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Nest, jmccay writes: "The New Hampshire meetup was great. We didn't have a host, but somebody reserved a table. I think it was the meetup people. We talked geeky stuff (and complained about the new word based karma system). We had the hardware comparison (and one-up contest for a couple of people). All in all I enjoyed it and I am looking forward to next time. I hope more people show up next time (only 5 out of 24 showed up this time {I just checked}). I think voting begins Saturday for the next meetup place!"
MattyBoy.bigBalls() writes: "So the first Slashdot Meet Up is done in Toronto. Lets see ... I got pretty blasted ... talked about programming/video games/movies/science ... basically everything on slashdot ... someone asked me my user name and I had the pleasure of responding MattyBoy.bigBalls() hahahaha ... I met some girl who's into skateboarding/linux/punk rock and slashdot.. that's just odd And since im in Toronto on the subway ride home I had a conversion with some world youth day kid about god.. yikes ... thats scary when I'm wasted ... Rock OUT!"
InfinityWpi writes: "Just a quick reporting-in on the Slashdot Meetup Day in Fargo, North Dakota. We had 11 names on the Meetup list, four people RSVP... and three show up, one of whom hadn't RSVP'd. Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
Finally, mmarlett writes: "The Wichita, Kan. Slashdot meetup just wrapped up. It was a tight, eight-person group. There were some interesting facts, though:
- Most of us sustained some sort of heavy electrical shock as children, either by inserting metallic things into outlets or cutting hot wires. Monitor coils were also popular.
- No one brought a digital camera, but everyone said they'd bring one next time.
- None of us could remember anyone's name. Once we paid the tab and removed the nametags, it was a lot of "what was your name, again?"
Yeah, what is up with that? And what does "Excellent" mean?
Maybe I'm being really dense but I didn't see any announcement about the changes. It would be nice for a news posting to go up with the details when that happens. Generally users don't like seeing changes that they don't know about suddenly appear without any details.
Of course, if i'm being blind then feel free to mod me into oblivion (and send me down to "Not so bad" or whatever the next Karma category is).
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"We ran into problems due to the assigned meeting place being closed at the scheduled meetup time"
/. as well ;-)
Never knew bartenders read
The Winston-Salem, NC meeting went well. We had no host. We talked about lots of stuff,including the new karma system... turns out everybody hates it and wants the numbers back. There were seven of us... about the number who RSVP-ed, but we still lacked a host......
We talked till about 8:30, the mall we were in closes at 9, so we all had some good time to talk.
"We had the hardware comparison "
On non-geek meetings this would've painted a whole other picture.
Here
Alas, but the Sydney Slashdot meet was scheduled for the same time SLUG was scheduled. It was a tossup between SLUG, /. or sleep (curse my company's birthday party last night. ill never ever ever ever drink again until tomorrow night :).
In the end, sleep won out. Although, as you'll notice, im still awake :/
Hopefully i'll be able to make it to the next one!
Janie took my gun...
"Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
That's when the scriptkiddies moms wanted them to be home.
a while back I was looking for info on the Melbourne (that's in Australia for you Americans ;-) meetup, but I forgot about it completely.
I guess a lot of people weren't aware of the meetup, I think if there were perhaps a reminder of some kind for upcoming meets on the main page the turn out would have been a lot bigger.
I know there is a website with all these details, the problem is if you don't know about this website (as a lot of slashdot readers don't see every article) then you still don't know about the events.
20-30 is quite small for a city the size of Melbourne (about 4 million I think), and I definitely know there are heaps of slashdotters here.
--jquirke
Everyone hates cats.
IIRC, ~130 people RSVP'd for the Pitcher and Piano London /. meetup. It was the 2nd largest after Toronto when I checked. About 10 people showed up. =/ It was a great night though. Dave Green from NTK came along...and sold t-shirts. (I bashed you for selling t-shirts again! but at least I plugged NTK=)
I was hoping, but didn't realistically expect that ~130 people would turn up, but the people that did were great to talk to. We talked about lots of geeky things--as you would imagine. I met some people I had only read about before and really enjoyed myself. Plus there was, of course, lots of beer. I only regret having to leave around 11 to get my train home, when the party was moving to Pizza Express! (Dave's pathological addiction). All in all it was a great night, and I would like to do it again sometime.
* Most of us sustained some sort of heavy electrical shock as children, either by inserting metallic things into outlets or cutting hot wires. Monitor coils were also popular.
* No one brought a digital camera, but everyone said they'd bring one next time.
* None of us could remember anyone's name. Once we paid the tab and removed the nametags, it was a lot of "what was your name, again?"
