Andy Roberts

I finally met Andy F2F a week ago in London along with some other fine folks. We talked about Drupal, then went for a walk along the s. bank of the Thames and had a lovely day.

Afterwards, I was reminded about why I liked Andy online and offline—he followed up after a meeting filled with ideas with some concrete action. Wonderful!

I met Nancy White finally, right here in London and I’ll probably make it to the emint talk on Monday 17th July as well.

I put him into a playscript I wrote last year. He didn’t have a very happy ending so I hope that part doesn’t come true.

Andy is a fantastic cook and he loves to cook outdoors, but not just BBQs. He is also really good at campsite cooking producing great meals over a single burner.

He was the first person to identify ‘Trout Mask Replica’ amongst my Last.fm album cover art.

I know where she got that hat!

Unlike Jack , who wants to meet lots of people, I was initially stumped by the question posed at 43 people. I’m not particularly sociable and I’m not one for awestruck fandom so who do I want to meet? I tried to think of somebody who is still alive and has made some kind of major contribution to human thought and came up with Richard Dawkins. I don’t know what I’d want to ask or say to him if I did meet him though, so perhaps I would just express my appreciation for the work he has done in explaining the power of evolution, writing accessible but inspiring books, campaigning against attempts to introduce teaching the bogus science of creationism, and for coining the word “meme”.

Because he wants to meet Richard Dawkins, hopefully for constructive reasons.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to teach him how to raise one eyebrow and he’s perfectly capable of redesigning his own blog but I’d be happy to cook a meal for him sometime.