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Title: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 07, 2008, 09:26:33 am
If they can have one, then so can we...

soooo
a) when
b) where
c) who's going to come :)

discuss
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Turambar on April 07, 2008, 10:08:22 am
East Coast

after Finals

i'll come!
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: IPAndrews on April 07, 2008, 10:54:37 am
"they"? Don't talk about your superiors that way :D.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2008, 11:56:31 am
I love it how NEITHER thread has attendees spelled correctly. :p
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: an0n on April 07, 2008, 01:43:01 pm
I'll head out eventually, but I'd like to buy a burger van first.

So.... *shrugs*
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: WeatherOp on April 07, 2008, 01:58:14 pm
I'd rather die.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 07, 2008, 02:09:07 pm
I love it how NEITHER thread has attendees spelled correctly. :p

i just copied/pasted the thread title (wanted it to look exactly the same), and changed London to USA :)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Inquisitor on April 07, 2008, 02:51:00 pm
I live in Boston. My son is due May 32st, so, I expect I will be out of pocket a good chunk of the summer. There are a few HLP folk I would like to meet, and some I wouldn't ;)

There is a more or less standing invitation for folks to ping me if they are ever in town. If I can make it work, I am happy to share a pint.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: redsniper on April 07, 2008, 02:53:39 pm
Quote
32st
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2008, 02:54:10 pm
My son is due May 32st

I need not say anymore. :p
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 07, 2008, 03:04:54 pm
How does that even inflect? Thirty-secost? Yeah yeah, I get it. A typo. I didn't want to point it out, but they started.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 07, 2008, 04:08:59 pm
Hmm. Well, Goober's near Washington, and I'm near Philly, and we meet every once in a while. I had a rendezvous with Sandwich in New York when he was over here visting family.

I guess the best bet would be for all of us to post our real-world locations, and if any of us are making a trip to someone else's locale, to PM them and look them up.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 07, 2008, 05:19:34 pm
I second this.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: redsniper on April 07, 2008, 05:34:32 pm
There's a good chance I'll be all over the Northeast in August.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Goober5000 on April 07, 2008, 10:17:04 pm
DC has the largest number of people within a 12-hour drive than any other city in the USA. :D
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: redsniper on April 07, 2008, 10:29:17 pm
Do you mean HLPeople or all people? or both?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Goober5000 on April 07, 2008, 11:12:08 pm
USA people.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: CP5670 on April 07, 2008, 11:34:54 pm
DC works for me. I'm not living there anymore but my parents are in the outskirts and I tend to go there every two months or so.

Although there's no way I would go if it was a 12 hour drive. :p
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: watsisname on April 07, 2008, 11:54:54 pm
I'm pretty close to DC too so that'd be pretty sweet, otherwise something within a days drive might be possible.  Sometime in the summer months (June-August) would work well. :)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: phreak on April 08, 2008, 12:08:47 am
DC has the largest number of people within a 12-hour drive than any other city in the USA. :D

Well its about 6 for me, would be a nice long weekend.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 08, 2008, 08:04:56 am
DC is manageable. Weekends are really great as far as accomodations go, too--you can get some nice deals on hotels in Arlington. After all, they have all this space, but they're only using it during the week.

August is a good month, too, as most everyone has some time to travel that month, and it's far enough ahead in the future that we can request off from our respective workplaces.

There are five weekends available. Think we should pick one? :D
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Wobble73 on April 08, 2008, 10:56:14 am
I live in Boston. My son is due May 32st, so, I expect I will be out of pocket a good chunk of the summer.

Your son will be 32 stone when he's born!!!!  :eek2:

You won't be out of pocket for very long, advertisers and newspapers will be throwing money at you!
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: CP5670 on April 08, 2008, 11:01:44 am
DC is manageable. Weekends are really great as far as accomodations go, too--you can get some nice deals on hotels in Arlington. After all, they have all this space, but they're only using it during the week.

August is a good month, too, as most everyone has some time to travel that month, and it's far enough ahead in the future that we can request off from our respective workplaces.

There are five weekends available. Think we should pick one? :D

I will be over there at the end of August anyway, for this (http://www.brickfair.com). Some time that weekend would be good for me. Earlier in the month may work, but I can't say for sure. I may be working somewhere in the summer and haven't finalized my plans for that yet.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 08, 2008, 11:10:53 am
i say we do later... after summer.  because i have plans this whole summer.  i'll be in NYC July 4th for a week, but have plans, otherwise i'd meet up.

so i guess meeting in DC (or thereabouts) seems to be the concensus?  fine with me!
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 08, 2008, 11:24:12 am
ooooooh.... BrickFair. I think it's safe to say that if Goober and I can meet you there we will. Are you registering?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: CP5670 on April 08, 2008, 11:38:26 am
Yes, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 09, 2008, 03:39:40 pm
sorry, no way i'm going to a lego meet....

we're older now guys... we're supposed to go to a bar or something...
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 09, 2008, 03:53:22 pm
Oh of course we'll go to a bar and just hang out, but if a few of us want to head over to the public expo for a few hours, why not? :D
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on April 09, 2008, 04:13:28 pm
It's a long time for me (Upstate NY) to DC. I won't be able to stop in to any meet on the way down. I'll be in Miami in September.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 09, 2008, 06:54:20 pm
sooo when's this gonna happen?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 09, 2008, 07:19:13 pm
Last weekend in August (29, 30, 31) looks like.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on April 09, 2008, 07:33:10 pm
Where though?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 09, 2008, 10:41:32 pm
also depends who's in...

