Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner
From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania...
from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had
well over 100s of parties and over 2,300 registered attendees
scattered around the world. Many of them got boxes of t-shirts and
ThinkGeek gift certificates (and some of them even got them on time). We've seen cakes with legos and logos, we seen nerf gun fights, and even a lawn sporking.
I've put a tiny sampling of my favorite pictures online. The grand prize winner is of
the $1k store credit at ThinkGeek is Lindsi from Minneapolis. Their party featured a lolcats cake, a taco bar and a dude in a helmet smashing computers with a sledge hammer in a raining parking lot. They earned it. We had a great time in both Palo Alto and Ann Arbor- I hope you guys had fun wherever you gathered. See you again in 2017!
That is a punishable offense, not something to be rewarded...
Bow-ties are cool.
she is a babe.
I love the sporks on the field. Wish I would have thought of it!
Glad that I could be part of the winning team!
Thanks for letting me take a whack at the E250.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
Or is there an attractive female in those pics?!?
My favorite photo is:
http://www.math.bme.hu/~gergoe/cake.jpg
Wondering what you would pick from ThinkGeek, do certain things come to mind right away, or you had to do several browse sessions?
/. winner would pick. Awright, you got me: I just want to live vicariously through you!
In short, what's on your THinkGeek wishlist (or shopping cart, if you hadn't made a wish list). Just curious what a
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
I think I could salvage some of that hardware. It still looks useable and I bet I could install Linux on it.
I'm imagining a beowulf cluster already...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I say take back the prize. No penance until they make an NEDM pie.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
And chicks! They got chicks!
"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it." - Churchill
If you hate hearing about /. so much goto http://meta.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome and set it so you don't have to see those articles. Trolling about how this is a "circle-jerk" is not a solution.
...because he never showed up at the party he hosted and apparently ran off with all the free swag. I'll pay $5 to anyone who helps me track down this lousy thief.
Should be Buenos Aires.
Jesus Christ.
I hope, they still publish text-stories then.
Not some youtube-clone-mee2-bs.
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
In Ann Arbor you had:
Chris Smither concert
Nomo Concert
Michigan football game
And wasn't the slashdot party held during a teeny-bopper timeslot of like 8-10?
Has there been a discussion here about the increased use of filtering software by corporate America to reduce the average worker's ability to surf the web? Yeah yeah, this is off topic, but I can't see the pics here at work and it's annoying as hell. I'm just waiting for the day that they add Slashdot and their ilk to the list of filtered sites.
Crap, I almost went to that party in Minnetonka too. Looks like a blast! I'll be there in 10 years...
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
There were parties in Paris and Lyon, with reasonably good turnout. The party in Lyon profited from having some good organizers who knew each other. They had a Duke Nukem release party :-)
Lyon party photos from Zopeuse and more from the pterjan, and the Logiciel Libre crowd.
In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Ya hey dere, Minnesota. I see youse gots somma dat dere facepainting? So much for edgy, eh?
Thanks first for the opportunity. Montréal's Slash party was nice. Maybe we were about 25 slash enthusiasts at the climax. Here's my summary right after the party (with alcohol still running in my veins): "Interesting to see a sample of Slashdot readers. Most were very friendly, some were rather shy (as we expect nerds to be?), some were "older" but some were also very young! And the discussions about 1.5D, 2.5D, 3.5D, surfing in Hawifi, this North Korean drum-driven CD and three-way code merge were definitely worthy of a Slash-like party, and that barmaid reading the Slash book. Yeah. We should have more of this. Life still has surprises. Thanks."
:-)
One of the pictures on Picasa web album is a barmaid which accepted to play our game and be photographed while faking reading the cryptic "Running web logs with Slash" book (I happen to run a small slash-based website, that's why a bought a copy of the book). As good slash users, pictures were copied on the web even as the event occurred by people at the party
Animoog.org
no photoshopped pics! that was the rule as I understood!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vibrant/1800753876/in/set-72157602788247909/
The t shirts arrived but late.
Anyone out there want one?
Free OBO.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
... that the story to cap the festivities would contain the awkward phrase "... we had well over 100s of parties..."
:-)
The proud Slashdot editorial tradition continues. Here's to over tens of more great years!
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
The "winning party" is a fake - there's girls in some of the pictures.
Can't be a real slashdot party.
I was happy to see the name of the city where I live at the begging of the article, only to discover that it was mispelled!!
Are the images available somewhere that doesn't require javashit?
Photos, (with girls no less!) http://medsocial.com/safe/viewprofile.aspx?show=101367
Shame I couldn't go as the arsenal is a great spot with many memories. Back in the eighties/early nineties it was NOT a cool place to go. Back then the walls were **covered** in weapons of all kinds like swords, hand grenades, maces, halberds, etc. (hence the name...) Are they still there or are the pictures in another area?
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What the hell? Did she sleep with Commander Taco? Guess my BJ didn't work on him....
Highlight reel here and full-length here. (Oh, and being a female, I can vouch for not only our existence, but our presence at the party!! :-D)
You really have to give them full marks for creativity. They even made cardboard cutouts of girls!
eh. Don'tchaknow. Come'n over to der farm und veesconsin, and we can tip der cows!
Do those come with a free shovel?
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
I'm pretty sure my invitation got lost in the e-mail.
Can I bum a sig?
Nicole is hot
In soviet Russia, anniversaries celebrate you!
there was a guy who helped CmdrTaco to display very early slashdot on "Linux show" in mid-1990s. CmdrTaco wasn't able to afford the fee to become an exhibitor (which was probably not that high, as entire Linux show was hosted on tables) but guy who was on our party convinced Novell to let CmdrTaco with slashdot exhibit on their stand.
I too was there and confirm that there were women at the party. My whole hand went numb when I smacked one of the Dells. Be careful when using Sledge Hammers in the cold rain, as it hampers ones proficiency in later Guitar Hero sessions.
2017???
/. Party schedule software, collect the videos and photos and make it an annual thing.
Mid-30s cynical geeks congregating to office space an old computer while celebrating Slashdot culture could happen in hundreds of locations every year. Just get bunch of startup shwag partners, run the
I would love to organize it.
required reading for this crowd.
Agreed
For "legos" to be correct, each piece of the kit would need to be a "lego". THEY AREN'T!
Lego is the name of the company that makes the Lego bricks, connectors, and other assorted pieces. Come on people, it's not that hard to get right...
But forgot what the day was. Didn't get it onto my calendar manager, and there was nothing on the main page about the parties on the day(s) of/before them.
Could have made it, too, if I'd known "this is the day". B-(
Oh, well. Maybe in another five years or so... Like after I've retired and moved to Nevada...
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I think there's a new geek test here. If you watched the video/looked at the pics, and your first thought was, "Damn, I could have used that equipment", you're a geek. I know I certainly felt an urge to shout "Noooo!" for some of it.
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
Hopscotch Cafe
... uh ... clothes.
:- ) and/or leave a tip if possible.
Ave A btw 8 / 9 st
I'll get there around 8:30 and I'll be wearing
As usual respect the venue, buy something (no booze
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
same post again what the hell -
... uh ... clothes.
:- ) and/or leave a tip if possible.
Hopscotch Cafe - Friday Night Nov 2
Ave A btw 8 / 9 st
I'll get there around 8:30 and I'll be wearing
As usual respect the venue, buy something (no booze
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.