30 Comments on “Out Among Real Live People”

1. The Internets are not pleased.

2. Wait, there is such a thing as “real live people”?

3. Well, maybe the internets has guests too, and is having fun hanging out with real live internets. That’d show Scalzi.

4. Hey! I’m a real live person!

   Okay, not really. I hope it’s a beautiful sunny day there.

5. But what about the real live people who read this plethora of miscellany? We visit you every day. Don’t we count for anything?

6. I want to be a real girl :-(

   Turing test, anyone?

7. So wait, I don’t get it. Is it like a chatroom or something? some sort of physical device for chatting?

8. I thought cats took precedence.

9. Er, I don’t think it counts when people stop and ask for directions, John.

10. Wait, you let people into the place where you eat and sleep?

11. Well, hell, boy, let’s get ’em showcased on TwitPic!

12. What’s this nonsense? Are we not real live people? Are we not guests at Casa Scalzi every single day? Frankly I think we’re entitled to seniority here.

13. I eagerly await photos of bacon-guest.

14. You mean they’re not all standing around with their iPhones surfing the web?

15. I hope you’ve at least got some little smokies there for the people. Ooh, and maybe some kind of dip.

16. We are real live people. Some of us are probably going to go cut on ourselves after hearing you totally diss our reality like that, Mr. Scalzi.

17. Not according to some leading lights of a newer paradigm- those who decry such smugness when it results in neglecting true human relationships alone in front of a screen, while favoring people in actual physical proximity to oneself.

    Just ask a certain famous author who posted several comments on this theme not too long ago.

18. Being out among real live people… I do that every day.
    Being able to shroud myself in the snarky anonymity of the Internets… Ah well, the things we do for fun. 8D

19. Real live guests!

    Are you sure? There’s been an outbreak of vampire Stepford androidism lately.

    Better double-check, just to be safe.

20. “real live people” I’m not sure what you are referring to there. I guess I’ll Google it.

21. As opposed to fake dead people ? Hmm…

22. So, are you going to ‘out’ your guests here on whatever? (Neil Gaiman does – just sayin…)

    We wants to know who you’re seeing – is it this Yanni person you Tweeted about? Is it the musician Yanni? (ooohhh! – kewl!)

23. “Real live humans take precedence.”

    Since when? Besides, I bet if I go over to Twitter, we’ll find you’ve been busy…

    Dr. Phil

24. #21 beat be to it.

    Howsomever – there’s also real undead guests. Mmn,
    brrraaaaaiiiinnnsss.

25. @21 – Calder, Richard, “Dead Girls”

26. If this is a LAN party, Scalzi, I’m going to be very, very disappointed.

27. My Muse’s activist younger sister desires to fwap you with a rolled-up website, and to point out that this is just the sort of unthinking snub the post-embodied experience every day. For shame! Next time she holds one of her famous spam fritter cookouts over the roaring flames of Usenet, you need not hold your breath for invitations.

28. Yes, John Scalzi is entertaining real live guests. I’m one of them, enthralled and enlightened. For the tens of thousands of you who weren’t invited to the grand event, I’ll give you a quick play-by-play breakdown (it should be noted that John strayed from the five-act program): John just finished performing his incredibly ambidextrous Star Wars VS. Star Trek action figure show. Vader won again, beamed everyone to North Korea, the Kim Jung Il bobblehead doll a convincing touch. I almost didn’t notice the marionette fishing line. He’s now re-enacting the fighting scene between the Consu and CDF troops. Actors: three live king crabs as the Consu; twenty-seven Sea Monkeys as the CDF troops. We’re all crowded in the bathroom, peering over the edge of his deep claw-foot bathtub. Holy shit!? The Sea Monkeys are going absolutely ape shit with their light sabers (fashioned from what appears to be used red and green plastic cocktail toothpicks; I’d recognize my teeth impressions anywhere). And . . . the Sea Monkeys have won, “the [light saber] technique thinned out the Consu herd.” Wow! John Scalzi has the best syfy-themed parties in the universe. Neet Knight, North Korea Gazette

29. You know, after spending yesterday among crowds of real live people, I’ve come to the conclusion that real live people are overrated. Just saying.

30. How many guests did you get? I was over helping out with a party we did at my church for our “young adult” community. We were expecting 75. We got 100. :D