10:07:13 Abigail Sutherland: There's something funny on the front page of ML. Don't worry, it's not serious, but can you ping me when you wake up?
10:07:44 Abigail Sutherland: Just want you to take a look at it.
12:02:11 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Awake now! What is it?
(Abi posts entry)
12:04:07 Abigail Sutherland: you might have to refresh a couple of times to see it
12:04:51 Abigail Sutherland: got anything yet?
12:05:03 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: hold on...
12:07:24 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: jeeeeeeeeeeeeez
12:07:32 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: you GUYS
12:07:38 Abigail Sutherland: Gotcha
12:08:03 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: what a very well-executed conspiracy
12:08:25 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Thank you!
12:08:31 Abigail Sutherland: Do you like how four of the people on the video were at lunch with you right in the heart of the action and never said a word?
12:08:47 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: I was just thinking that through.
12:08:59 Abigail Sutherland: Don't thank me, really; Pendrift did the bulk of it, and Serge herded people with his usual skill
12:09:05 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: I also notice that Avram and Chris did there bit in the Tor conference room.
12:09:10 Abigail Sutherland: Yep
12:09:14 Patrick Nielsen Hayden: their

Yup.

Happy anniversary, Teresa and Patrick!

I believe her mouth is still hanging open in astonishment.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick with sprinkles. Thank you all.

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa!

Thank you!

(Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada)

(Watches video again.)

Happy anniversary!

Happy Anniversary, P&T.

Love, c.

Happy Anniversary, Unhyphenated Ones! (Wait, that makes you sound like Lovecraftian demons. Nuts.) Happy Anniversary, Patrick and Teresa!

Thanks Pendrift for all that work. Thanks abi for organizing this and nagging me until I did my bit! Thanks everyone for being a community that makes it seem right and proper to do this (especially TNH and PNH themselves)!

Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada.

Happy Anniversary Patrick & Theresa!

And congratulations to the happy dyad!

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa! Thank you for creating this place.

Happy anniversary!

Happy Annivesary, P&T.

And your conspirators rock, in amazing ways!

(And to the perpetr conspir creators: well done!)

I love it when a surprise works.

I love this place, and all the people in it.

Two, actually, but good eye. Wouldn't be realistic without them. I love them, too, though.

P&T, happy anniversary!

Teh Universe did a Very Cool Thing when he/she/it/they put you two together, and then gave y'all to the rest of us.

Happy Aniv!!

I am beyond flattered to have been asked to participate. The bmdyds were David's idea.

Yeah, but you probably don't want to think about what they were doing while they were waiting in there...

With props.

I am amused to find that people want to know how I move (and don't expect that Teresa should recall my physicality from our single meeting, at a crowded party Friday evening of ConJose).

abi's first comment was that she now had some idea of how I move.

It was an honor. The squee at being told of the plan, the finding of camera; being able to plot, in person, with Serge and Kathryn (and without Kathryn, by strange circumstance, I'd never have met Serge), the hauling of props, all of that pales in waking to see the reactions.

Thank you, one and all.

Only, I don't want to get a reputation for promiscuous shoe-thwappetting, so I feel I ought to reserve it for my long-term partners. Otherwise I would SO hit that...

... um, with a shoe. I mean. Of course. *innocent*

(Marna, Serge: do we need to get the two of you a room?)

:)

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa! And thanks for this awesome place.

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa, and many more.

Yeah.

The pastiche
you were playing with in comments
we have made it real

We couldn't resist
It was so cool
and so delightful.

And Congratulations to the NHs!

Thanks to the Brookline Puppet Showplace for being the only source of dinosaur puppets I could find.

Happy anniversary to Patrick and Teresa!

Happy Anniversary Patrick & Teresa.

And WOW to all who created this.

(grumble grumble stupid corporate firewall blocking youtube grumble grumble)

And especially thank you to Patrick and Teresa, for being PatrickAndTeresa.

Happy anniversary, you guys, and many more!

First there was a really geeky video.

Then there was a pastiche in the comment threads.

Then there was a conspiracy.

I'm visualizing Downfall Hitler, ranting against the proliferation of boomdeyada videos.

I look forward to hearing more "Making Of" stories.

Congratulations to every culprit, and the heartiest felicitations to Patrick and Teresa. Happy Anniversary!

The conspirators:

This is just to say

That you have won
the internet
that is attached to
the flourosphere

and which
you were certainly
using
for this gift

Enjoy it
It is so illuminating
so vast
and so 404ed

And of course:

I love that video,
It's such pure genius,
Boomdeyada Boomdeyada Boomdeyada...

My most recent pair of socks has bright yellow robots all over them.

I just want to admire this fine sentence.

Happy anniversary, both of you!

Happy Anniversary, P&T!

Happy anniversary!

And happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa.

Boodeyada!

This remind same that, when you and Marna drove me back to where I had left my vehicle, the exchanges between the two of you reminded me of George and Gracie, except that you were both George.

Having such conspirators to express our gratitude and pleasure . . . Wow.

