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Lulu Tech Circus
Stacy Doster writes "Lulu Tech Circus, the latest endeavor of Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, is coming to Raleigh, NC, Sept 27-29th. Then on to Boston, DC, Chicago, Toronto and Atlanta. Lulu Tech Circus is going to have everything geek - Don Becker, LAN tournaments, a swap meet, Robot building and more. Check out the cool experiences. Stop by or nominate yourself or someone you know in the Raleigh area for The Lulus. Three Lulus will be given to the three winning uber-geeks. The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."
"The winning prize is a trip for two to Kennedy Space Center."
Second Prize is a trip for four.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
Hmmm. Wouldn't uber-geeks want to go to LBJ in Houston instead of Kennedy Space Center since that is where all the real geeks monitor the US Space program?
Oooh! Or what about JPL? They always seem to have really cool stuff going on there. Of course the geek would annoy the hell out of his significant other by fawning over their rack-mounted clusters and robots... so I guess going to Kennedy is best.
What is music when you despise all sound?
Then again, that gives me time to build up my small ubergeek to super "Larry Wall" uberness.
OK, you may now mod me to oblivion, I am full of love. =)
-Cyc
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I made the mistake once of driving 3 hours across Florida to go to Kennedy Space Center. What a disappointment! Anything the public gets access to is run by a lame amusement park company and the whole thing is set up more for 8-year-old boys obsessed with rockets than geeks. The only particularly cool aspect of the place was the actual Saturn V rocket hanging, disassembled, in an enormous hangar-like building. Other than that, though, it pretty much sucked.
No civilized person on Earth considers a trip to Alabama a "prize".
"Cuz they may be training them there, but no way are they lettting people from Huntsville fly this stuff."
"Larry busted out of the capsule and is trying to hit a satelite with a beer bottle. Oh, and we need to know how to unclog the toilets because the boys ate all the freeze-dried chili and they're tore up something fierce."
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I'm interviewing for the tech circus "IT wonder human" role in 30 minutes... wish me luck.
BlackNova Traders
Maybe the XBox comes with Linux installed?
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
I made the mistake once of driving 3 hours across Florida to go to Kennedy Space Center. What a disappointment! Anything the public gets access to is run by a lame amusement park company and the whole thing is set up more for 8-year-old boys obsessed with rockets than geeks. The only particularly cool aspect of the place was the actual Saturn V rocket hanging, disassembled, in an enormous hangar-like building. Other than that, though, it pretty much sucked.
... that can be really interesting, if you like aviation. More meat, less fluff in my experience (since, in a real sense, they are generally trying to sell you on an airplane, or at least an airplane's concept, and assume you're knowledgable enough about aviation to be worth selling to).
When I went to Houston it wasn't bad, though I would have liked a little more technical detail on what was going on in the control room at the time (they were running a simulation of an aborted shuttle takeoff, where the shuttle makes a big u-turn in the sky and lands) would have been nice. There was the whole visitor-centor nonsense that seems to plauge more and more landmarks these days, but overall the experience was interesting, if only for about an hour or so.
Now, touring an aircraft production facility (for general aviation aircraft)
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Although I'm planning on going, mostly because Andrew Hunt of Ruby fame is going to be there, I got kind of burnt out by all the human-spam in the Raleigh area.
What do I mean by human spam? I mean, first I hear some LuLu rep talking about it at the local Triangle Mac Users Group meeting.. I laughed because 90% of the folks in that meeting don't know what "Darwin" is, let alone what most of the cool talks are about (except I did see they are offering Final Cut Pro seminars!).
Then the worst. A few days later THEY SPAMMED OUR SLASHDOT MEETUP! Of all the things to not spam, they sent some droid (Photo #2) over to our nice meetup at Flying Saucer, to sell us all on the idea of going to this thing.
After about 25 minutes, his salesmanship is over, and the business cards handed out, he dissappears.
What the hell were they thinking? Welp.. I guess if it gets folks to go.
Of course, our local slashdot trolling committe made fun of the silly name. But that's typical.
Mildly interesting tangent, we had a sales guy from this group show up at our second Slashdot Meetup in Raleigh, NC. He showed up and pretended to be interested in Slashdot and geek stuff, but really was trying to recruit people to show up or present or whatever. I was never quite sure what he wanted, but he really came across as a sales guy.
He made sure everyone used the right buzzwords.. it's not a conference, it's not a trade show.. I don't remember what he called it, but I wasn't impressed. He had to explain what the heck a Lulu was (all I could remember was the little girl from my mom's old comic books). One of the guys I was with had a beef with RedHat, as well, as he had lost a tad of money, and the guy who was starting Lulu Tech Circus was still making tons off it.
Anyways, the guy was giving out cards and stuff, but he didn't really impress anyone, I don't think. We were far more impressed with the fact that the bar we happened upon had a wireless network and two people had randomly brought laptops..
...and it seemed to go well. I will find out for sure before the end of the week.
BlackNova Traders
Since when did Slashdot do anything butwait for someone to send it stories? This one has all the earmarks of a press release. No harm in that.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
I see some small banner ads for a couple of sponsors, nothing more.
"Abstracts"?
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"