julia allison and the comic book guy might have a future together

Julia has declared a fondness for geeks in the past, but she's currently excited about the new reddit iPhone app (iReddit) -- or at least the commercial.

q&a with team reddit at [today's] new york meetup

We arrived in NY a couple nights ago to a hotel where the toilets flush powerfully enough to send a softball-sized object into low earth orbit. It's kinda scary, really.

The alien costume didn't make the trip; that's really for the best. (Bonus: HowTo make your own paper-maché alien head, but not guarantee it will survive a night of drinking -- coming soon)

Tonight is our New York open bar meetup. And it has been confirmed that Julia Allison will be attending. Gawker has been notified.

Oh, and you'll want to show up by around 9pm if you want to catch the Q&A we'll be having with team reddit. Think of it as your chance to ask all those questions you've never had the nerve to write in feedback email, only this time it will be after two hours of free booze and in the middle of a crowded (hopefully) bar.

What could go wrong? Hopefully some good YouTube material will come out of all this.

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.