Slashdot Mirror
Party with Slashdot Tonight!
So if you're in the Bay Area tonight, you definitely need to show up
tonight at the Park Side Hall (across the street from the conference
hall) at 7:30 (until 10) for the Slashdot/Freshmeat/Andover shindig.
Free beer, and loud music (from San "Single White Female" Mehat),
good times shall be had or your money back! You're all invited.
It ought to be a rip roarin' good time. At least, after Guinness #3
;)
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/travel.htm
Breace
you know you're a geek when . . .
you come home from a rave at 8:30 in the morning and the first thing you do is check your email.
and reply to anything pertinent.
my keyboard is covered in glitter.
Maybe we should throw our own Iowa Linux party...
[ insert your own witty .sig here ]
Anyway, vodka!
To start with, 50cl or 50g is only half the story. (In Russia, you don't drink less than 100g :)
Then, I admit that flavoured vodka is much easier to drink-up, but that's why vodka must be chilled-up! Even crap vodka tastes good when it's chilled ;-) (like hristianskoya at 5000 rouble a bottle (1$ back in 95) ... and yellowish :)
Then having vodka and beer is always a bad idea. In russia, they say something like if you drink vodka without beer, you throw your money in the wind. Don't listen! vodka+beer=guaranted hangover :-)
But anything else you said, I have to agree... actually Absolut is good vodka.
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
It's not right in any sense, I don't believe. Non-alcoholic beer must have less than .5% alcohol content to be considered so. Guiness has ~4.3% and one of my favorite beers is Dragon Stout which has almost 7% alcohol content. check out this link for a list.
Oh, let's have a geek party in Iowa! Gathering in Ames, anyone? We could play with my collection of old computers running obscure *nix OS's.
I partied with you geeks last LW..I'll stay home & feed my fish, thanks.
while absolut is good the absolute greatest i have ever had every is siburskaya straight from siberia this vodka is amazingly delicious and super strong
Boddingtons!
Freedom's just another word for nothing left Zulus
The party was great. Assorted beer [1], chips and salsa, veggies and ranch, and appropriately greasy pizza.
:D
I spoke with the VP of Publishing of andover.net [2] for about ten minutes about what I do [3], why I read slashdot and freshmeat daily, and why they're so much better than any other news sites. This interogation netted me a super-nifty slashdot hat, which I will cherish until the day I die, or until someone bids more than $100 for it on eBay. Actually, it was a wonderful and unexpected gift. Thank you!
<biker rant>
I also met a super cool biker chick, and you guys all suck for driving cars. She was the only other person there (that I saw) who rode.
</biker rant>
Oh yeah, I stole some slashdot cups as well.
[1] I saw Guinness and Anchor Steam.
[2] I don't recall his name right now.
[3] Unix admin, mostly solaris, some linux, some bsd/os
feh.. where's my freebsdworld.... or maybe windowmaker world....
now now.. let's not start a fight...
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
So if they took it on the road, they could call it the "Rob Slashdotted CmdrTaco over Andover on the road, and now he's nothing but Freshmeat on the highway" Tour.
Sorry, it's been a long 10.5 hours. I need to go home.
-- 100% MS-Free as of 4-4-1999, 11:47:38 PST. "The lapdance is always better when the stripper is cryin'" Free Kevin,
Cool Gathering!!!! One thing though... For "Parties" like this... Linux needs to appeal, just a tad more, to the opposite sex!! :)
cause after midnight people start to puke all over place and things generally get rather ugly.
Here's a damn map: http://www.sanjose.org/nsapi/illustra/sj_bl_detail ?OID=210c.e615&p=%26search%3dparkside %26START%3d0%26PREV%3dsj%5fbl2 150 W. San Carlos Street. San Jose, CA 408-277-3900
Guinness,
It would be worth it just for the free beer.
MMMMmmmm Beer.
Three pints of Guiness is a quick lunchtime thirst-quencher, certainly nothing like enough to make me have a "rip roarin' good time" if I wasn't already.
Sheesh, three pints of Goodness was my usual lunch during finals..
Matthew.
