April 30, 2008
Bostonist Went To ROFLCon And All We Got Was This Brawndo Hangover
ROFLCon invaded Cambridge over the weekend, storming MIT's lecture halls and colonizing the bars of Central Square with novelty t-shirts. Bostonist knows that the Internet is always talking to itself, about itself, but it was surreal to be in the room while that was happening.
Case in point: this guy sat in front of us during a web comics panel, watching the live webcast and browsing Flickr images of the very talk that he was at. And then we took a picture of it (above). Those are the Brothers Chaps' elbows shown at the highest degree of meta- allowed by Bostonist.
Blank speech-bubbles appeared everywhere. This one made us glad that the Svedka sexbot is, by default, mute.
As promised, the TripAdvisor Owl rumbled with the Firefox. Bostonist didn't stay to see who vanquished whom, but we hear it ended in free pizza. Everybody won.
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Interestingly enough, that's *me* watching the live feed on my computer from the front row. And here I am commenting on my watching on your post.
Major props for linking to our website, hrwiki.org. I was there primarily covering the appearance of the Chaps.
(Also: first.)
Whoops, correction on my linking, that's hrwiki.org.
Tom,
My head just exploded.
Thanks,
C. Fernsebner