AI: It’s all about you
Last week, I asked you who is your favorite Skepchick and why. And then we all walked around HQ with huge swollen heads and even huger smiles. Man, we love you guys!
Like I mentioned in my last AI, it is skeptic season. The day after tomorrow, I will be boarding a plane from Chicago to Minneapolis for the very first ever SkepchickCon! And a week later, I’ll be boarding another plane from Chicago to Las Vegas for my very first TAM! The excitement is almost overwhelming. Not only do I get to hang with the rest of the Hive, but I’m going to meet a bunch of you guys, too!
(BTW, If you walk up to me any time during TAM or SkepchickCon and say the words, “Headset Vince says he ShamWow loves your face!” I will give you a hug. FREE!)
Since we already went over how much you love us, why not tell us who you love? Who’s your favorite Skepchick reader-commenter? Who makes you laugh? Who makes you think?
The Afternoon Inquisition (or AI) is a question posed to you, the Skepchick community. Look for it to appear daily at 3pm ET.
Oh no! I’m not falling for that one, that’s how wars are started. Everyone takes sides and pits one Skepchick against another. And pretty soon you’ve got anarchy!
But I really like Rebecca, she’s got a twisted sense of humor.
@teambanzai:
By reader-commenter I meant ones that don’t work here. Last week was fave Skepchick.
@teambanzai :
I agree.
Oh wait, we’re supposed to read what other people say? I just scroll right down and put in my two cents without regard to what anyone else has said. Sometimes I throw around wild unsubstantiated accusations for good measure.
LOL @Vengeful Harridan (Elexina):
uh oh. That line is too long for me to remember, Elyse. Can I just say “Vince! ShamWow! Face!”
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Oh, let’s see: Kimbo Jones, James Fox, Gabrielbrawley
I love myself, because otherwise no one will. ='(
@Joshua: As long as you keep that gravitar up, I’ll love you!
I also like Hotphysicsboy-simply because of his gravitar.
As far content-its like asking which finger do you like best. I like them all-except that pinky. Why do we have them? I think that’s evidence of unintelligent design….ok, back on topic.
Its like a jenga puzzle. Take one away, and it all falls apart. No one person makes better comments by him/herself, they play off one another.
Gabrielbrawley, for sure. He always makes me think. Also, boobs.
@infinitemonkey: Is Hotphysicsboy still around? Hmm. Icons are (usually) blocked at work, so maybe I just haven’t noticed the abs in a while.
@marilove: Yeah, anyone who mentions “boobs” in a complimentary manner gets my vote.
@marilove: He doesn’t post that often, but when he does…I often disregard what he has to day. He’s a pretty face. Pretty faces aren’t supposed to have an opinion.
Gabrielbrawley because he usually goes boobies and booze before me, Marilove and Kimbo for being feisty and fun, Oskar Kennedy for jumping in head first funny way to many times to mention and every woman that’s said her favorite drink is scotch. I’m fairly impressed in general with the quality of discussion and fun everyone contributes to round here.
@infinitemonkey:
Face? He has a face?
Wow. Who knew?
OH MAN!!! I’ve wanted to share my love with these people for so long!
Marilove: because she’s amazing and hilarious and uber cool
Gabrielbrawley: because he’s generally very thought provoking and gives me a different perspective on things, not to mention he’s fucking hilarious.
James Fox: just because he’s fantastic.
There are others, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind.
Basically I just like the thought provoking comments provided by everyone and the differing opinions. It’s nice to be able to share ideas on different subjects and not be judged (too harshly) and still be able to have a sense of commoradity when it’s all said and done.
I’m having high school year book singing flashbacks.
@Elyse: I’ve never paid attention to his face, but I’ve logically deduced that he SHOULD have a face. next time he posts, we’ll test that theory. Maybe Joshua could make unbiased examiniation.
Stay cool! Have a great summer!!
@James Fox: We had to sing before we could sign at my school.
@James Fox:
BFFF!!
Does anyone else create images in your head about what the other posters should look like based on their gravitar?
