There will be a Michigan rationalist/LW/SSC meetup at my house, halfway between Detroit and Ann Arbor, on Sunday, June 8th at 2 PM. You can find my address and directions here
Topic will be “Yes, It’s Another Michigan Meetup”
Ozy is now a permanent Michigan resident, so there is no Special Guest. If you are coming from afar, let me know and I will add your name as the Special Guest.
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Okay. I really, REALLY need to get out of Podunk.
Serious question: Should I vector towards Detroit / Ann Arbor, or the Bay Area? And how likely is it that I’d rub you guys the wrong way, if I DID move towards Ann Arbor? (Full disclosure: I’m pretty severely dysthymic, and tend to descend into panicked histrionics whenever life throws me more than major disruptions in rapid sequence)
I miss being around smart, creative people. (An avid tabletop gaming community would be a plus)
Bay Area. We have meetups once every two months, nothing in between, and I am sufficiently antisocial that I would probably be annoyed at requests to have them more often. The Bay Area is full of hundreds of people, has a thriving community of all types of people that does stuff all the time, and is also much nicer and has better job prospects. I will move there as soon as I finish my job here.
*nod* well, that settles that then. Thanks!
Where are you now? I’m in Northern Virginia and very fond of board games.
Twin Falls, Idaho. I left Phoenix Arizona for here after burning out all of the Phoenix community’s goodwill with my mental health drama.
The New York LW community is also pretty good.
Whether or not the Bay Area is an option depends on your finances.
Well, I have a LOT of medical debt, but I am also a pretty good computer programmer. On the gripping hand, I’m not conventionally hirable due to mental instability. 🙁
If you’re looking somewhere better than nowhere but cheaper than the bay Madison WI has a thriving gaming community and lots of smart people
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Hm — I might be able to show up, but I have no way of getting there, and I also would need to leave by a little after 7 or so, which means that if someone were to offer to drive me there/back it could put restrictions on them as well. So, uncertain.
Where do you come from? I’m coming from Ann Arbor, and can offer a lift.
Yes, Ann Arbor. Thank you a bunch!
No problem. PM me (torekp) at my lesswrong account to set up the time & place for pickup.
I have an off-topic LW-related comment, and don’t actually know anywhere else to send it (while I presume somebody reading this does).
I noticed what seems to be a Reddit layout update yesterday. I have been unable to vote/reply/expand collapsed comments, etc, on either Reddit or LessWrong since that update appeared. When I tried posting this in the latest Open Thread on LW, my address bar changed to http://lesswrong.com/post/comment or some such, and sat there; the comment did not appear when I concluded my browser wasn’t loading anything and refreshed the open thread.
I’m using Firefox with NVDA and Adblock+. Suggestions are welcome.
Sorry for the off topic.
The problem has been resolved. Working hypothesis is that my browser was sending the wrong identification and I was getting a layout intended for a different OS/browser combination, but if something else was changed I’m none the less appreciative.
(Evidence for hypothesis: everything was better after an unexpected browser crash, and I noticed other websites mysteriously changing layouts thereafter.)
Count two new people from the Ann Arbor area in!