Qt3 in real life

I live in Greenville, I’ll be here, but won’t really be able to travel far.

I won’t be able to go hit the full eclipse, I’d just surmised that ineffablebob was headed to Portland to see it?

I’m in Bergen County NJ, and will only get about 72% eclipse coverage.

Since i’m leaving on a week long work trip on Sunday, it looks like i won’t be able to go out for beers with any qt3 Gamescom attendees. I will however gladly give pointers to visitors about what to do and what to avoid in Cologne.

The cathedral is of course well worth visiting and it really pays off to take a guided tour since it is so packed with layers upon layers of history. Right next to the cathedral is the Roman Germanic museum and i would highly encourage anybody with even the slightest interest in history to go, particularly since the museum will close for six (!) years for renovations in December. Right next to it is the Museum Ludwig with a great Modern Art collection. Other than that, i suggest completely avoiding the downtown area, which is mostly made up of soulless shopping streets and tourist traps. Cologne does not have a proper “old town” anymore, the area just south-east of the cathedral that calls itself old town is truly awful and no Cologne resident would ever venture there voluntarily.

I’ll jot down some suggestions later, but if anyone has questions about where to go and what to do, please don’t hesitate to ask.

I risked missing my train when in Cologne, as we were catching a connection from Amsterdam to Magdeburg via Cologne. I appreciate how close it is to the train station, as I had all of 20 minutes.

I may have looked a fool sprinting around the cathedral carrying the camera, but it was worth it ;)

Good evening all you lovely QT3ers. A few of us are doing a Meetup in midtown Manhattan this Tuesday (September 19th) after work. Around 6-6:30PM. We will be drinking some milk stouts of which Mr Chick is fond.

If you would like to join us then please message me, @mono @Ex-SWoo @Alistair could all possibly be there. I hope you can join us as well.

Am in Merrie Olde England this week…

Still angling to be there!

So @CraigM and I decided to meet up for dinner and a beer tonight while he’s passing through West Michigan. I picked a brewpub I’d heard good things about, and damned if it’s not a gaming area as well as a pub.

Which one of you is the good looking guy? :)

Oh, definitely him! (I’m on the right)

Hey, that’s me on the far left!

@ineffablebob wish I’d seen this thread sooner. I’m a month late for your PNW visit.

Whoops again! I am bad with names.

edit: oh yeah, forgot - how was your trip out here, iBob?

Thanks for the meetup. It confirms what I already knew, that you’re good people. Shame was we didn’t have time to bust out one of the games on the shelf, but alas Troy was still several hours away.

Thanks for meeting me on the way, and thanks for suggesting the spot.

jpinard appears to be going through another rough patch this time of year. any other qt3-ers in for a care package for him? i know we don’t want to do it on the in-person visit or else we’d infect with our JERMS. i think he’s in-and-out currently and not in a sustained stay at Spectrum Health so i don’t know if there’s a visitor’s log we can spam…

not calling him out directly via the @ since i don’t want to tip him off…

I’ll chip in, @rei.

I’m in. @rei

I was totally inept at captaining a submarine in Captain Sonar during tonight’s gaming session, but it’s OK since it was @CraigM doing the sinking.
New photo by Skip Franklin
(That’s him in the foreground, plotting my destruction!)

@rei, also in for what I can scrounge. (If there is a feasible way for someone across the states to be in!)

Had a lovely “Friendship Lunch” out at the NC Seafood Restaurant at the Farmer’s Market here in Raleigh with @sillhouette and about 10 other pals from the local area. I try to get one of these together about once a month (@clay’s attended in the past, too) and it was a real treat. I am so damned full of fried clams, though. . . ughhhhh

Oh, and silhouette, my mistake, I was thinking of the third-order enclave between India and Bangladesh, Dahala Khagrabari, which apparently isn’t an enclave anymore since the territory got ceded a couple of years back:

Nice! I recommend the catfish and crabs. That map looks like a radar weather map just before a tornado warning is issued.

There was another example I couldn’t remember, probably Nagorno-Karabakh (because who can remember the name of the region between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur, known as the Republic of Artsakh and “a de facto independent state with Armenian ethnic majority established on the basis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic”). The Caucasus is weird.