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Linux Beer Wanderung
murger burger writes: "You have forgotten to report the linux beer wanderung, it has been taking place this week in Bouillon in Belgium. We just did a tour around the villages of Apach, Perl and Borg."
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I dunno... server seems to be holding it's own...
-- You can't idiot-proof anything, because they're always coming out with better idiots.
I'm still at the LBW right now, the event was very funny and avoided the hype going around Linux events.
Just a bunch of geeks having fun together, sharing knowledge and drinking a lot of beers.
Great party! I will definitively go to the next one.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a REALLY bad idea??
I mean.. crap. Hundreds of linux users setting up computers and then getting really drunk. I can just see this. People stumbling around drunk in the evening, absentmindedly tripping and falling into the spaghetti-cable mess between card tables.. and since everyone is drunk, no one can get them out.. so they remain in a tangled heap until the conference ends and they are discovered by maintenance crews. A quake game in which everyone is just kind of sliding around in slow motion, moving forward and then turning slowly (their crosshairs wobbling) to shoot at each other and missing. And then strafing into the lava by accident. A man stumbles in from drinking, collapses at his cardtable and wakes up the next morning with a throbbing headache in front of a screen covered in near-gibberish written sometime during the previous night that later turns out to be a threaded messaging cgi system written in perl. A weepy drunk guy, unable to deal with his repeatedly crashing X Server because he's not thinking clearly, goes and drinks to forget his troubles until he dies of alchohol poisoning. The SUSE team, sitting on the floor with the guy who wrote Kontour, halfconsiously swinging beer cans in the air and singing Filk in german. The guy who's been writing all those "BSD is dying" trolls standing and angrily yelling, his voice slurring, threatening physical violence against the one mac user who dared to show up for some reason. A bunch of british football hooligans who stagger around, challenge random people to FIFA 2001, lose, and then beat the victors up and smash their playstations. A LARGE HORDE OF PEOPLE GETTING DRUNK AND POSTING ON SLASHDOT EN MASSE.
Umm.. damn. I wish i was in germany.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Well, this only works with browsers that do not strictly obey the content-type header. The ones that do, like Konqueror, just display the HTML source (heh; vagina.rotten.com? now that's what I call an inspired name). So this isn't really a bug in Slashcode, this is only an exploit for stupid browsers that insist on rendering anything remotely resembling HTML.
I'm going to request that Larry has 'Bad Mondorf' as an error message in the next release of perl. Can you imagine?
% perl thing.pl
Error compiling thing.pl: bad mondorf
Go check the pics if you haven't a clue what I'm on about!
Baz
When I drink heavily, I can see Tux waving at me.
Does this happen to anyone else...
And Sometimes, when I get really drunk, uh, nevermind, I've said too much already.
mp3's are only for those with bad memories
beer -- das Bier
beer barrel -- das Bierfass
beer barrel -- das Bierfass [obs.]
beer brewed from wheat -- das Hefeweizen
beer brewed from wheat -- das Weissbier
beer mat -- der Bierdeckel
beer mat -- der Bieruntersetzer
beer mug -- der Bierkrug
beer mugs [pl.] -- die Bierkruege [pl.]
beer tent -- das Bierzelt
bottled beer -- das Flaschenbier
head (on beer) -- die Schaumkrone
life isn't all beer and skittles -- das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen
life isn't all beer and skittles -- das Leben ist kein endloses Vergnuegen
Life isn't all beer and skittles. -- Das Leben besteht nicht nur aus Vergnuegen.
a kept woman -- eine Maetresse
bosom (woman) -- der Busen (Frau)
buffalo woman -- die fette Frau
business woman -- Geschaeftsfrau
career woman -- Karrierefrau
cleaning woman -- die Aufwartefrau
cleaning woman [Brit.] -- die Zugehfrau
foolish woman -- die Toerin
gipsy woman -- die Zigeunerin
kept woman -- die Maetresse
married woman -- verheiratete Frau
the new woman -- die Frau von heute
to play the woman -- empfindlich sein
vanward woman -- die Vorreiterin
woman -- die Frau
woman -- Frau
toilet -- Abort
toilet -- Abtritt
toilet -- die Toilette
toilet -- Toilette
toilet -- WC
toilet article -- Toilettenartikel
toilet articles -- Toilettenartikeln
toilet bag -- der Kulturbeutel
toilet paper -- Klosettpapier
toilet papers -- Toilettenpapiere
toilet set -- Toilettengarnitur
toilet sets -- Toilettengarnituren
toilet soap -- Toilettenseife
toilet soaps -- Toilettenseifen
toilet table -- Toilettentisch
toilet tables -- Toilettentische
toilet tank -- der Spuelkasten (Toilette)
That should about do it.
I thought the actual name was the 'linuxbeerwanderung'.. one word... not the 'linux beer wanderung'. No?
"Imashhin a Beowufff clushter of theeezzzsh..."
- Freed
"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." -Turkish Proverb
No, wait? you're linux nerds, you'll never use it?
Sure they will.
C-X C-S
Belgium is home to several hundred styles of beer. Many use wild yeasts and have very unique tastes. Good descriptions can be found on the website of Michael Jackson (the British one).
Food Network recently had a Beer Unwrapped special which showcased Belgian beers and dishes cooked with them. It was pretty good...for something hosted by Gordon Elliott.
Chimay and Orval are two brands which can be found in most parts of the US. Corsendonk is one of my favorites, but it's harder to find.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
Up on the hills to the east, it's pretty cool. Otherwise, there's not much to do in Bouillon. It's a washed-up spa town for has-beens. But the castle is cool, and the youth hostel is nicer than average.