And a big slainte! to the conspirators.

And to the co-conspirators - WAY COOL!!!

I love this corner of the 'net.

Most of the credit should go to Pendrift. If she had not written her ML version of the song in the Boomdeyada thread, we would never have thought of an ML film. Not only that, but Pendrift wound up editing the whole thing together.

And what SeanH said @18 - this is the ONLY blog I read.

Happy Anniversary - Ad multos annos.

Happy anniversary!

Thank you, Fluorosphere, for making this possible. Making Light really is neat.

You were terribly patient with us, and didn't even make fun of how meter-challenged we both were--since we were both pretty much stoned on Nyquil that week.

3:O)>

Further congratulations to the conspirators for a good job, well done.

Heartfelt "Well dones" and "Happy Anniversaries" to be distributed appropriately.

I don't think you'll be denied an audience.

Happy anniversary!

All you perpetrators/conspirators: OMG. Utterly amazing. "and the serial comma," and "AKICIML productions 2010"? *splutter*giggle*

Seconding everything everyone else has said, including the "they miscast the ML movie!"

Terry Karney @ #69, and Bruce Baugh @ 80:

*gigglefits* I knew there'd be at least one pastiche of that one...

Well, I'm not really that fat.

OK, I am, but I'm not usually that fat.

Well...I hope it's not going to be my new normal.

And more calmly: congratulations to Teresa and Patrick; may you have many more years together.

And congratulations to the conspirators. That was a coup well-executed. And the way it was executed just goes to prove that we really do live in a global village. I like my neighbors in the village.

At least you didn't get the blame for this one.

3:O)>

No chocolate involved, either.

3:O(>

Bmdydbmdydbmdyd

3:O)>

Oh, *that* conspiracy. :)

Those sorts of things are so much fun to do, aren't they?

You might very well think that, this moose couldn't possibly comment.

3:OX>

(I still have the campaign map in the spare room.)

Happy Anniversary, Patrick and Teresa!

Happy anniversary, Teresa and Patrick!

There was a campaign map?!!?

(we should probably take this to email, mine glinda, the usual "at" sign, over on gmail)

I did manage to startle Fragano by hailing him by name at a con when we'd never physically met before, but that was because he uses a photograph for his LJ icon.

Do you come unraveled when someone yanks your strings?

You'd gone home for the day. I checked two or three times to make sure.

Happy Anniversary!

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa!

Plus thanks to all the conspirators who created this very enjoyable video. (Even more enjoyable since I've caught more in-jokes and references due to the comment thread.)

What were some of your wrong expectations about what some people looked like? And other people's expectations too, perhaps?

There should be a thread where people guess what people look like and see if they get it wrong.

Were your props some obscure pun?

And seriously, y'all, give me a holler if something so conspiratorial comes up again. Several of you know how to get hold of me.

A brilliant idea well completed! Yaay.

Boomdeyada!

The left-hand one is a surge protector. I don't think I have to elaborate.

The other is a set of jumper cables. That's the connection I haven't made yet.

I'm glad we're all still around and friends.

My own theory is that she had seen pictures of me taken at Bay Area rec.arts.sf.fandom gatherings (of which there had been one or two by then) and posted to the Web, and then forgotten about it, at least on the conscious level.

As it were.

This deep into the comments, perhaps it's safe to admit that I don't get the title of the video.

Mr. Google says it has something to do with Thomas Carlyle.

It doesn't seem to be on YouTube, alas.

Happy Anniversary T and P!

Boomdeyada!

I love the rocketry, annotated.

From their joyous timbre I gather they must be the post-rehabilitation vowels, ready to released back into the wild? Trollish vowels never had so fine a sound.

Thank you everyone: Patrick and Teresa for ML, and everyone who contributed to the video for such a marvelous *squee!*

So when Pendrift was looking for something innocuous to title the video on YouTube, I sent her to the lyrics and suggested she pick something.

My "making of" story: I was filming multiple takes of it, and none of them were quite right. Then Fiona came in and asked if she could watch. But she was breathing somewhat loudly next to the camera, so the next take was a washout. I said she could only stay if she breathed more quietly.

It's amazing how much more one smiles when one is looking at a six year old with both hands clamped over her mouth and here eyes hugely wide, simultaneously entranced and desperate not to ruin things.

That is an evil idea.

You are going to do it, aren't you?

Making Of Fun Facts

Early Bird Award for first video submitted: Fragano Ledgister
Last video filmed: Flourosphere, the results of which are now sitting on the dinner table
Average number of takes, based on submissions: three
Boomdemusic folder size: approximately 500 MB
Days of plotting, from start to finish: 43. Video uploaded to YouTube on March 18 (Day 38).

That many?

1) happy anniversary, and many more to come.
2) thanks for running a wonderful community.
3) nice video. you're all sickeningly young.

This from someone named "kid".