Well that's really great then: Guiness.
;o)
Now we'll have to find out about trains from Palo Alto. My geek-girl no longer want's to drive back! (or if she wanted to, I wouldn't let her, knowing how she responds to that good ole G.)
I bet she'll drink Rob under the table.
Look fwd to see y'all tonite!
Breace.
A: Both are f*&@ing close to water.
"Dogs and cats, living together...it's mass hysteria!"
Look at the dept. listing right under the topic. It says: from the but-only-if-you're-in-san-jose dept.
And to think, I was just there last week on vacation, why oh why couldn't school start next week, so I could have gone to this. Crap : )
You just can't be a man till you drink. Bahahahah!
Serouisly though (if I could spell it.) People like you confuse me? What is your pupose in posting this. If you want to have a drink go get one. If you don't drink for a reason then stop whining about it. Either way its your choice so you can't blame anyone else.
Why is guinness the best beer?
Only beer you can chew.
Spreads on toast.
You can't make Guinness & Cider without it!
(There's a better name for guinness & cider...anyone know what it is?)
YEah, we should have an official 'slashdot' day where there'll be a party-like thing in a whole bunch of major cities, with live webcam feeds to/from all of 'em. That'd be cool. (I'm in the Philly area too) --TheOrangeSquid
mmmm...hard-up, soused geeks...and i completely forgot to go!
*grumble*
*ender*
Not for me. I prefer a polo shirt and a pair of semi-baggy cargo pants. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
see? i almost never drink anymore and i hit perfect pitch after a pint.
So will the menu consist of Tacos and Beer?
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Man, how come nothing cool like this happens in Iowa?
Oo, did I make #1?
I got all 70,000 shares I asked for. I am PUMPED! WooHoo! At last, I'll be financially independent. Or anyways, more financially independent than I was before. Actually I have millions of dollars already and I just surf the net all day, but I could always use another million. WooHoo!
Ahhh, thats better... done studying for my last final and now done with a few bong hits. Not too much, just about right to get a good high before going to bed to get up early for a test. Hope everyone had fun at the party :-}
By "bay area" do you mean lake mac? or some bay thereabouts?
Or did you leave Holland for California?
Werd.
I'm in the Bay Area, but I dont know where you
are talking about. Perhaps thats because I'm in
the Morecambe Bay area. We're not all hoopy
stateside SoCal froods you know!
Anyway, Guinness over here tastes _soooo_ much
nicer than over there!! Ha!
Enjoy it!
Baz
If I sent a self addressed and stamped box would you send me some beer? I really could use a Guiness right now. 119.5 seconds to the perfect pint.
J
Oh well, no point in steering now.
huh huh?
--Becky (who lives in the Bay Area, but already had plans for this evening)
Where exactly is this? What conference hall? Can you put a link to a yahoo map or something... OBFirst:First!?
well slashdot and freshmeat...now i will just have to cling to information about Disney please andover..dont take disneybuzz away from me...where will i be! hehe
Can someone post the address of the mall? I'd like to stop by, but need directions first. i like beer.
C'mon. Stop talkin' about y'all in Texas and come up to Seattle.
/.
If Tom Leykis can have such a good time here, so can
:-)
so do you think a bunch of linux geeks will be a rowdy group when they're all piss drunk? ;)
Its always fun to laugh at the puking people that can't control their alcholic intake. If they don't know how to drink resposibly then they shouldn't be their. Usally I don't arive to a party tell close to midnight. Thats when stuff gets going.
of course if you try to drink as much in 2.5 hours as you would in a whole night that would be the result
Heretic! Burn him! Burn him!
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
Guiness and Cider is called a bumblebee. And is damn tasty on a hot summer day.
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
you sound like you live in a pathetic town, like my friend dave lives in a crappy iowa town called Missouri Valley, IA !!! hahah, why don't you come into Papillion, NE, isn't a great place?
i'm in ny, ny.. and we have none of these things. that's the advantage of being in Cali.. its silicon valley over there.. while over here in ny.. it's just silicon alley.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Kevin, you are freakn' weird dude.
