January 20, 2004
As promised, the rest of the pics I made at last night's Firefly Shindig
I have one more entry to write after this one, an actual writeup of my impressions of the event, but as promised earlier today, I'm putting up the rest of the (useable) pics from my tiny Sony CyberShotU digicam, after a bit of cropping, enhancement, and redeye reduction:
In the foreground are Alan Weiss ("WINBEAR2" on the Fox Firefly Forum) and a nice lady whose name I've forgotten (apologies!) Alan is a libertarian friend of mine from the smith2004-discuss list, visiting from Austin for the week on business, and the mystery lady is a Democrat activist... proof that disparate fans can booze together and have fun! Old friend Dr. Kurth Reynolds ("yes, I actually am a rocket scientist!") is lurking in the background over her shoulder.
Kim ("EARTH2KIM" on the Fox Firefly Forum), me, and Jeff Chan. Kim, like me, is an enthusiastic newbie. Here she's holding up a Firefly "Keep Flying!" patch.
Have you ever been introduced to someone but can't recall their name, through no lack of interest, but simply because you're the host and you're tasked with remembering everyone's name? Well, I'll admit with embarrassment that I didn't get this lady's name... but I put up her picture anyway. I'm assuming I'll see her next time!
[UPDATE: I mixed this lady's name up with the lady in the first picture. This is Patti Henkhaus from the "firefly_over_30" Yahoo! Groups list; sorry about that Patti!]
Kim, again with "Keep Flying!" patch and Jeff Chan.
Longtime extropian friends Kennita Watson and Terry Egan, and recently-acquired-2nd-Amendment-purist-buddy Mark Quon (aka "Genghis Khan") out in the parking lot after the beerhall shut down. Can you see it in the guys' faces?
Me (Russell Whitaker) on the left, Alan ('WINBEAR2' on the Fox Firefly Forum) Weiss on the right... before he remembered to smile!!
Belaboring the already-known, it's me again, with Mark and Jeff. This is not a vanity blog. Really.
This was a great little event and, as I mentioned, I'll be writing some general impressions of it in the next 24 hours or so. I did want to get the pics out there first, of course, so here they are. Enjoy.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at January 20, 2004 09:48 PM | TrackBackThe woman in the picture ( third from the top )introduced herself as "Patty" . Fred Moulton may know her complete name.
Posted by: Terry Egan on January 21, 2004 12:29 PMTerry, she emailed me as "Patti"; same first name, different spelling... but without informing me of her surname in email or in person. I guess it's not important, as long as she labled what she calls herself to others.
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on January 21, 2004 08:23 PMOK, just found out her full name is "Patti Henkhaus".
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on January 21, 2004 08:40 PMFYI, I've just now "revised history", changing the first occurance of the word "Patti" in the article to read "Patti Henkhaus." I'm saying this to avoid confusion on the part of those who actually read the blog article copy and then read the comments, in order. Historical consistency and all that.
Posted by: Russell Whitaker on January 21, 2004 08:47 PMRussell! You're a genius (as you know), and your ability to organize a fun, successful shindig assures your place in history (or at least my heart). The pictures were great, and I had a great time meeting your friends, but most of all yourself and Mark (Ghengis Khan). Lets go shooting tomorrow in SJC and party-hearty before I have to fly home to Austin.
Yours,
Alan
Posted by: Alan R. Weiss on January 22, 2004 10:56 PMThe woman in the top shot is Alison Abramowitz, a fixture in local fannish circles.
Posted by: Anton Sherwood on February 10, 2004 12:43 AM