Thank you moderators and contributors.
Left to right
Charles Rotter, Alec Rawls, Dr. Ryan Maue, Tom Fuller, Dave Stealey, myself, Steven Mosher, Dr. Leif Svalgaard, and Willis Eschenbach.
To those who could not attend, my sincere thanks for holding down the fort.
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Matt says:
April 2, 2012 at 12:44 am
I may or may not be the only one in the group who has actually worked for an oil company. For a couple of years I was the Chief Financial Officer for the largest fuel importing and distribution company in the Solomon Islands.
“Biggest in the Solomon Islands” loosely translates as “smallest in the world”. We used to joke about how we certainly weren’t “Big Oil”, and that we weren’t really big enough to call ourselves “Small Oil”. Finally, someone came up with the right term.
My thanks to all the great folks making WUWT work, despite the lack of Big Oil money.
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A great team needing a break (except for the mods) 🙁
Make sure you kept the receipt before Warmists allege “Deniers being fed by oil funds” 😉 Not that I’d give a dam.
A group of hardier individuals would be difficult to envisage. You put the A-Team in the shade. I trust the meal was suitably resplendent.
Where are your light sabres guys? You are the last hope for freedom in the Galaxy against the Evil Empire and it’s Imperial Team Stormtroopers.
Beware the bounty hunter Boba Gleick leaking the restaurant tab to DeGalacticSmogBlog. 🙂
Willis Eschenbach says:
April 2, 2012 at 2:47 am
I bet you were well oiled with wine when it finished!
Willis Eschenbach says:
April 2, 2012 at 2:47 am
…loosely translates as “smallest in the world”
but money was big, even got own island in the ‘coral seas’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Willis_Island.JPG
not far from the Solomons (the pendulum of Pacific)
Great to have ‘faces’ to all (well, some at least) of the WUWT-team-members!
Plenty of thanks to You all for the superb efforts You serving us and please DO keep it up!
Brgds from the Swedish Bestcoast
Thomas Jakobsson
Great to have ‘faces’ to the members of the WUWT-team (well, at least some of ’em).
Plenty big thanks for all the superb efforts You all put in. Please keep it up!
Brgds from the Swedish Bestcoast
Thomas Jakobsson
A league of extraordinary gentlemen, thanks for all your hard work.
Dr. Svalgaard is member of another team
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SPD2009/SPD2009Misc/SPD2009Misc_012.JPG
officially declaring vukcevic ‘a cyclomaniac of superior ignorance’ an attribute to be proud of .
Good lookin’ bunch of guys I would say. ( Inside and out )
Red wine too 🙂
you look a fine bunch congratlations keep up the good work we will destroy the dark side
Top snap. Great to see y’all having a fine time and a break from work to boot.
Clive @ur momisugly 10.06 One day .. one day, you will be rewarded in a big way. ☺
I reckon the hearty laughs had by the mods et al were reward enough?
Hmmm…. Not sure I’d buy a used car from any of that lot…
…and it looks like you’re having WAY too much fun….!
We are all deeply indebted to you.
It cannot be said enough: thank you, thank you, thank you.
R&R, good. Love yer work.
It is good to see no one is drinking white wine.
I see no full wine glasses, looks like everyone had a good time.
Thank you for all you do!
Ian Cooper says:
April 2, 2012 at 1:31 am
I learned back in the early days of the ARPAnet that I was no good at matching Email (we had just invented it), to faces. My second ever business trip was to Cambridge, MA for a meeting about FTP (people had implemented the “new” FTP that is essentially what’s in use still). I was nearly terrified about meeting my colleague from Harvard. Fortunately I hadn’t heard his family had links to the Boston Brahmins and his grandfather was a major contributor to the Boston Aquarium.
However, a geek is a geek the world over, even if he has access to club in Harvard Square.
As for Leif, you must’ve missed the discussions here between Leif and me about the glory days when computers had lights and personalities.
http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/uta-shutdown.txt
As always, my best regards to the whole team, I’ve learned a lot from visiting this site over the past number of years (even tho sometimes I don’t show it) It’s been fun probing the minds of an invaluable team with an enormous combined wealth of knowledge, backgrounds and experience.
P.S. The comments here from readers are awesome too, I’ve noticed from following other sites that skeptical commentators appear to be more clued in-to and have a better grasp of the science, physics and engineering than the somewhat clueless CAGW crowd.
what a handsome group of men. makes the ‘team’ look like the bar scence from Star Wars. Hoping you al had a fine time.
Now that’s what I would call the perfect guest list for dinner. Anthony, for giggles you should have invited William M Connelley. Ha, imagine the chaos and confusion that would have ensued as he edited the menu/price list to his liking.
It’s Santa Leif!
Dr. Svalgaard looks much as I imagined, but Willis Eschenbach looks nothing like I would have imagined as the author of such firebrand tomes. There doesn’t appear to any flames coming from his eyes at all.
My heartfelt thanks to you all.
Ah, now that’s the REAL climate ‘Team’. Great work all of you.