Interesting... How many others recognised themselves from this? I've had an electrical shock from inserting a screw into an outlet (though I've never played with monitor coils). I wouldn't have remembered to take a camera (even if mine's weren't so awful), but would've liked to. And I can't remember anybody's name for the first 1/2 year I know them...
Others like that out there?
I doubt, therefore I may be.
That happened to us in Montreal Canada as well.. soeone booked the meeting at 7 at a nightclub that doesn't open till 8:30.
The waiter at the next place over gave us a table on the sidewalk next to the the nightclub's entrance so we could catch any slashdotters going in,
Seven people ended up arriving and we had a good time(at least I did).
I arrived at the Manchester, NH, about fifteen minutes late, since I didn't know where on route 28 the TGI Friday's was (and there are about a half million restaurants on route 28). It turned out to be right off the exit. I got there and met jmccay immediately. Next came perlmangler (sp?) and his brothers. Much beer and other potables were imbibed, and a good time was had by all, discussing karma, old hardware (VIC-20's and the ubitiquous 300 Hz Vicmodem), operating systems, jobs, wireless, etc, etc ... and playing mind games with the waitress... I had to leave a little early, but I'm making a point to put aside the entire evening for the next one.
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
I figured that since a few Pittsburgh people RSVPed someone would actually show up. I sat around in an empty bar for about a 1/2 hour waiting for someone to come, drinking a over blended whiskey sour, and eating stale pretzels. Who the hell picked that place anyways? The only upside to this was the place picked is a 5 minuted drive from my place.
And yes, it was just me in the bar. Not even another customer. Just me and the old bartender who could hear anything I said. Argh, stupid meet-up.
Ping the server before attemting to get higher level services. :) This can done useing the public switched telephony network or by sending a single client to the server to verify its service status.
Most Meatspace servers will also provide a prodiction of when services will be avalable in the future.
met some girl who's into skateboarding/linux/punk rock and slashdot..
/me raises eyebrow
thats scary when I'm wasted
hmmm.... now it all makes sense.
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Or with some gramatical mathematics an overrated flaimbait.
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Yeah, and watch OSDN get sued into oblivion when everyone with a negative karma is designated a Scientologist.
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The Hartford, Connecticut area Meetup was very small, but still a good time. No one had a clue who picked Chili's as the venue, but it was a good meal.
Hartford Area's Thoughts:
The general consensus was that posting is not as worthwhile/enjoyable to do anymore on Slashdot for a couple reasons:
- The need to post immediately within a few minutes of a story being posted to have any chance of moderation
- Ambiguous "Lameness" filters when composing messages akin to porno filters: filtering out more stuff than they ought to.
15 people signed up on meetup.
6 people (roughtly) RSVP'd for the first meetup.
3 people actually showed up.
Meetup should allow people who actually show up to have more voting power over the next venue...
Initially there were actually two meetups scheduled for Boston (one originally at Jillians for "Boston" proper), and the one at Gallery Cafe for "North Boston Suburbs"... which is rather ridiculous, so they were combined at the last minute.
Well out of the 80 listed on the page... we had a grand total of -five- people. It was still a good night, not entirely wasted. Much chit-chat about random crap ensued, which lasted a couple hours. Good food, nice view, not bad at all.
But next time don't sign up if you aren't serious about attending. Also, Gallery Cafe is nice, but I would suspect very hard to find and difficult to get to due to traffic at that hour. So please vote for a different venue next time.
everytime we tried to get into a heavy discussion on ipv6, or Win XP, these barely dressed women would walk by, dance around a pole, and try to sit on our laps. You didn't miss much.
Darnit. Either I didn't wait long enough or nobody bothered to show up for the Charleston meetup.
/.ers in the area and see how geeky these people were. oh well, maybe next month.
Showed up at the appointed place about 10 minutes before the appointed time. Waited around for a while, but didn't see anyone claiming any affiliation to the meetup. nobody with signs or anything. checked with the hostess, and she hadn't seen anybody there for the meetup. left to check out the bookstore, came back 15 minutes later and still nobody. by then, the wait for a table was about 40 minutes according to the hostess, so i decided to bag it and go do other things.
unfortunate, because i was looking forward to meeting other
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Fargo, North Dakota...Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
OH MY GOD! You Fargo-ites are P-A-R-T-Y ANIMALS! Almost 10, can you imagine. You better goto Church twice this week..!
The Raleigh meetup turned out pretty well. We had 19 people RSVP, and had about 20-21 people show up -- the extras were due to spouses/gf's/small people. It was a bit tight trying to get a table for 20 at Chilis at 7pm, right in the middle of their dinner rush, but they did a great job getting us in there.
