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Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia
palfreman writes "The Linux Beer Hike is less than a month away. This year it is in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, following last years success in County Clare, Ireland, and the 2001 event in Bouillon, Belgium. This year the dates are Saturday, August 9 to Sunday, August 17. There is also registration site and a members mailinglist. I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Phew... when I first read that headline I thought someone had raised the price of beer in Slovania. Not that I'm ever going to go to Slovania, but with globalization and stuff I worry about these things.
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Man, that's a heck of a long way to drive drunk. What is one to do to avoid sobriety?
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*Microsoft ploy to get all Linux users intoxicated and in one place*
I guess we know where that Robot Ballon is heading then...
Linux and beer, add a women and this is my ultimate fantasy. I would just settle for the beer, but all I have is linux :-(
He doesn't have to worry. After all, in Soviet Russia the jobs find you.
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To bad i couldn't find a joke to insert but ...
There's currently a true tick-plague going on in almost the whole of eastern europe. People you'd better get that vacination now since it takes about three weeks to kick in.
Pluspoint is the ticks concerned are not spreading the dreaded Lyme's Disease but merely Tickborne Encephalitis.
English Health Information here
Dutch Health Information here
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>>I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!
To mainland Europe? Do you have an amphibious assault vehicle? And if so, do you take it out often? And if so, are you on a quest for global domination? I just happen to be the greatest criminal mind of our time...
(with apologies to Strong Bad)
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Oh, I used to work in tech support too.
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Its an informal gathering of geeks who hang out in some venue like a church hall for a week and hack and give talks. We also go on walks around interesting areas in the locality; mountains hills whatever. We also go siteseeing a lot caves and castles being a perennial favourite. In truth less walking goes on than I think should happen but hell its a holiday people do what they want.
Then in the evening we invade the local pubs and get blasted (well I do). When the beer hike hits town its a shock and awe thing; we invariably pick a small village with pubs or restaurants that are normally used by 4/5 locals; and all of a sudden they are swamped by 40/50 geeks, its anarchy.
At the moment we only do European country in which some sucke^Hvolunteer has arranged a hall with Net connectivity and power and scouted out accommodation etc. There talk of a US version since so many Americans come but thats not happened so far.
Its totally informal and fun - those of who go are always keen for the next one.
-he who laughs last, is a bit slow.
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I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip! :-)
I always get a smile on my face when Europeans talk about driving far on a vacation. Or when they come here to the states and think everything is so close together. The look on their faces can be pretty funny when you tell them its a fifteen hour drive to Florida or a drive out west will take them a couple days. 2400 miles was a little more than half the distance we drove on a trip to Montana last year. It was nice though when I stayed in England a few years back that you could get to just about anywhere in 4 hours or so from London. That and being able to take a train there was even cooler. I'd trade that for all the cheese curd signs we saw in Wisconsin.
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