I've come home!

[Kestra]

I went to this thing called W00tstock tonight and it was basically a nerd filled evening (including Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage) but that's not the point. The point is that the jokes and acts were all things I got, they were all terribly nerdy, and more importantly, everyone around me was laughing too!

I was like wow, I've come home. These are my people.

Have you guys ever gone somewhere or met a certain group of people and felt like that?

 

[Brent]

Yep, when i go to LAN parties, like Quakecon, I am at "home" feels good. Also at that experience tonight in Star Trek Online, was chatting over Vent with some people in our fleet, and we got into a discussion about Voyager and DS9 and captains and the prime directive, yep, I felt at "home" hehe, it was so geeky, but so awesome

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Have you guys ever gone somewhere or met a certain group of people and felt like that?

Right here.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOTBo85y08[/yt]

I'm in this scene, although not in the actual shot (I'm sitting a few rows behind the shouting guy at the beginning - that's Bald Vinny, our leader). Most fun I've ever had at any kind of sporting event. When I was out there, I *did* feel like I'd come home. I will come home again in about a week.

One thing that I really like about these people is that they are not at all condescending or skittish towards newbies like myself. As long as you abide by the (few, unwritten) rules, they're happy to have you.

 

[WillsBabe]

Have you guys ever gone somewhere or met a certain group of people and felt like that?

Trek convention, 1983. In the dealers' room I picked up a picture of Shatner. Someone over my shoulder made a comment, and in that moment I knew these were my people.

 

[doubleohfive]

Yes.

 

[gturner]

Yes, in the hospital when I saw the bug-eyed guy eating paint chips being berated by the shrieking woman who thinks her son is the King of England.

 

[Deckerd]

The Zone is home.

 

[An Officer]

Film and comic con - great experience.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I think I felt that way when I went to hang out with TrekBBS folks the first time. It was awesome!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Not really, no. I guess the places I go to are too ideologically diverse for me to truly feel like I belong there 100%.

When I do, I'll know.

 

[Dukat's Major]

Yep, I go to a complex systems school every year for three weeks in the summer (I help run it) for the past three years, and this is precisely how I feel (well, after the first harrowing few days, that is ).

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I went to this thing called W00tstock tonight and it was basically a nerd filled evening (including Wil Wheaton and Adam Savage) but that's not the point. The point is that the jokes and acts were all things I got, they were all terribly nerdy, and more importantly, everyone around me was laughing too!

I was like wow, I've come home. These are my people.

Sounds like it was a great time. So glad for you!

To answer the question, yes, but it's been a while, if you don't count posting on this board.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Oh! You went to w00tstock? I am so jealous. I wanted to go SO badly.

That being said, I felt that way the first time I walked into an upper level English class in college. We were waiting for the prof to get there, and Voyager's last season was running. Someone made a comment about it, I said that Janeway should kill Neelix to save the rest of us from having to pretend like we like him, someone else made a comment about women in positions of power...

One thing ran into another, and the entire class was having a discussing of feminist interpretations of Star Trek and how that related to influencing other sci-fi works and just literature in general as the prof walked in.

In that surreal moment, I knew I was home.

 

[sidious618]

No, I don't think I've ever had such a moment.

 

[Kestra]

it was so geeky, but so awesome

Exactly how I felt!

One thing that I really like about these people is that they are not at all condescending or skittish towards newbies like myself. As long as you abide by the (few, unwritten) rules, they're happy to have you.

That sounds pretty awesome. Glad you found a group of people like that!

Someone over my shoulder made a comment, and in that moment I knew these were my people.

Now you have to tell us what the comment was!

The Zone is home.

This worries me.

Film and comic con - great experience.

I haven't gone to a con in a long long time; do you go regularly?

I think I felt that way when I went to hang out with TrekBBS folks the first time. It was awesome!

Umm ...

No, I don't think I've ever had such a moment.

...

Yep, I go to a complex systems school every year for three weeks in the summer (I help run it) for the past three years, and this is precisely how I feel (well, after the first harrowing few days, that is ).

I have no idea what that is, but it sounds like you enjoy it quite a bit.

To answer the question, yes, but it's been a while, if you don't count posting on this board.

Don't see why the board wouldn't count, if it makes you feel that way.

Oh! You went to w00tstock? I am so jealous. I wanted to go SO badly.

Yeah, my husband snagged tickets. I would never have heard of it otherwise. We went with my brother and his poor fiancee who got maybe 30% of the jokes, if that. I feel like I need to take her on a tour of the internets now.

Re: Janeway, they were doing a bit and asked the audience who their favorite captain was. The response was overwhelmingly "Picard" but one poor woman yelled out "Janeway" and the proceeded to be mocked by Wil Wheaton.

 

[sbk1234]

Only among sci-fi fans.

 

[B.J.]

I felt immediately at home during my first day of band practice in college. This was at an engineering school, so I had multiple layers of geekery thrown at me. Even though it's been 13 years since I got my degree, I still refer to that group as 300 of my closest friends.
That was also responsible for myself and many of my friends getting hitched during or just after graduating.

 

[Mary Ann]

I must make my way to a convention one year...

Several years ago I was reading a Stephen Jay Gould book on a train and the person sitting opposite me started a conversation about Gould. I have a degree in sociology and cultural anthropology but at that time I was a full-time mom and my brain was turning into goo. It was so satisfying to have an intellectual conversation with another Gould geek at a time when I was dispairing ever using my brain for anything academic again.

 

[greenguy]

Blargh, Kestra, I missed out and had no idea it was this weekend!

 

[Kestra]

Awww, try to go next year if they do it again. There are clips on youtube and stuff, don't know if you'll find it funny. Look around on twitter and you'll find links.

I was actually going to post something about it in the Meet-ups forum in case anyone else from Chicago was going, but I'm somewhat terrified at the thought of actually meeting anyone from here so I decided against it.