:(
We had quite a group of people. Most people were computer geeks, but we had an agriculture geek, a lawyer (yes, we let him stay), a politician (who stayed just long enough to give us his vote-for-me speach), a teacher.. We got seated ~7:20 and the last of us left a bit after 9:30, so it was a good get together (my vocabulary is still stuck in the mid 90's BBS days), and the time really flew by.
I brought a digital camera, but I can't find the stupid usb interface cable, so there's no pictures available right now
ADV: If you're in the Raleigh area, join us for the next one.
Everyone, check out slashdot.meetup.com!!!
Heh. "...go insane trying to get Karma: 50".
That's funny. Find the right time to post to a story (when it's got <100 comments) and a relatively on-topic post maybe sprinkled with some relevant links that contribute to the story, and it's damned easy to reach the cap. Of course I'm sure you know this too.
Then again, it's just as easy to make an inflammatory comment that gets you moderated to oblivion, LOL
[that particular comment & my attitude toward CmdrTaco still remain]
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Gee, and you sound like such a winner. I can't imagine why you haven't found someone yet.
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It's spelled "Katz". And...um...yeah, lameness filter dodging in full effect, yo.
do not read this line twice.
he general feeling is that we've been pushed aside as Linux has become more of a mainstream USian commodity, and so a few of them (not myself) are heading back to Windows.
And Windows is not a mainstream USian commodity? And M$oft won't push you aside if you get in the way of profit?
Interesting that they feel that way.
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I was unable to make the meeting, anyone attend?
~ now you know
I was the only person to RSVP after Charlottesville, VA had 7 people sign up. The location choices were ridiculous -- I'd love to find out where those came from. I submitted an alternate one, but it never showed up as a choice.
It looks as if over-committment is a common theme around here.
-Waldo Jaquith
Cincinnati had 11 or 12 show up over the course of the night. At least half were members of CINPA (CINcinnati Networking Professional Association) members. We talked about our tech toys, work and school experiences. I talked about my websites, Uncoveror.com and Dontbuycds.org, and gave out copies of The Uncoveror newsletter. It is good we met at a resturaunt, and not a bar because one slashdotter named Matt was a high schooler who couldn't have got in otherwise. We had fun, and will do it again next month.
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Slashdotted? ;) sorry.. couldn't pass that one up :)
Just reading other people's posts I see a problem: a lot of test were held in bars. I'd venture to say half of the people who would have gone aren't over 21!
/. are college undergrads like myself, and I don't turn 21 until I'm a senior which means that I couldn't get into the Pittsburgh one even if I wanted to go.
I'd say a disproportionate number of people reading
Finally, it is summer, which means a lot of people are away from the big cities as classes don't start for another month.
Maybe in September there will be more attendance
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about 120 signed up... 30 RSVP'd, and around 30-40 actually showed up, quite impressive really... the restuarant had to move us around a bit cause people kept appearing ;) overall it was a really nice event; everyone was ready to talk about anything ;) definately doing this again... thanks all, 'twas a great idea...
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Wow, here in the US, we had people who might say such things -- they were call the Ku Klux Klan!
Unfortunately, here in Australia we have to call those people "the Prime Minister" and "the Minister for Immigration and Aboriginal Affairs". And the general public has voted for them *three bloody times* in succession.
This country is seriously fucked.
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I think people are a little confused about the difference between signing up for the meetup service and rsvping to the meeting. I wanted to see where this thing was in Kansas City and it signed me up. I wasn't able to make it so I didn't RSVP, but once I signed in the KC count went from 44 to 45. If you want to gauge how many people will be there, look for the RSVPs.
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The most karma you could ever have was 50. After that it could only go down.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Having just recent arived in Rochester, NY, (previously in 714, 909 and 213) I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the turnout at the starbucks conveniently located in sight of my desk. It's always nice to be able to talk to fellow tech heads in meatspace, especially those whose circles are outside of yours even online.
Not sure exactly how many people signed up, or how many actually showed, but it looked like a relatively decent time was had by all (even accounting for the lack of ethanol.) [Too bad the organizers didn't seem to show (or at least, remained safely anonymous...)]
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Well, I'm a pretty loudmouthed commentator, so my old account would be modded in both ways pretty often. I had 190 or something when the cap went into effect. After I was only able to lose it I basically stopped posting.
:P
If you asked me, they should have either set everyone's cap to their current level, or just hacked everyone's total down to 50. seeing your karma slowly decline like that was just depressing
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Venue: A little iffy. The meetup was originally scheduled to be held at a bowling alley near Union Square, but this got changed last minute to a bar above the alley. Not everyone got word in time, so we may have had some attrition there. And god knows if any of the under-21 /.ers got turned away by the elevator bouncer.