@Elyse: That’s what *I* was thinkin’!
@AmateurScientist makes me laugh out loud, consistently.
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Have a kick BUTT summer! Try not to think about Mr. Ogden’s mustache goat doll 2 much. HAHAHA
@phlebas does too. But he does that all the time, in real life and online. Much moreso in real life :)
@infinitemonkey: Does anyone else create images in your head about what the other posters should look like based on their gravitar?
If I ever make it to a Drinking Skeptically session, I expect you all to either look exactly like your avatar, or to be wearing a printout of it strapped to your face.
drat, forgot the close tag there…..
Honestly, I want to say “EVERYONE!” but infinitemonkey always makes me lol, James Fox is one smart cookie (and not just ‘cuz he mentioned me!), Kimbo, Elyse, Joshua because he knows his whiskey, catgirl because both here and on scienceblogs she basically says what I am thinking but can never articulate, QuestionAuthority is pretty awesome too, MiddleMan always makes me loool, Kaylia_Marie because she’s awesome, and davew becuase we don’t always agree and that can be fun.
And there are so many more but I am stopping now.
@infinitemonkey: Oh no. I wonder what I look like in your head…
My profile used to link to my myspace, but I borked it and can’t fix it at work and forget to fix it otherwise. So now y’all will think I look like a very manly dude in makeup?! lol
James Fox – Smart and cool, nice combo. Love the Gravitar.
Marilove – Slightly odd chick who likes even numbers and fair treatment.
Steve – Who couldn’t like Steve? The man plays with chemicals!
tiger kitty – My favorite foil and posting play-date. Hopefully hasn’t thrown herself off of a cliff yet.
There are more, and I’ll post them on this love fest soon…
Oh oh and tmarie and tiger kitty AND I AM GOING TO STOP NOW.
@MiddleMan: “Slightly odd chick”
That is perhaps the best compliment I’ve ever received! :D
@marilove: Meant in the most complimentary, “Hey, I respect you as a person, you fellow Eddie Izzard fan” kinda way.
James Fox for the insight
Marilove for making me think
GabrielBrawley for the funny.
@infinitemonkey:
Not only do I have pictures based on avatars (which doesn’t mean I think you look LIKE your avatar, BTW), but avatar changes are upsetting to me… it’s like you went on Extreme Makover Internet Edition.
@MiddleMan: Eddie Izzard fans uniiiiiite!
@marilove:
Yessss!!!!
@Elyse: See, I have to go by usernames, because I Skepchick mostly at work (shhhh), and the avatars are blocked! Every once in a while, they become unblocked, and it fucking confuses me. I get thrown off. Hahaha.
But on livejournal, I tend to remember people by their icons unless we’ve had a history, so if someone changes their icon, I … tend to kind of forget who they were.
@marilove: Best Compliment? Kid, you need to get out more. ;)
@Elyse: I would like to state, just for the record, my gravitar does not look like me. I didn’t want to confuse anyone.
@Elyse: I switched my avatar for a while and ended up not liking my self. I even made my facebook profile picture look like my avatar which wasn’t that hard.
@infinitemonkey: Proof is required…, for the record.
@infinitemonkey: What? Wrong brand of typewriter?
I dread the “Who’s the biggest pain in the ass AI”.
@davew:
I’ll post that one right after I summon the guts to ask “Who’s your least favorite Skepchick?”
@James Fox:
I know you did! it was fantastic. It made the transition from Black Cartoon James to White Real Person Guy.
Tree Lobster Steve!
And a hell of a lot of other people.
@MiddleMan: Oh hey, I pride myself on being a unique chick… ;)
@James Fox: 80-90, depending on the whiskey. Assuming you don’t buy at cask strength, that is.
Although … I might have to take that back. Leslie Jordan called me “Fabulous!” and that, perhaps, is the best compliment I’ve ever received.
@Joshua: Two shay…
And I do, Laphroaig Quarter Cask please.
Awww. I love you all! all the skepchickey love is making me sad that I haven’t had time for much commenting lately. I need to quit my job, obviously.
