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LinuxTag Opens (Hackers are Homeless)
LinuxTag started today. Many of the usual exhibitors can be seen, and the floor is quite busy. Especially noteworth is the crowded KDE booth where they are excited about the 2.2 Betas.
kazekiri sent us a report from Slashdot/Japan which you'll need to translate to read, but apparently one of the hotels was closed for hygiene reasons, and many of the developers are without a place to sleep. So now they are
staying in a gymnasium! Fortunately for me, my hotel is open and I got a good nights sleep (after 36 hours without any) and am preparing for my keynote Saturday afternoon, and a Q&A session Sunday afternoon. If you're in Stuttgart, check it out, just don't try any of that Deutsch on me, I barely passed that class.
Just like in Drum corps. That has to be a lot more fun than staying in a hotel. They probably don't think so now, but they will remember it later. People don't appretiate those moments in the present as much as they should.
Smelly Hippies with Open Sores. Stay out of our Hotels!
> Brewster's Millions 2000:"30 million in a month,
> eh?" *picks up phone* "BUY NORTEL! BUY LINUX!
> TECH TECH TECH!"
If memory serves, one of the provisions in the deal was that Brewster had to get value for his money. I'm not sure buying tech stocks counts.
BTW, did you know that "Brewster's Millions" was originally a novel by George Barr McCutcheon (published 1902), and that according to IMDB it's been made into a movie at least six times? You can read the novel online thanks to UVa's Electronic Text Center.
Or are Linux Tag travel expenses part of the "cash burn"? It's like watching Brewster's Millions in real life.
"Cash Burn" (TM)(R)(C 2001 VA Linux)(All rights reserved)(No warranty)
If they hadn't burned their house down, then no one would have to sleep in the gym!
Say hi to Booger and Takashi for me!
ZOMG I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS ON MACINTOSH VERSUS WINDOWS, VI VERSUS EMACS, AND HOW YOU'RE NOT A DORK
Geez, Taco, couldn't you offer to share your room with those who lost theirs? Or is sharing something you only do with MP3s and source code?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
He can speak it, he just can't spell it!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
that's about the only way you'll get geeks in a gym anyway.
'one pull-up pyle! can you not do 1 fucking pull-up?!?'
BilldaCat
Luxury! We used to dream of having a sewer. No, we had it hard in those days. For a bed, all dear old dad could provide was the neighbour's piranha tank. But we were happy for it, we didn't know any better. Not like kids these days, with their slashdots and their hotels.
Now, *that* clears things up.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Why does this sound familiar? A bunch of nerds
forced to sleep in a gymnasium. It's O.K. Don't
wory about them. They will find a house and beat
those aweful Alpha Beta's! Let's just hope there's
not a sequel(or SQL...).
"as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee" - Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. (One man's humorous is another mans flamebait)
That wasn't the Alpha-Betas, that was Hemos!
kickin' science like no one else can,
my dick is twice as long as my attention span.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
Depends on the language - this is one of those strange words...
:-)
In English, "Gymnasium" means a hall where you do gymnastics or exercise.
In German, "Gymnasium" means an upper-tier secondary school (attended from age 11 to age 19 IIRC).
Just one of those strange English/German glitches. Like, don't the words "mist" or "missed" around Germans, since "Mist" means "poo" in German - not "sh*t" or anything like that, just almost exactly the same resonance as "poo". Foreign golfers missing a putt and saying "Poo!" is quite amusing for the Germans (who says they lack a sense of humour?
Grab.
Sleeping in a gymnasium? Luxury! In my day we'd have slep on a pile of broken glass in the sewer, and been happy to have the glass!
BlackNova Traders
You know what I'm talking about: 70 sweaty adolescents and grown men, packed into a room full of gigantic running monitors, who have been there for the last 12 hours, just sitting in their chairs...
Ugh, the stench was unbearable. No wonder everyone opted to go to a resturant for eating.
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Friends don't let friends use multiple inheritance.
"I can sympathize with my brothers on the street, man... one time my hotel suite was double-booked, and I ended up without even a hot tub!"
Staying in a gymnasium, eh?
"Good night, Gilbert."
"Good night, Louis."
"Good night, Takashi."
"Good night, Lamar."
"Good night, Wormser."
"Good night, Poindexter."
"Good night, Booger."
"BUUUUUURRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!"
Could you please record this and put it on /. maybe make a comic relief area for it.
you know, w/ all the errors taco makes in english, i think he should start posting in german, then we all may be able to understand him.
MICK THE FIRST POST MASTAH!
Real funny trivalize homelessness just like the census.
I'm an asshole, so what?