2007 09 23 14 28 00 xkcd

[bolson]

The meetup of the comic was awesome. Best mob of nerds I've ever been to (yes, best and only). It was quite festive, must have been 1000 people there at peak.

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For a brief time, on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the twenty-third of September, the year commonly referred to as Two Thousand Seven, a small park in Cambridge Massachusets ...

... was transformed into something different

From this:

into this:

People gathered from near and far, drawn to a precise coordinate in space and time.

The event also attracted raptors.

Worshipers flocked to the pyramid of power that was closest to the spatial coordinate:

There was a countdown to 2007-09-23 14:38:00 Watch on YouTube

Hi! (That's me in the orange at the bottom.)

It was a joyous festival, complete with a springy mattress for jumping on.

All your base are belong to this keyboard.

They keyboard was found in a tent shrine full of references to the comic.

I don't know who this is, but I think it's an awesome picture.

I eventually also made it to the top.

The original comic was amended, this time, the events at that time and space were different.

But eventually all evidence was taken away.

And the playground returned to being just a playground.

Comments

[devreux.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I'm so glad you were able to go! :D (I'm one of the many thousands of readers whose schedules and budgets did not intersect in such a way as to enable attendance.)