Last Chance to Sign Up for 10-Year Anniversary Party

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Last Chance to Sign Up for 10-Year Anniversary Party

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 9, 2007 @05:23AM from the party-like-it's-2007 dept.

We have 700 T-Shirts coming in today and now we need to know where to ship them. So while you can continue to sign up for parties, today is the last day we'll be looking at the sign-ups to determine where to send shirts. You can sign up or host your own party and we'll try to mail lots of you schwag and ThinkGeek gift certificates. A note to people signed on for my party in Ann Arbor- we will be at Leopold Bros Oct 20. Pudge has a large party coming together near Seattle, Zonk has 30+ in Madison, and of course there's a big party in Palo Alto Oct 25 that Hemos & I will both be at as well. A reminder to all party planners- make SURE your email address is accurate so we can spam you guys and get snail mail addresses. Remember to take pictures/videos/etc at your local gatherings and submit them to us (we'll have an email address later). Whoever impresses us the most with their creativity in submission will win $1k ThinkGeek prize.

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Fakes? by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2007-10-09 05:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

Taco, how are you dealing with people faking a party to get the free swag?

Have to admit it came to my mind "hey free swag!", and so I'm sure others will take the bait and do exactly that even if I won't.

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1. Re:Fakes? by stoolpigeon · 2007-10-09 05:31 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Both 'parties' remotely close to where I live have 2 or 3 people. I wouldn't really call that a party - and I'm not going to go sit around in awkward silence with a couple other socially inept geeks just for a t-shirt. I get free shirts from vendors.
  
  It's a cool idea - but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of traction.
  
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2. Re:Fakes? by ackthpt · 2007-10-09 05:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  He'll post your name and email address in a special follow-up article on Geek-Imitators.
  
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3. Re:Fakes? by ackthpt · 2007-10-09 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Both 'parties' remotely close to where I live have 2 or 3 people. [...] I'm not going to go sit around in awkward silence with a couple other socially inept geeks just for a t-shirt.
  
  There went your nerd cred.
  
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4. Re:Fakes? by eln · 2007-10-09 08:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Your premise is faulty. A Slashdot party that no one attends would be the most authentic Slashdot party of all. After all, how many Slashdot readers would really come out of their basements just to hang out with each other? That's what IRC is for!
Slashdot PT Cruiser by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-09 05:30 · Score: 2, Interesting

Ok, I know this is off topic, but I figure this is the best place to ask. A few weeks ago I was shopping for food in the East Bay (SF Bay Area) and when I walked out of the store there was a teal PT Cruiser with Slashdot logos on it. I needed to get home but I was curious if that was someone that worked for /. or just a really hard core fan.
1. Re:Slashdot PT Cruiser by Lumpy · 2007-10-09 05:36 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Slashdot is part of a pool of pay for wierd advertising companies. you can whore yourself out for a couple of hundred bucks if you keep their sticker ad's that cover your car for 6 months. It's a paltry amount of money to look foolish as you drive around but several people around here do it. They want specific car types. Pt cruiser, Scion XB, etc..
  
  you get peanuts for making your life and car a billboard.
  I looked into it a year ago as a guy here at work did it, and I saw ebay, slashdot even digg in the lost of companies you can choose from. maybe I can find the phone number if you really want.
  
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2. Re:Slashdot PT Cruiser by ackthpt · 2007-10-09 05:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Ok, I know this is off topic, but I figure this is the best place to ask. A few weeks ago I was shopping for food in the East Bay (SF Bay Area) and when I walked out of the store there was a teal PT Cruiser with Slashdot logos on it. I needed to get home but I was curious if that was someone that worked for /. or just a really hard core fan.
  
  That was probably the latest ploy in geek recruiting. If you stepped too close the doors would have swung open, you'd have been dragged inside, driven to a secret location, dragged out and into an office building, placed at a work station, given an $80,000/yr job working with software or engineering and all the women around you for the rest of your life would give you dismissive looks.
  
  Good thing you ran away!
  
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3. Re:Slashdot PT Cruiser by AuMatar · 2007-10-09 06:30 · Score: 2
  
  Damn. Most of that sounds like my real life, but why do they have to give me a pay cut?
  
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4. Re:Slashdot PT Cruiser by mikeboone · 2007-10-09 07:36 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Wasn't that car a prize from a contest several years ago?
  
  I found a picture.
Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Locations by Nymz · 2007-10-09 05:35 · Score: 4, Informative
- CmdrTaco (1) - Ann Arbor, Mi, US
- Hemos (2) - Palo Alto, CA, US
- vroom (43) - Ann Arbor, Mi, US
- ScuttleMonkey (55) - Ann Arbor, Mi, US
- Roblimo (357) - St Petersurg, FL, US
- pudge (3605) - Seattle, WA, US
- kdawson (3715) - 42-71, MA, US
- Zonk (12082) - Middleton, WI, US
- jamie (78724) - Ann Arbor, Mi, US
- Nymz (905908) - Palo Alto, CA, US
Re:Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Location by Anonymous+Monkey · 2007-10-09 05:39 · Score: 2, Funny

but ware is Beatles-Beatles going to be?

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Re:Thanks Slashdot, community (real people) rocks! by ackthpt · 2007-10-09 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

This is the coolest thing about Slashdot. The people who are going to show up at these parties are usually hardcore techies. What a great feature, thanks Slashdot!

Don't forget to check all your base at the door.

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What about girls? by tsbiscaro · 2007-10-09 06:05 · Score: 2, Insightful

Slashdot Party? Party means girls! Ok, forget about it...
Re:So no party at turkey eh ? by ackthpt · 2007-10-09 06:09 · Score: 4, Funny

horrible.. horrible. very telling.

Yeah, but look at it this way, you're still around -- what of the poor Soviet Russians? There's no Party to join THEM!

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Going about it wrong by LiquidCoooled · 2007-10-09 06:15 · Score: 2, Interesting

You have to entice the crowd with teasers.

Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party with free punch and pie!

(After I noticed one party in England is offering free food)

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Re:Party Behavior by east+coast · 2007-10-09 08:24 · Score: 2, Funny

Actually, given the nature of most of the slashdotters I know; give the booze to the girls. It makes a big difference if they're the ones with a distorted view of reality.

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Which Paris? by ChefInnocent · 2007-10-09 08:57 · Score: 2, Informative

Paris, Arkansas
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Illinois
New Paris, Indiana
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Maine
Paris, Michigan
Paris, Missouri
Paris, New York
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Wisconsin
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Yukon
- More - by Xenographic · 2007-10-09 09:50 · Score: 2, Insightful

NewYorkCountryLawyer (912032) - New York City, NY, US

It's the one I wish I could go to :]
What's to celebrate? by trouser · 2007-10-09 11:49 · Score: 2, Insightful

10 years of my life I will never get back.

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