As I tell my boys, I LOVE EVERYONE EQUALLY. No favorites. And I look like my avatar. Bad hair day every single day of the month.
@LOLkate: I’m curious, what sort of cat is that in your avatar? :P Those ears are mesmerizing.
I love you all. well, most of you.
Actually I really do love everyone… almost all of you I think I would really like to hang out with in real life, grab a mocha or a scotch or a something.
Kimbo and Marilove are perhaps my all time faves… but that’s just cuz I have internet crushes on them.
Oh and Gabrielbrawley because he reads my blog and keeps asking to see my boobies :P
@Kaylia_Marie: I just clicked your blog and see you are in Santa Cruz. You’re just over the hill from me. Just sayin’.
Ahem, and Tiger Kitty who has a bitch ass avatar and who lives just over the hill from me and thus has just moved up into the ranks of “People Cool Enough To Live in CA”
Hi!
Wait… have you been to any of the skeptics in the pub things? HAVE I actually shared a mocha or a scotch with you and didn’t even know it was you?
@Kaylia_Marie: No, dear, no worries!!! I’ve never been to a pub thing. But we should get together and compare boobies. Is your email on your blog?
It is indeed!
Are you enjoying the heat? All day today people were bitching about how hot it was over the weekend… I, who only work on this side of the hill and live in SC, did my best not to gloat toooo loudly over my perfect weather.
/rant over.
@Kaylia_Marie: LOL Yes, the heat is grand! We actually avoid going to SC on super hot weekends, even tho the weather is perfect, because of the mass of people that go. Unless you go super early, 17 is a parking lot. I’ll pop back to your blog in a bit and drop you an email. :)
Spiffy… the email link is in my profile.
And now the rest of you can stalk me too!
You know the whole traffic thing is funny (because I live there)…. I walked from my apartment, through downtown, and over to the beach on Sat… and I realized it was only going to take me 20 mins to walk… but the same distance was going to take the tourists 45 mins to drive.
I felt oddly happy about that.
Petty, but happy.
@Kaylia_Marie: “I felt oddly happy about that.
Petty, but happy.”
Welcome to my world. :-)
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Thinking about this question and the previous one I realize that I can’t answer it. It’s hard to think of the Skepchick’s and commenters as individual enough people to have their own subfolder in my memory. This would be a prerequisite for choosing favorites. I need a better hook than an avatar to hang memories on. Give me another year or so and I’ll start to remember names. If I ever met any of y’all in meat space, however, it would be a completely different thing.
I am comfortably certain this is my malfunction in how I remember people. If anyone else wants to fess up, however, I wouldn’t mind some company.
@Steve: @marilove: @James Fox: @tiger kitty: @Kaylia_Marie: @@Vengeful Harridan (Elexina): @bug_girl: Kimbojones and I am sure I am forgetting someone. Please forgive me for forgetting.
I was thinking of all of you guys the other day. I would love to meet you in the real world. I think we would have a blast. I feel like I know you guys at least a little. I’m hoping that some or all of you will be at a future TAM when I finally have the time and money to attend. I actually think of you all at different times.
Marilee I think of you when I am at my local supermarket. There is a young lady there that I think of as Mary’s girl. She has small breasts and a nice ass but on the large side. James I think of you when I am in the Scotch aisle of the liquor store or tonight when I bought some more bleu cheese stuffed olives. Steve when I see the lobster tank. Tiger when I pick up one of my several Calvin and Hobbes collections.
It is weird. I will see or do something and I will think. I can’t wait to tell the gang over at skepchick. How can I work this into a comment?
@sporefrog: It’s a serval kitten! they look like adorable stretched out house cats and I want one, even though i hear they make terrible pets.
I like all the commenters who are not me. The specific ones that I would mention have been mentioned, such as kimbo and gabrielbrawley and james fox, marilove, et al, so no real point in repeating. Which I just did anyway, despite its apparent pointlessness.
@MiddleMan: HELLO! Not even a primate would be caught on one of those! I use a computer.
