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Xkcd book tour announced - meet Randall Sept 22nd at Y Combinator
- kn0thing 17y agoThe YC crew has graciously let us use their space for the event. I can't think of a better setting for a meet & greet with Randall then to be surrounded by Trevor's robots.
- rjurney 17y agoBid is in. Looking forward to this.
- kn0thing 17y agoThank you! I don't know that in Lao, but the future students of the 'xkcd school for kids who can't do romance, sarcasm, math, and language good' no doubt appreciate it as much as I do. edit: or maybe they're all Garfield fans. We can get them on the right path.
- mr_luc 17y agoIt's approximately "koap chai". To make it extra enthusiastic, throw a couple of "lai"s on the end. (mr_luc once learned enough Lao to do basic public speaking in that language, for reasons that the mists of five years ago have now rendered hazy).
- timcederman 17y agoNo Boston? Darn.
- PStamatiou 17y agoNo Atlanta? Darn.
- kn0thing 17y agoWorking on that one. It's a short commute for Randall :) so when Berkman had some snags, we didn't fret.
- JacobAldridge 17y agoNo Brisbane, Australia. Darn.
- kn0thing 17y agoThat's on the Green Line, isn't it?
- fuzzmeister 17y agoJust past Chestnut Hill, actually.
- timcederman 17y agoI catch the green line out just past Chestnut Hill every day and there certainly isn't a Brisbane, Australia out there, or I'd be at Gelateria Cremona every day. (I'm from Brisbane originally)
- JacobAldridge 17y agoI actually took my now-wife to the Gelateria Cremona on one of our first dates. Had completely forgotten it existed ... I sense a return sometime soon.
- dkersten 17y agoDublin, Ireland???
- timcederman 17y agoCambridge/Somerville also works.
- zaatar 17y agoNo Seattle? :( There's a lot of us folks at Microsoft/Google/Amazon that gr0k xkcd and would love to be there :)
- jrandom 17y agoAgreed. If he came to Seattle, I'd show up/donate/spend money/whatnot.
- modoc 17y agoSecond for Boston. Big tech city, lots of fans.
- daniel-cussen 17y agoNo Santiago de Chile? Darn...or,,, obviously.
- vegashacker 17y agoI don't see information on the SF event. What time is it at, and where is it?
- kn0thing 17y agoWe're also doing a [reddit-powered interview with Randall](http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ihy8/ask_randall_munroe_xkcd_anything_hear_him_answer/ http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ihy8/ask_randall_munroe_xkcd...) - he'll answer the top 10 questions at the SF event (if you can't make it, we'll be live [on justin.tv](http://justin.tv/reddit http://justin.tv/reddit). Geek Reading starts at 7 p.m. at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Please RSVP to events@eff.org. Admission is $30, and attendees must be 21+.
- dfranke 17y agoThat's literally across the street from where I work... guess I'll be there.
- fallintothis 17y agoSomebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoWhy doesn't HN use markdown?
- SwellJoe 17y agoHN does use Markdown...it's just a very incomplete implementation. Since HN is written in Arc, there would have been no off-the-shelf parser, and I assume pg opted to use the simplest subset that would work. There also seems to be an aversion to fancy-pants stuff on HN, so it may be intentional. Why get clever when clarity isn't improved by doing so? (That said, I kinda miss having full Markdown link support.)
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- NathanKP 17y agoWhat a fantastic announcement. Sadly I live nowhere near any of the planned stops. I'm definitely looking forward to the book though.
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoI have a feeling that I ran into Randall on the train in Tokyo last week. There was a guy that was wearing a shirt that said "XKCD" and I said "I like your shirt." He just said thanks, and something about his expression made me wonder if it was him. It didn't dawn on me until after he stepped off. I could be wrong (obviously wrong if he wasn't in Japan last week :-) ) but it sure did look like him.
- furyg3 17y agoCome to Amsterdam :)