At the latest St. Louis Atheist meet-up group, I was finally convinced to go to The Amazing Meeting. I’d been debating it internally in my head for months now, because it’s not like I’m strapped for cash or anything (I’m just a cheap bastard), but I guess I can’t pass up the opportunity to meet a lot of like-minded skeptics, the kind of people I can approach at a bar, say “How ’bout that homeopathy?”, and then engage in a long discussion of the ridiculousness of alternative medicine. Try that in a normal bar and people either stare at you blankly, begin raving about their naturopathic doctor or chiropractor, or else think you are trying to come out of the closet to them.

When I was telling my family and people at work that I was going to Las Vegas, most of them assumed I would be gambling, or drinking, or having sex with prostitutes. Of course, while I will probably end up drinking and having sex with prostitutes, I told a few people that my real purpose was to go to a skepticism and science conference of sorts. Most of them looked at me in stunned silence, as if I were insane. I tried to explain that basically you go there to talk about science and skepticism, and then later get drunk and/or party with people who also enjoy science and skepticism, but still the stares of incomprehension persisted. Oh well.

At any rate, if any of the readers/commenters of this blog will be attending TAM 7 in Vegas, I’d love to meet you guys. Hopefully I’ll be wearing my Saintgasoline Unintelligent Design Venn diagram shirt on at least one of the days, unless I soil it after vomiting profusely all over myself from a long night out, so you can easily identify me. Or you can recognize me by looking for that character in the header of my website. You can also try to search out the person having a very inappropriate conversation, as that tends to be me when I loosen up a bit around people. But leave a comment if you’ll be there and want to say hi or have a discussion or get crunk with me while there! I’d love to meet my blog groupies!

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