redditors doodle: thursday

I was really hesitant to post this. Marc Yelloz submitted this on Tuesday, after we'd vetted the first batch of logos and I plugged them into a private reddit poll to let the rest of the team vote them up/down.

I should have never told Marc how impressed we were, because he proceeded to send a few more. They were all lovely, but the problem is that each one puts me one step closer to being out of a job. So at great professional risk to myself, I decided to upload his first submission for today's redditor doodle (and will put his other two submissions online this weekend).

He didn't have a site to plug, but that's OK; I'll use this opportunity to thank "repptide: The Tide of Opinion" for advertising on redditAll.com -- thanks! But all the props in this entry really should go to Marc for his swell doodles.

Confession: This movie scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it. And the next six times. To this day I refuse to use white plastic trash bags because they remind of when that task force came to take away E.T.

Bastards.Conversely, I suddenly have a craving for Reese's Pieces...

(I wonder how much they spent for that product placement.)

valleywag mocks: reddit sf meetup officially a success

It's a little known fact that Justin was just like this long before Justin.tv. Steve Huffman never used to carry him so lovingly, though.

I warned friends that I'd lose my job if Valleywag didn't cover our open bar meetup last night. I even considered telling them Julia Allison would be in attendance.

But they wrote about it anyway. Suckers...

Although I wish there had been a bit more snark, the photos they took are much better than my flickr set (tagged "reddit-sf-meetup" if you'd like to share your own). Same pics on facebook, too.

The event last night was by our measure a success -- much free beer was consumed and we got to meet a bunch of redditors. We even had a spammer show up. That must have meant our event was worth spamming. I've been told that in SF, this is one of the highest compliments you can get.

Thanks to all of you who showed up. And for not getting into any brawls. No one wants to see geeks fight in real life. Especially drunk.

Oh, and it was a treat seeing a few diggers in attendance. There are some reddit shirts being mailed to them right this moment.

**Big thanks to Kristen for taking all of the above flickr photos.