Linux 10th Anniversary Celebration Report
Marc MERLIN wrote to us with
his follow-up report on the Linux 10 celebration in Silicon Valley. Marc comments "The event was a great success, several hundred people showed up, and the money left over is going to the EFF." Marc, in addition to being a great guy, also has lots of reports from other shows.
Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me...
Damn. I'd thought I'd seen it all. You can't even run a story about a fricking BBQ on Slashdot without someone trying to one up the writers. I suppose I should chime in to run this mother into the ground.
The park people said they "really had their shit together". No where in that comment does it say anything about how organzied the operation was. It said they "had their shit together". You inferred that this meant that it was a particularly organized event, but it didn't. It meant they "really had their shit together" just like it said.
Having one's shit together, to me, means that someone has meat, someone has buns, there's a place for garbage, there's a method to get food, there's coolers filled with beverages, and someone seems to know what's happening. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is an efficient, organized troop of BBQ commandoes dispersing from a truck in swat-like fashion to commence operation: cook-out.
It was a freakin' BBQ, how organized would you expect it to be?
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.