Uniform Foxtrot India Bravo...

Hello, my name is 905 and I'm a TotalFarker.

After browsing Fark the other day, I learned that Fark's founder, Drew Curtis, was going to be in town to sign books and grab a few beers with any interested Austin area Farkers afterward.

Having nothing pressing to do, I headed down to the locally owned Bookpeople, which was hosting the book signing. I felt a bit of a fanboy at first. After all, I've been on Fark for four years now. Fark introduced me to a ton of happy Internet funtime goodness over the years.

Then, Drew simply walks in without any fanfare or real buildup. Just, "hey, how's it going?"

First off, he's hilarious. Hardly what you'd expect in an author or in someone who runs an "Internet Phenomenon" such as Fark. He told stories, answered every question under the sun and then, when he was finished, told all of us that we can all go out for beer at this bar down the street.

The poor picture (I need to fix my eyes, damnit...) is at the book signing. Drew signed my book, "Robert/905: UFIB! - Drew Curtis." I was a little slow on the uptake because I had thought at first, "Isn't that supposed to be UFIA (in reference to an oft used hilarious phrase on Fark which stands for 'Unsolicited Finger In the Anus')?" before realizing it stood for "Unsolicited Finger In The Book."

Ahhh, Drew, I see what you did there...

We all met for drinks, which was a shock for me since I'm not the social butterfly type usually. Going to go meet for drinks with a bunch of perfect strangers isn't usually indexed in my Operationial Guidelines.

Still, it was a hoot and/or holler. I had a chance to meet a bunch of Farkers/Farkettes who run the social spectrum between IT computing geniuses to ex-high-school-football-hero-selling-insurance guy. I also had a beer with Drew himself and we chatted about random Photoshop contests, Wil Wheaton and how the new Transformers movie is doomed to suck.

A quite worthy outing indeed!