As for the bar itself? Nice enough, but didn't really have a /. vibe. It kinda felt like one of those corporate-chic places that inevitably get picked for the company holiday party. (This turned out to be remarkably accurate later in the evening when a large group from Merrill Lynch, I think, marched in, got drunk, and played Twister for a few hours at the far end of the room.)
And before I forget: $8 drinks at the bar(!) I tried to explain the whole "free as in beer" concept to the bartender, but I don't think I got very far.
The meetup: A mixed bag. The next one of these could definitely use a host. As it was, people just kinda wandered in, spent a couple minutes figuring out if the extremely sedate and fragmented group over by the bar was indeed /., grabbed a drink, and tried to form their own 2-3 person molecule of conversation. It would have been cool if everyone had gotten together at some point in the evening and done something, anything. Heck, form a big circle and play some "Duck, Duck, Penguin".
Other than that, my only observation is that people went home *way* too early -- especially for New Yorkers. By 10:30, it was just myself and another bloke closing out the place, playing pool and doing tequila shots. It's just unholy.
Biggest surprise: To the best of my knowledge, not a single laptop was whipped out over the course of the evening.
There's a limit to the number of posts you can make per day? That's pretty asinine.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Did any chicago/burbs people go? I would have gone but frankly you people scare me. :)
Rob
Either that, or nobody else showed; either way it must have been pretty lame. Or maybe everybody was later than me? (I waited a while).
James
Tempe AZ
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At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
About 12 people showed up at Jillian's at CityWalk. Lots of fun, however the general noise factor made any sort of serious conversation impossible.
Of the 12 people, three of us were female. In your face, NJ!
I have created an IRC channel at irc.openprojects.net called #la-meetup . Hopefully we'll figure out a time when everyone can meet in there. As far as future meetups go, we all definitely want to do this again. Whether we do it under the auspices of Meetup or not is not clear.
I'll get pix up today sometime. They'll be up on MsGeek.Org and I'll send a link address to the folks at Meetup.
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Was quite suprised that site didn't even have a venue in Edinburgh...
Anyway i'm sure turnouts (if anyone had) would have been a subset of SLUG/EDLUG...
Just moved there but had other obligations last night. Since I saw only about three or four RSVP's, reading the posts, did it actually happen?
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It was a small affair of about 8 or so people. We had fun until at least 8:30 pm when a couple of us left. We all agreed a better venue than Starbucks was needed. Preferably someplace that served real food & beer. Someone took a digital photo and will be soon available elsewhere.
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It went well, I thought. Had close to 20 people show up. Somebody *did* bring a digital camera, and soon got to discussing its features, price, battery life and other geeky things :) Nobody brought a laptop, notebook or anything like that :(
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Sit & Spin was rather noisy - it's a great funky place for three to five people, but with this many, it got obnoxious. I never even met half the people, because they were on the other side of the table and I couldn't even see several through the decor, let alone hear them.
Oh, and there were a total of *three* women there, which seems like a pretty high number, from what I read about the other meetings
We chatted about distros, bashed Micro$loth, wailed about karma, music, heck, Vikki even waxed eloquent on her political views (which are slightly to the right of Ghengis Khan
Somebody earlier had a great idea: Meetup should allow people who actually show up to have more voting power over the next venue. YES!!! There *was* parking, at $6, behind the building, but then you had to walk 2 blocks to get in the front (they weren't allowing people in from the back - that was for the bands that started at 9:00, throwing us all out). Two blocks may not sound like a problem, but I have multiple sclerosis - my total safe daily walking ability is about 4 blocks. After getting in the building, then standing and chatting for two hours, I was *seriously* beat
Maybe something up north a tad would be better? Near Northgate? There's good bus connectivity there, and enough space that free parking is the norm rather than the exception. Plus, maybe this time we could find a place more suited to gatherings of more than 4 people at a time?
Regardless, I still want to attend the next one. Vikki may opt out - she's not really a people person, preferring the feel of a keyboard under her fingers (or a soldering iron in her hands) to actually going someplace to chat.
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getting to meet new people that new what karma and mod points were =]
Our group (the san jose, ca) one was about 17 or 18, a few people larger than who had RSVPed for it, but we hope to get more people next time! A Yahoo! Groups list is being set up for the people in this area asap.
We want more people here next time! 88 people on the list, and I want at least *HALF* RSVPed next time! Of course, we will have to find a larger venue in that case...
