the much more important matter of bubble tea, however.
New York being New York, bubble tea proved only a short walk away. I found the whole experience,..., "interesting"
Summise to say that D.B.A. on 1st found a very willing patron in yours truly when I found out they had "de Koninck" on tap, a glorious golden ale from Antwerp, quite without tapioca
In all we had a great afternoon, I felt privileged to play a bit of catch up since having had to cancel my Tonmocon II attendance at the very last minute, earlier this year.
I'll attach a pic for your perusal once my camera's recharged... It'll show the big O in the middle there, surrounded by the dainty figures of melissa and tani on my respective right and left, or left and right, if you take the viewer's perspective, or, wait, let's have one more de Koninck
I'll leave it to Clem to post the dire details of what transpired in the New England Aquarium and beyond, but let's settle for the moment on that it contained failed attempts at nautilus, octopus and cuttle communication, a much heated debate on Mesonychoteuthis ocular morphology and unpublishable photographs of great importance in light thereof.
And googliness, obviously, much googliness.
Especially after six beers or so.
So, back to the New York event. The three of us met up at Sharaku on 3rd and Stuyvesant. It is really funny how people that are from all over the place and simply know each other through TONMO can still feel fairly familiar in no time. We are a pretty tight community, so it seems. We sort of agreed that the way the forum is moderated has a lot to do with this, there is little (need for) intervening and so people's personalities are allowed to come through clearer in their posts than their arguments or personal demons
We spent a leisurely afternoon finding out the stories behind each of our lives so far, careers, choices, travel, kids or definitely none, spouses or definitely none, their social aptitudes etcetera. Oh yes, and squid, obviously. What a joy to meet people like this. The subsequent stroll through Tompkins Square park, brought us to the much more important matter of bubble tea, however.
New York being New York, bubble tea proved only a short walk away. I found the whole experience,..., "interesting"
Summise to say that D.B.A. on 1st found a very willing patron in yours truly when I found out they had "de Koninck" on tap, a glorious golden ale from Antwerp, quite without tapioca
In all we had a great afternoon, I felt privileged to play a bit of catch up since having had to cancel my Tonmocon II attendance at the very last minute, earlier this year.
I'll attach a pic for your perusal once my camera's recharged... It'll show the big O in the middle there, surrounded by the dainty figures of melissa and tani on my respective right and left, or left and right, if you take the viewer's perspective, or, wait, let's have one more de Koninck