as much as i love ya'll, i don't think i'd be up for spending $700 out of pocket to come and hang out with 2 of you.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 09, 2008, 11:12:55 pm
If it's any further east than Carson City I'm out.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuke on April 09, 2008, 11:14:56 pm
yea i liked the idea of the Chicago meet but anything off of alaska airlines routes is out of the question. also you want to do it somewhere with a big airport hub since a good many of us would have to fly in. i dont currently have the funds for anything at the moment.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 10, 2008, 09:01:40 am
well if you want a big airport hub, houston is the place to meet... it also happens to be the headquarters for continental and another airline (i forget which)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on April 10, 2008, 06:31:02 pm
Chicago should be fine for a "huge airport hub", but I'd think we need some local HLP'ers to be there, to save money on taxis. I'm actually thinking of going to a meet in New Brunswick, NJ, with a number of overclockers and crunchers from XS.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: CP5670 on April 10, 2008, 06:48:00 pm
Interesting. New Brunswick is something like a 15 minute drive from where I live.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: BrotherBryon on April 10, 2008, 07:03:16 pm
There is a Rush concert in the D.C. area July 19th that I was thinking of going to. Only a 4 hour trip for me and my younger brother lives in Germantown MD.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Goober5000 on April 10, 2008, 10:04:38 pm
CP, I thought you lived in MD?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 10, 2008, 10:33:55 pm
if all of us fly into the same airport at MORE OR LESS the same time, then i'll just rent a limo or something, so we can all hang out at the airport for a few hours till we all arrive (sit at a restaurant or something - stay in touch via cells), and then when we're all there, get the limo to take us to our hotel (we'll all stay in the same hotel of course)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuke on April 10, 2008, 11:39:45 pm
is this gonna be one meet or is it gonna be a bunch of regional ones? i could probably go to a big one, so long as it has a nearby a big name theme park. i don't know if a regional will cut it might be interesting but probably not worth the cash if its alot  (unless it coincides with a death/black metal concert/festival). what we can do is merge the two hlp partys together and we can all go to canada and have the party at axems place :D

is absinthe legal there? and what about weed
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: CP5670 on April 10, 2008, 11:56:36 pm
CP, I thought you lived in MD?

I moved last summer.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 11, 2008, 11:25:04 am
Whats the budget for your entertainment guys?

I may well provide strippers and paintball, or just paintball strippers..........
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 11, 2008, 01:43:19 pm
no strippers.  morally clean.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Mobius on April 11, 2008, 03:21:11 pm
I'm in Italy :(
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: watsisname on April 11, 2008, 03:24:05 pm
Try the HLP London thread, assuming that's not too far for you. :)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Mobius on April 11, 2008, 03:34:27 pm
But I'm not English...
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 11, 2008, 03:37:59 pm
I fail to see the problem here. People are planning two separate HLP meetings. One in the Yanks and one somewhere around London. Choose or skip.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Mobius on April 11, 2008, 03:49:15 pm
But I am a Yank, not an Englishman...duh...
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on April 11, 2008, 05:20:44 pm
Mobius--fly to the USA so I can smack some sense into you! :lol: And get on MSN for once. I go on most days but you're never on. :doubt:

Anyways--CP--we're looking at a late-August date for the meet with XS members.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 11, 2008, 06:24:23 pm
who's coming up with these dates?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 11, 2008, 11:30:42 pm
But I am a Yank, not an Englishman...duh...[/i][/color]
Well, fly off to Yankeeland, then. Geez. Why is it so hard? Choose: the USA meeting, the London meeting or Home Sweet Home. Or arrange your very own HLP Rome meeting or something. Even the period after this sentence cares.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Mobius on April 11, 2008, 11:54:10 pm
Quote
Useful counterarguments to be used in a debate. Guaranteed victory:
IDIOT
IDIOT IDIOT
IDIOTS

*Ignoring the opposition*

:P
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: watsisname on April 12, 2008, 12:09:42 am
 :wtf:
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Jeff Vader on April 12, 2008, 12:45:08 am
:wtf:
A prime example of a good debate (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53207.80.html)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Mobius on April 12, 2008, 12:46:03 am
lol
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Nuke on April 13, 2008, 08:38:58 am
it would be cool if he showed up at the meet, we could steal all his little colored pegs. :D
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 15, 2008, 02:45:11 pm
this has the potential to be a lot of fun, btw...
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Black Wolf on April 25, 2008, 05:44:24 am
Totally unrelated, I'm aiming to be in the US either in Late September/Early October or Late Jan early Feb of 2009 depending on whether it's at the beginning or the end of my trip. Going to New York, Minnesota and Pennsylvania to visit friends and possibly LA if I can get a free stopover on my way back home. So if anyone will be in that area at those times, let me know.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on April 25, 2008, 12:31:14 pm
I will!!! :D

srsly, send me an email or something. You're like the first person I ever got to know in the community.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on April 25, 2008, 07:08:23 pm
let me know too; i'll join ya'll if it's OK :)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Galemp on August 01, 2008, 02:52:11 pm
M-M-M-MONSTER BUMP!!!

So it's August. Are we still up for this? Goobie, CP and myself are all going to be in the Washington DC area Labor Day Weekend, though of course it doesn't all have to revolve around Lego. :)
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Colonol Dekker on August 01, 2008, 03:45:34 pm
M-M-M-MONSTER BUMP!!!

Don't get P1553d and climb the whitehouse fence.........................unless you really want to :lol:
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Stealth on August 02, 2008, 01:00:22 am
sry, visiting gf in dallas on labor day weekend.

can we do it a little later?  mid to late september? :/
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on August 02, 2008, 09:32:15 am
South Beach (Miami) sound good?
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: watsisname on August 03, 2008, 03:00:09 am
I'm thinking the DC area or somewhere in the midsection of the east coast would be closer to more people.
Title: Re: Possible HLP USA Atendees
Post by: Bob-san on August 03, 2008, 09:20:20 am
Miami would be more fun, though.