i.e. meeting in "real life". I haven't. It would be fun though.

Yes, I have met "Sudevan", in an attempt to help him with his TP600, then 600E. Infact, I think we met a total of 3-4 times, including lunch one day. Suevan is a very nice person, I might add.

I know that Ray has met people face to face...

So far only one person... Met with junknstuff for about 1/2 hour in an attempt to diagnose a non-power-up issue with his T20:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=32655

Since there are several people here that are in my area, I'll probably have more chances in the future.

I have not either, but pianowizard, I was in Provi last week, off Attwells.

How about admiring each other's Thinkpad collection (many people on this forum have dozens), or trading computers/parts?

Agree with you. Trade sometime can happen, but not that interesting.I rarely see people make friends with buyers / sellers.

Spiders? Real spiders? Kind of interesting.

I like music, photography. Like cars but cannot afford a fancy car now.

Linux? maybe. I do not use Linux now. I owned a Linux public server years ago.

Actually, Alphakilo470 is one of my good friends and lives less than 2 miles from me. He was the one that turned me to this forum in the first place.

Well, consider yourself one of my friends as well, because any friend of Alex is a friend of mine...

Anyone up for skiing/snowboarding in the Poconos?

I just met The Spirit of X21 in my office and we talked about computers for over three hours. I met Turbo Audi, also in my office, back in January when we traded our Thinkpads, and vanaya in a restaurant in Houston TX when he bought an AC adapter from me. All of them are nice people.

Lucky you!! I have met one forum user who is also at UF - jackky. He bought a apple keyboard and a mouse from me, but we din't get to talk.

The other (whom I have interacted with, that is) people living anywhere "near" where I am are Yak (brainpicker) and of course, Bill ... maybe sometime I'll go visit them )

Oh please do not rush our Pennsylvania winters But anyone visiting PA is welcome at our house!

Dan, you can visit RealBlackStuff, I think he moved to the Poconos.

Bill M. is the only other ThinkPads.com participant that I have met in person... and we each live on, more or less, opposite sides of the planet!

Cheers,

Bill B.

Purcy, what a timely response!!

Wasn't he from Europe?

For some reason I thought he was living in Ireland? He said he and his family would be moving to PA in July.

That makes sense with the whole Guinness thing.

Haven't met anybody, but if the wind ever takes you to Athens let me know

Well i dont think anyone will be up my way...In St John's , Newfoundland , Canada.
Nice place to stop by and see.Lot's of Icebergs out in front of the house now......

Oh, may I kindly ask that you take some photos and post them in the Post Your Desktop section?? I would love to see that.

Will do.
I still have them on the flach card on the cam.They were taken last month.

Hi girls and guys,
We are currently officially homeless, as our house in Ireland was finally sold on June 29. Our household gear is in storage in New York already.

At the moment we are in Norway. On July 27 we are off to Italy, then on August 18 on to Switzerland for the wedding of our oldest daughter. On August 27 back to Ireland, and finally on August 30 we fly out to New York/JFK and drive on to some rented accommodation in PA.

We'll then have to start house hunting in PA straight away.
As perhaps mentioned before, our chosen area is North Pocono, with the Moscow area the focus of our search.
We'll let you know as we progress.

Wow, talk about world travelers! Have a wonderful summer, and congrats on your daughter's marriage. Welcome to Pennsylvania be sure you have your snow boots in good repair.

Well i met Ed (underclocker) and Dan (MD_Lieber) Bought some stuff and they happent o live in the area so just met em and had a talk for a bit then was on our way

We should have a DC meet with lots of Thinkpads

Not yet. There seem to be precious few members in the Pacific NW area. However, I'll be moving to Gainesville, FL in about two years. I know the TP density is higher there.^^

Blues Festival in Cincinnati this weekend. Anyone going? I'll buy you a beer. But I probably won't bring any of my Thinkpads, too hot to have them outside.

Mike

Nah but next time in the USA who knows; since most members seem to be in the US. Maybe that'll be my next mission Anyone in the Brighton/Worthing vicinity, more than welcome to give me a shout to talk geek fluff!

Are you coming to UF? You can contact me when you come here, I should be there till 2010 atleast

Reviving this thread for an update...

Spent almost two hours meeting with Purcy and her significant other while they were in town (San Jose). It was great being able to finally converse face-to-face with somebody you have "talked" to via threads, PMs and emails for almost exactly one year. Covered many topics (not ALL computer or Thinkpad related ) and was sorry to have to end our meeting when they had to leave for an appointment.

A funny Thinkpad moment: Purcy pointed out two people hunched over a TP across the lobby from us and asked what I thought it might be. A quick glance at the back panel led me to think "T4x" (purple parallel port was the only thing on the back besides the DC jack). Then with a second, longer stare, I saw the single lid latch on the right side and the wireless antenna window on the "top" edge. Don't know if it might have been anything else since my most "modern" system is a T41.

As far as I am aware, *60 series don't have a parallel port on the back.

And I've definitely played identify-the-Thinkpad myself as well.

I need to add an update: It turned out that I had met Syedj in Boston in around Oct 2006 when I sold an A31p to him via Craigslist. I had no idea he was a member of this forum until several weeks ago!