The xkcd meetup.

Speaking of dorky, I went to the xkcd meetup last weekend — here’s a bit of explanation — and it was indescribably awesome. Below are some highlights.

This was the first thing I saw when I got to the park:

There were a ton of inside jokes related to various xkcd strips. Here’s the sign from “Wikipedian Protester”:

And here’s the contest from “Tape Measure” in action:

My favorite was this poster that referenced “Cat Proximity”:

Another great sign, with an allusion to “Hyphen”:

Randall brought a bunch of giant posterboards and had the assembled masses write a new ending to the “Dream Girl” comic that inspired the meetup. He said he’d try to get them all scanned or photographed and put online at some point. (UPDATE: Here they are, and here are Randall’s thoughts on the meetup.) Here are some interim work-in-progress photos:

And lastly, me with the man himself. Maybe not the exact face I wanted to make (or Randall, probably), but what can you do?

There are tons more — see the rest of my pictures here, and over 1000 others in Flickr’s xkcd meetup group.

As a bonus, check out these crappy digital camera video clips I made! (Availability subject to my bandwidth getting raped, as I couldn’t be bothered to get them up on YouTube.)

1: The countdown
2: A bit of raptor dancing(sorry it’s sideways) (hey, it’s oriented properly now; thanks, xkcd forums!)
3: Wish You Were Here
4: Hotel California
5: “Bill Nye versus raptors!” (from item 62 on this list)
6: The “wah!” game