The YC crew has graciously let us use their space for the event. I can't think of a better setting for a meet & greet with Randall then to be surrounded by Trevor's robots.

I have a feeling that I ran into Randall on the train in Tokyo last week. There was a guy that was wearing a shirt that said "XKCD" and I said "I like your shirt."

He just said thanks, and something about his expression made me wonder if it was him. It didn't dawn on me until after he stepped off.

I could be wrong (obviously wrong if he wasn't in Japan last week :-) ) but it sure did look like him.

I don't see information on the SF event. What time is it at, and where is it?

We're also doing a [reddit-powered interview with Randall](http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ihy8/ask_randall_munroe_xkcd...) - he'll answer the top 10 questions at the SF event (if you can't make it, we'll be live [on justin.tv](http://justin.tv/reddit).

Geek Reading starts at 7 p.m. at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Please RSVP to events@eff.org. Admission is $30, and attendees must be 21+.

Somebody's used to reddit's markdown syntax. :)

Why doesn't HN use markdown?

HN does use Markdown...it's just a very incomplete implementation. Since HN is written in Arc, there would have been no off-the-shelf parser, and I assume pg opted to use the simplest subset that would work. There also seems to be an aversion to fancy-pants stuff on HN, so it may be intentional. Why get clever when clarity isn't improved by doing so? (That said, I kinda miss having full Markdown link support.)

Thanks for the explanation; but I don't really think that hyperlink anchors, block quotations and lists (ordered and unordered) qualify as "fancy-pants". :)

That's literally across the street from where I work... guess I'll be there.

No Boston? Darn.

No Seattle? :(

There's a lot of us folks at Microsoft/Google/Amazon that gr0k xkcd and would love to be there :)

Agreed. If he came to Seattle, I'd show up/donate/spend money/whatnot.

Working on that one. It's a short commute for Randall :) so when Berkman had some snags, we didn't fret.

No Brisbane, Australia. Darn.

That's on the Green Line, isn't it?

Just past Chestnut Hill, actually.

I catch the green line out just past Chestnut Hill every day and there certainly isn't a Brisbane, Australia out there, or I'd be at Gelateria Cremona every day.

(I'm from Brisbane originally)

I actually took my now-wife to the Gelateria Cremona on one of our first dates. Had completely forgotten it existed ... I sense a return sometime soon.

Dublin, Ireland???

Cambridge/Somerville also works.

Second for Boston. Big tech city, lots of fans.

No Atlanta? Darn.

No Santiago de Chile? Darn...or,,, obviously.

Bid is in. Looking forward to this.

Thank you! I don't know that in Lao, but the future students of the 'xkcd school for kids who can't do romance, sarcasm, math, and language good' no doubt appreciate it as much as I do.

edit: or maybe they're all Garfield fans. We can get them on the right path.

It's approximately "koap chai". To make it extra enthusiastic, throw a couple of "lai"s on the end.

(mr_luc once learned enough Lao to do basic public speaking in that language, for reasons that the mists of five years ago have now rendered hazy).

Come to Amsterdam :)