Steve and marilove have already been said. Tiger kitty and davew are both hilarious too. Also, tiger kitty’s gravatar is great (yay Calvin and Hobbes!).
agh Elyse as if your last question wasn’t hard enough!!
to avoid any fights I’ll just say that I love me ;p
@infinitemonkey: I will match my extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence-I’ve just updated my name link to go to my facebook profile, where there’s a real picture of me-for the curious. I’ve been wanting to do it for a bit anyways, since I use it more often than twitter.
*DISCLAIMER-Infinite Monkey is not responsible for screen breaking, temporary/permanent blindness, or being turned to stone as a result of viewing my picture. Please view responsibly.
@infinitemonkey: Friend request sent!
My name also links to my facebook profile.
Just got a friend request on Facebook from Zoey. Not sure who she is and I don’t think she’s the skeptical type. Should I accept? http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=1840917353&%3Bpc=1&pc=1
D’aww… I love all yous guys! Seriously, if you ladies and dudes threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be from me, and the card attached would say, “Thank you for being a friend!”
On top of that, I’ll add…
@marilove: Izzard 4 life!
@killyosaur42: Thanks for introducing me to Heidevolk. Listening to Dutch pagan metal makes my commute to work much more enjoyable.
@Imrryr: You’re very welcome. They have been a staple of my mp3 cds for almost a year now. Gotta love that dutch pagan folk metal!
@marilove: That you are, my dear. ;)
@infinitemonkey: Not meaning to offend, just monkeying around…
@Gabrielbrawley: Things you see remind you of people on the board? That’s cool…
Wait, does that mean every time you pass by a pawn shop you think of me?
@James Fox: I say go for it. Sent you and infinitemonkey friend request also, if you guys don’r mind. New to the Facebook etiquette.
@MiddleMan: No, unfortunately, tone can’t be conveyed on a message board, so you couldn’t get that I was trying to point out how passe the typewriter is.
@infinitemonkey: I was just being sarcastic, I mean… Look you misunderstood… What I was saying… Can’t we just…
I know, I know, that’s why my default setting in online discussions is – assume the other person is serious until proven otherwise. I do realize that higher primate as yourself would be computer savvy.
Banana?
@MiddleMan: and @infinitemonkey: okay, you two, quit your kvetching and bring your bananas and join me in a vat of jello. I’ll bring the boobs.
@tiger kitty: Aww, thanks, TK. You’re like the UN. Except the boobs in charge actually have function.
wait, wait, wait, WAIT!
….you mean to tell me there is more to this site than cute animal friday and the 12 sets of titties i get in the mail once a year?!?
I loathe you all with the heat of 1000 dying suns.
okay, not really, I actually kind of dig most of you.
@JSug: Okay, that’s hella funny. :)
@MiddleMan: And form. And perkiness.
@Gabrielbrawley: awwww what a great way/time to think of me! hah! <3
pff i changed my url to my facebook page, but im not sure it worked.
@Joshua: because that is my meatspace name, and also he has a spiffy hat.
@LOLkate:
Oh, oh! Have you heard about Savannah cats? They’re a mix between a domestic cat and a Serval. They apparently will use leashes, are very friendly, and look awesome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_cat#Temperament
I haven’t read all the comments here. I’m just posting. I used to post more often, but stupid real life has gotten in the way.
But Marilove, Gabrielbrawley, tiger kitty, and many others are so much fun.
@marilove: Well, I can’t see it. It wants me to join. You are going to make me breakdown and join facebook now aren’t you? Dammit.
@tiger kitty: Yes, become one with the dark side! Muah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!!
@tiger kitty: Yes, TK… Come be one of us… One of us… One of us…
@tiger kitty: If you promise to check your boobs at the door-you’re on!
@marilove: Yes, it did.
Dude!
I just sent three friend requests, found a new blog to read and it isn’t even 9 am!
How freakin’ cool is that?
My name links to my blog, which should in some way link to FB.
I will have to accept FB requests when I get home tonight as it’s blocked at work (booo work) and I left my cell phone at home. Is it the weekend yet?!
