Your Dinner with Randi

James Randi, aka The Amazing One, will be holding the fourth annual Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas in January 2006. I’ll be there, and I promise I’ll blog extensively about it later.

But I have to tell you this now! Randi’s foundation is auctioning on eBay a dinner with him and several high-powered guests (including the incredibly super-wonderful Julia Sweeney).

THIS FIRST AUCTION ENDS AT 12:13 (Pacific time) ON MONDAY! As far as I can tell, there will be more, so you’ll get more chances. If I find out how many more I’ll add it here.

So bid now, bid early, bid often. It’s going to a great cause, and I can guarantee that’ll be a wonderful dinner.

P.S. Randi writes a commentary every Friday on skeptical issues. By his request (and when he asks me to do something, I do it!) I sent him a response I wrote to an article about Intelligent Design. He put it in his commentary this week. I’m busting here!

August 19th, 2005 11:02 PM by Phil Plait in Antiscience, Cool stuff | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Your Dinner with Randi”

1. Pixy Misa Says:
August 20th, 2005 at 1:10 am

Cool stuff indeed! I’ve never been to the Amazing Meeting (I live in Australia and hate flying, which makes it tricky) but a lot of my friends have and they had a blast!
2. some guy mike Says:
August 20th, 2005 at 9:02 am

I caught some of Julia’s “letting go of god” performance on NPR. It’s pretty powerful stuff for anyone on the fence about religion.
3. Varun Says:
August 20th, 2005 at 9:49 am

Dear sir,

we also have a weblog at http://www.exploreuniverse.com/astrolog where we update the latest astronomy news and other articles.

We contacted you through email but no reply…

We request you to please add our link of the blog to your blogroll so that we can spread the astronomy news more globally.

Thank you in advance..
4. MBains Says:
August 21st, 2005 at 2:13 pm

Gnarly! Varun’s site looks pretty cool at first glance. I’m goin’ in! LOL!

And thanks for the auction tip. The Raving Atheist has been bloggin’ pretty heavily on Julia Sweeney so I’ll post a link to This page their. L8
5. skepticality Says:
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:12 am

Damn, it’s going to be a financial trick for me to make it out there for TAM4 in the first place! Now, you give me something on eBay to bid on? And, if I do… I need TWO tickets!

Still will be a cool time for anyone that gets to go! I’ll make sure to mention it on our show.

Derek C.
host – skepticality ( http://www.skepticality.com )

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