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Well, this will probably go into oblivion since there are already 300+ comments posted, but I thought I'd add our locale's story.
I arrived with my friend Valorie at about 7:45 (we were late because we had to walk her dog!) We went into the venue (Cafe Cocomo) only to find out that it was a salsa dance club that had just opened at 7:30. When we walked back outside, we noticed some geeks in a car and asked them if they were with the Slashdot meetup. They said yes and pointed us to a sign on the gate that started with "Nerds can't dance..." and ended with directions to a local pizza joint.
People straggled into the pizza joint until about 8:15, when the pizza place finally found a table to accommodate 14 people. (Considering 110+ people signed up, this was a rather disappointing turnout. Our host didn't even arrive!) I took over the ordering of the pizzas, and we snarfed down 4 pizzas and two orders of garlic bread, as well as a lot of beer, wine, and soda.
There were definitely some interesting people there. Everyone I talked to had written software of some sort -- one guy had written shareware to search for porn, and two other guys carried around an iBook with some software that searched for open wireless LANs. One guy had legally changed his name to Lunatic! He had the most interesting fingernails -- he grew them way out and some of them were several inches long. It seemed to be a pretty Mac-centric crowd, but then again, this is San Francisco, so I wasn't surprised.
All in all, we had a great time and a lot of fun. If you're a Slashdot reader in or around San Francisco, please join the slashdot-sf Yahoo group so we can keep in touch.
Here are a couple of other wrapups I found from our group: Anonymous Coward and another Anonymous Coward. (I was surprised at the number of people without Slashdot usernames!)
And to those of you who signed up but didn't go (including our host), well, you missed out on a fun night!
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Yeah, the DC meet was very cool! I even ran into people I knew, but was unaware that they were coming to the event.
Slashdot seems to overlap 2600 quite a bit. There were a lot of 2600ers who already knew each other, but also a few of us outsiders who didn't know anyone.
There were a few people who I think were under 21 (CS undergrad students). I'm glad we didn't have the meetup in a bar, because if these people (I'm thinking of one in particular) had been excluded, I think things would have been less lively. I mean, just because they think perl is a decent language, doesn't mean we should get rid of them -- I'm sure as they get older they'll start to see the light and switch to Python. ;-)
I was the guy who had been pushing for a PGP/GPG signing party and failed, but at the meetup I found at that there is at least some interest. So I guess I'll try again next month.
Everyone was very friendly and I enjoyed it. Whoever's idea this was, gets a karma point.
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Too bad the guy with the "EFF" T-shirt didn't show up till later...
I would have been on time if more downtown parking ramps accepted motorcycles, the bastards. Got there eventually and it was a good time. 20+ people came (and went), good food, good conversation, excellent tip for the server (money variety for the human variety, that is)! When/where do the pictures get posted? There was some interesting, uh, let's say "visual contrasting" going on. :-)
Man.. it was slow here. Here at the Columbus meet, it was just me and 10 strippers. These girls were complete sluts. The problem was, they were all Redhat users, it was so lame. I wish there would have been some more nerdy Debian types there... maybe next time.
-gerbik
Its very strange to see a post about the Alexandria meet in response to the Seattle meet. I just escaped from Alexandria to Seattle. No matter how hard I try to get away from there it somehow worm's its way back into my life.
(ps. No I didn't go to the Seattle meet. Wanted to but was stuck at work until midnight last night)
The place the Melbourne gathering finished up at was more than appropriate. It didn't just have a row of Internet terminals available for $A2 an hour if you bought a drink, but the tipping jar on the counter next to the Internet prices promised to improve your karma.
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Here's the pix page...
http://www.msgeek.org/html/la-meetup/
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Well, that guy obviously was less then 50, so he could not have gotten above. My old acount still has like more then 100. Or it did, anyway.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Sacramento's was good. I have a feeling there'd've been more than the 12 who showed up if the venue hadn't changed at 12:30 that afternoon. :) (Someone forgot to see if the winning venue _existed!_ D'oh!)
;^)
Anyway, I was there, 'representin' the big LUG in the area, LUGOD. The head of the smaller SacLUG (a coworker of mine at Worldcom, in fact) was there too.
Interestingly, most of the folks who showed up were people I've never met - so they aren't regular LUG'ers. They will be, though. Bwahaha.
One dude who came had just recently moved to the west coast (if you could call Sacramento that!) from Flordia.
As with one of the posted meet-ups above, noone brought their digital camera. I had my Zaurus, though, of course, and showed off the recently-ported Doom running on it, and handed out some leftover handouts Sharp gave me for LUGOD.
I should go into marketing...
-bill!