I didn’t really have an answer. My guess was “hi.”

I thought PZ was unfailingly polite, though the other folks who went along for the group lunchfuck seemed to want to talk about how to promote atheism. I wasn’t actually there for any reason other than that I was a bit tired of life and had decided to go to skepticon.

Oh! Wait! no! It was the AmazIng conference! I forget. At that time in my life I was a professional conference speaker (seriously, just google me) and I decided that I’d actually attend a conference as myself for myself. Now, you may be thinking that the “as myself” is a bit off, but I always thought of my conference appearances as performances. I used to even refer to it as “corporate cosplay” when I wore a suit and tie. At TAM that year I was deliberately not wearing a costume and it felt weird and vulnerable.