I kind of feel retarded for posting on here, but I'm starting to go out of my mind doing everything by myself, and looking for buddies on CL/okcupid seems weird to me. I'll try to keep this simple.
I just moved here to work at SLAC from SLC, Utah a month ago, and most of the people I know are physicists twice my age. In true nerd form, the idea of meeting a ton of new people by myself gives me some anxiety, a bit more than the thought of me trying to sell myself online to a bunch of strangers.
Anyways, I need new friends. I've got a ton to offer, but the most relevant thing, the reason this is really an offer, is probably the fact that I have a car and I'm not afraid to use it (i.e. driving to the city for whatever). Also, I'm 100% down for food adventures, beer (first round is on me), live music, movies.
Their tagline is "People doing strange things with electricity" - in my experience you end up with a fascinating crowd of people hovering somewhere on the borderline of hardware geeks, software geeks, artists, and pranksters.
They've got a meeting next Wednesdsay in SF - I've made some _great_ friends via Dorkbot in SF as well as Sydney (where I live) and Seattle.
(If you go, find Karen and tell her Big says "Hi!", and there might be an Australian girl named Pia visiting, tell her I say Hi too!)