This from someone named "kid". Right.

anyhow, here I thought i was conversing with a jury of my peers, and it turns out you're all just precociously wise, instead.

anyhow, here I thought i was conversing with a jury of my peers, and it turns out you're all just precociously wise, instead.

my first was a reply to your second, then my second replied to your first.

years of practice.

not every pseud on the internet accurately reveals its user's true essence

You're talking to someone whose previous (and still, elsewhere, current) nick was evilrooster.

-----
* But not 165, which was too deep and wise for one so young as I to feel equal to replying to.

Yes, there is a direct line of descent.

The latter is, as far as I know, the only SF movie in which Rosemary Clooney appeared.

Alex Eisenstein was discussing Rosemary's performance in this film the last time I saw him. If you and h ever meet, you will have a lot to talk about.

2. Wow, all you guys are cool! And brilliant, and funny, and serious.

3. I've learned a huge amount from the community, and I'm glad you've been patient with me. I'm sorry that seeing you guys is what it took for me to realize how real you are. I knew that was a risk, that I wouldn't realize that, and I thought I'd engaged in the necessary mental gymnastics to compensate for that, but I was wrong.

I'm sorry that I haven't brought my A-game commenting skills in the years I have posted comments to making light. I have had a few different noms on here, abandoning one and restarting with another after either revealing too much information that could be traced to me in real life, or more commonly, just saying something dumb.

I've learned a huge amount from all of you over the years - gained far more than I've given. At the very least I learned:
1. to always, always, check my sources, especially if it is something "everybody knows"
2. never, never, assume that someone else experiences the world from my point of view. I never realized how much I assumed that everyone is a white middle class protestant male just like me, until I got here.

Teresa and Patrick, thank you for having me.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Robotoe?

but "evilrooster" might fit the "right essence, wrong age" paradigm if you're still an evil chick.

I have to admit, I did try to video myself but I didn't have enough hands nor assistants..so I let the monkey stand in for me. It's better looking anyway. If I'd been thinking better, I'd have used my beanie Orangutan baby as my semi-doppleganger.

Kudos to Pendrift, Serge and the other co-conspirators!

Close. It was eggs.

We were discussing the Elizabethan saying about being as full of [thing] as an egg is of meat. Then the conversation did what conversations do, and it became as full of [thing] as an evil rooster is of eggs.

And I was just looking for a web id right then. So there you go.

When I decide to take a more permanent non-lurker handle I will of course disown this comment in its entirety.

...Yes...? And...??

BTW, the overtext on your moon globe appears to be broken.

(I love this place.)

A diversion into the strange workings of my mind: 'Pendrift' somehow brings to mind the image of a dark-haired, handsome young Englishman of the late 18th or early 19th centuries—possibly this is due to lexical attraction from 'Poldark' and 'Pendennis'. I did know that our Pendrift doesn't fit the bill in any of these respects before I watched the video, but some sort of synaesthesia still forces that association, just for a moment. (In Russian, any first-person singular past-tense statement betrays the gender, or at least the purported gender, of its writer by the -ла ending of the verb: this must affect Russian-language online communities rather significantly—you either reveal your gender in the first paragraph you write, or you deliberately hide it, or you double-bluff it).

Seriously, I love being able to eavesdrop on the conversation, made up as it is of equal parts erudition and silliness.

I don't mind at all that you are all so much younger than I am. Everybody is, after all.

a few are. fewer admit it.

a few are. fewer admit it.

Happy anniversary, Patrick and Teresa — may you have many many more in happiness and good health, surrounded by people you love who love you.

And a big squishy hug to everybody else. *dabs at eyes*

Well, I get much the same image from the name (despite knowing she's female!), and I'd never heard of the other two names you mention.

One note for the MakingOfMaking documentary: the glowing rectangle held by my necklace is my telephonic device playing the original video.

:-)

I'm all sniffly now.

Keep threading lights into fuzzy warm intangible blankets.

Happy Anniversary, Patrick and Teresa.

A little belated, but Happy Anniversary to our Dear Hosts... {{{{hugs!}}}}

*snicker*

Yes, you be careful or we'll sling you to Singapore.

Wouldn't it be easier to drive him onto the rocks of Manhattan?

Dave, belatedly

(I asked a passing duck about this, and it said "Kwak", which I assume was agreement.)

...which has us for-sake everything, riced assured.

"Wheat a millet," she said, with a rye look on her face. "Are you sowing more corny puns?"

a) I hope (or do I ?) it's my memory playing one of its usual tricks on me, but didn't we have *exactly* that very same exchange once already (which would explain the fact you all look the way I "imagined" you, I had actually seen you) ?

b) I knew as I was typing that pun would be made... but wow did you all sure give it legs... one of the reasons I love this place so much.

Hey, has the link to the video in question somehow disappeared from the original posting here?

(digging further...)

It's still in the page source, "http://www.youtube.com/v/pYe0CbyDM7I," but perhaps my browsers are not as Adobe-Flash-friendly as they once were.

Another way to find it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYe0CbyDM7I.

So I am still able to re-watch "Popes and Potentates." Hello, Fluorospherian friends, distant now in time as well as space...