@infinitemonkey: I checked them. They’re fine. Perfect, in fact. ;) LOL
@Vengeful Harridan (Elexina): It is my destiny.
Facebook and boobies for all!
@Kaylia_Marie: Added myself as a follower on your blog last night, now I feel weird.
@Kaylia_Marie:
Maybe not for ALL… I almost got banned forever from Facebook for giving people a chance to become fans of my boobs.
@Elyse: Okay, if we can’t share the boobies, what is the point?
@tiger kitty: I thought it would be your density… ;-)
My name links to my rambling wrathful blog, but I don’t know if that links to my Facebook at all because I am not very good at this sort of thing. You can friend request me, though, if you want, but no pressure. Just be sure to tell me you’re from Skepchick or I will ignore you into oblivion…
I wasn’t even aware that the names could link to anything. Or I would shamelessly be whoring out my friendship via facebook.
@Vengeful Harridan (Elexina): I will high jack some post here when I set up an account and demand everyone friend me so I am not lost in the intertubes alone.
You mean I hav eto pick and choose? :-(
LOLcat for the ears. :-D
Bug_Girl, because she’s one of the few “real” scientists I know. I also am moderately interested in insect life.
Awww, Hell. All of you!
Boobies.
@MiddleMan: Really? Awesome! Don’t feel weird, I just found your blog today so I can start stalking, I mean, reading all your rants!
Now I wish I had a better blog up for today….
@Kaylia_Marie: Aw, thanks, but don’t feel obligated. Just the modern equivalent of babbling.
@MiddleMan: Oh I added you before I knew you added me… I liked your last post :)
@Kaylia_Marie: Damn, now I feel good, thanks. I liked the post you did on pickup lines.
@Elyse: One of the “joys” of facebook. antisemitism = A-OK, boobies = not so much.
@killyosaur42:
I guess you wouldn’t drive 11 hours round trip on a Saturday to shake hands with an antisemite… boobies on the other hand… drunk boobies…
Honestly, I think the fact that you did that makes you my favoritest reader.
@davew: I bet I’ll be on that one too.
Thanks for the love! It’s nice to be appreciated. I have to give props to the following people who came to me off the top of my head so sorry for neglecties, but it’s 1am here and I have insomnia (read: the tired stupids): QuestionAuthority, SomeCanadianSkeptic, Steve, Marilove, Kayla_Marie, GabrielBrawley, Oskar Kennedy, and…the rest. There are many many awesome people about. Most of you, in fact. Various reasons, the number one being the astounding hilarity of most of your comments and/or the general awesomeness of the comments and/or being a voice of reason during flameyness.
@Elyse: Well, thank you. And I had a blast and would do it again if and when the opportunity arises.
@tmarie: Whore it out! You know you wanna….
And, also, sans Quickies, I’m hopelessly bored.
I like marilove… not sure how much that has to do with boobs and the fact that I associate her with Eddie Izzard, though. :)
She’s also smart and diplomatic, even in heated fussing fights.
Okay, drunk enough to admit this now. The first time I logged on to this AI I was really hoping that at least one person would mention me. But I was also kind of scared that no one would and then I find me mentioned by multiples. You guys rock the casbaa. This is like the bestes circle jerk I has ever been in. I am really, really happy to be mentioned by so many peoples. Thank you all so much. Really, you guys are the best.
@Gabrielbrawley: You sound like a dick. Be nice asswipe.
@Gabrielbrawley: But, I’m trying to be nice. These guys have been so really nice to me. I’m trying to say thank you.
@Gabrielbrawley: STFU you damn drunk and go to bed. Ladies, gentelmen and those yet to decide thank you very much. We love you all.
Before you go to bed , I have just one question for you … Did you clean the gutters?
@Gabrielbrawley: And apparently I missed the orgy and need my gutters cleaned as well. And something about pelts. I’m not clear if I need to shave or not.
@tiger kitty: What? there was an orgy? Where the fuck was I… oh wait I remember, I was playing WoW. Seems to always be my luck.
@Gabrielbrawley:
I love you.