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Hello from DefCon
I'm feeling quite the fish out of water. It's weird to be at a conference and not know everyone--a sign, I suspect, that I've attended too few Perl conferences and spent too little time with the rest of the world's population. I'd like to meet people to go to dinner with, but I have no idea how to do it aside from walking up to random people and saying "hi, you don't know me, but I'd like to have dinner with you" which sounds a lot like a come on
They have a wireless network, which hasn't crashed yet. Their web site is cool--someone's running a web bbs on which people can hook up, discuss events, and so on. That's a nifty idea. And there are "radio stations". There's one on an FM band, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to access the radio station on "34". I'll sort it out tomorrow, I'm sure, when my friends who have been here before start to arrive.
Oh well, time to strike out and attempt to Make A New Friend for dinner. Wish me luck! (My boss has already noted that bail is not reimbursable)
--Nat
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Probably A Good Guess No Matter What (Score:2, Funny)
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You are what you think.
they'd send you to DEFCON (Score:3, Interesting)
but not to yapc? Sad, especially when DEFCON is mostly lame anymore. Look around for Wozz and the r00t crowd. Very good, very bright guys. :) Tell Wozz[Matt] I said hi if you bump into him.....
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Re:they'd send you to DEFCON (Score:3, Interesting)
--Nat
(DefCon's now mostly lame in the same way that Burning Man is now mostly lame--if you were around in the old days then it's a pale shadow of its former self, but if you're new to it then it's still as impressive as all hell)
Re:they'd send you to DEFCON (Score:2)
He's one of the amply-sized bald guys..:D is probably close to what he looks like these days [salon.com] and still a lot like he used to look [suck-my-big.org] years ago. He's a fun guy and he usually goes every year. :)
I'd have bought ya dinner (Score:1)
trip for me. I'd have bought you dinner.
Next time I'll wear a Republic of
Perl shirt instead of the Amiga Deathbed Vigil
or NetBSD World Tour.
I've brought friends in previous years. Always
the same, they leave their laptop at home the
first year and bring it the next. I spent most
of the the trip in front of mine with the headphones
on. Working on typesafety.pm. The new version will
suck much less, I promise. Of course, anything
I write succumbs to Xeno's suck paradox -