STUB
Last night, I braved the cold and head out to STUB. STUB stands for the Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade and is a collection of seriously geeky guys and girls that are avid users of Twitter. I have seen the postings for a few STUB gatherings but have always been too scared to go. However, now I have connected on Twitter with a few more STUB members and the fact that my girlfriend and some of her work colleagues were going, I decided to just get over my fears and go.
I am extremely glad that I did because I meet some great people. I had a wonderful conversation with Warlach, WillHughes and Kimota about D&D, Magic The Gathering and Phone Condoms (best not to ask). KImota, Lelak and I then had a long discussion about Doctor Who, in particular the brand new season.
Unfortunately, there were quite a few people that I said brief hellos to but didn’t get to talk longer to like Alegrya and Goaldeebug. Definitely will have to catch with them for longer at the next gathering.
Late in the night, I found myself as part of a group lead by Stilgherrian having an amazing discussion about new media and how no one had quite figured out the direction it was heading in. I am nowhere near the calibre of geek that these guys were at, so I was absorbing everything they said like a little sponge, cause I just love new media. Hopefully I made intelligent enough comments that I didn’t give away my status as a low calibre geek.
Whilst there I ran into an interesting dilemma. At Blogger meetups I introduce myself as Riayn because my actual first name is so damn common that nearly every second blogger has it, including some really cool celebrity bloggers. However, at STUB quite a few people already knew me from the real world so I introduced myself most of time by my actual name. This lead to this exchange with one girl;
Me: Hi, I am <my actual name>
Girl: Are you <name of famous blogger>?
Me: No, sorry.
Girl: Oh * looks majorily disappointed*
She didn’t want to have anything to do with me after that. I tried to start a conversation, but she was so adamant not to talk to me that I quickly walked away. It just goes to prove that I should introduce myself as Riayn all the time, so that people don’t think that I might be someone really cool and famous in the blogosphere.
Other than that exchange, everyone was amazingly friendly and I had a great time chatting to everyone. If you are not on Twitter already, what are you waiting for? Jump on there and start Twittering. Just add friends of people you know, like me and you will soon get into the swing of it. It reminds me very much of the old IRC channels where everyone just sits around and chats about everything and nothing. I find it a great way to past the time during the slow times at work.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
But you are someone cool and famous in the Blogosphere!!!!
Coz I said so, dammit!
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May 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Aww Jayne, thank you.
May 24th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
It reminds me of a “Geek Dinner” I went to the other night. The first thing one woman would say to everyone was, “So what do you do in new media?” Well, I don’t work in new media, so she didn’t want to talk to me. It was a weird vibe.
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May 24th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Jodi: How rude! Gee, not everyone that is a geek works in new media. The geek community can really do without people like that. How was the rest of the dinner? I have always wanted to go to a Girl Geek Dinner, but I fear I won’t be geeky enough to fit in.