Some people seem to think having a high tolerance makes you more of a man, but it's really a pain in the ass. All a high tolerence means is that you have to drink more to get where you want to be; which means you spend more money and gain more weight. I'd be perfectly happy if alcohol had 3x the affect on me.
I'll take a few bong rips with everyone in mind =) And mabey I'll even worm my way over to the store to get some Guiness to try out again. Last time I had it it was too dark for me but my tastes they have been a' changin'
I wish they would come to houston, seeing how they are so rich now. :) (hint) I know of 1000+ people i could bring
Take a trip to Texas dude, and you'll find 5 point Bud.
I know, us OKies make a trip down to the border every other weekend to restock!!
any objections?
Bleh! Slashdot needs to throw a free-beer party in Texas!
And don't even consider Houston, pick Dallas. Thats where everything in Texas is afterall, either that or fortworth (hey we got a great sundance square & a great place to throw a party like this with a bar called the flying saucer right by it.)
Either that or rent out the Track, like Rockfest '97 & throw a SlashFest '99! Have free-beer, lots of bands, etc... But of course, charge money at the door or you'll go flat broke, us Texans love our beer! (Hey pitch in some Vodka while your at it!)
next time get Grolsch :)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
Well rather than get lost in the strings above I decided to post here. /grocery stores, everything else had to be bought in either state run liquor stores, or on the Class 6 stores on Military bases (Thanks for the dependant ID Dad! saved me a LOT of money on beer :) )
YES! Guinness most definately tastes better abroad (take that whichever way you like) Being an avid beer drinker/Irishman I could definately notice the difference quaffing a pint in Galway Ireland vs Galway NY,USA. In order for export, there does have to be an addition of preservatives, primarily since the shipping is usually sea-borne. (much like the Nouveau Beajolais in Nov. when the vineyards ship quantities via air and by boat. Air is just much more expensive)
As far as the alcoholic % of beer in the US. They usually peter out around 4-4.5 % for commercial brands. I try to keep my homebrew around 5-6% to match my canadian favourites (Molson Canadian and Labatts 50) But I have tipped the scales once with a 10% batch of porter *mmmmmm*
When I was going to school in UT, there was a law that you could only buy 3.2% beer from convenience
The highest alcohol content for a commercial "beer" Ive found is around 11% that is found in the Samual adams triple bock (not too sure about that one) but definately in EKU from europe.
I believe that the % for Guinness in the states runs the gambit between 5-6% to keep in accordance with certain import and truth in advertising laws that are rampant in this country. Hence why you an also get the better Molson's and Labatts by heading "North" of the border.
Just a quick heads up on the beer observations.
Have fun at the party guys I wish I could be there.
-- Life: Hate the Game... Love the cereal
For a variety of (legitimate) reasons, I got to work quite late today and cannot, in good conscience, attend the shindig, since I'd have to leave too early. (I had hoped to buttonhole one of the Slashdot guys.)
My fondest greetings to all who attend.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Well, you really have to have the Eurpean version to truly appreciate it. To be shipped to America it has to have many extra preservatives added and a reduced amount of alchol.
Why do Americans only drink thier beer cold?
So they can tell it from piss.
(btw I am an American, in America (USA to be exact) just cause I live here doesn't mean I have to like it)
Heck with Houston! Dallas is where it's at!!! We need a /. party in Dallas. ;P
How come you never thrown any parties in your hometown, where I live like 25 minutes away..
;)
BAH!
DISCLAIMER: This is only a suggestion!
The Greater Midwest Slashdot Festival
Location: Chicago IL
Why There: Probably less then 6 hours drive from most of the midwest
Who: Everyone who wants to, especially those who cannot make it to the Bay for any of the shindigs so far
Why This: Even us cowpushers enjoy fellow geeks company and beer
Date: Aug 25 (In memory of the first official posting of Linux on the comp.os.minix newsgroup)
Now I don't expect it to happen, nor can I organize such an event but imagine renting a small convention hall, getting some linux boxes networked for some LAN Quake matches, GOOD beer on draught and maybe some contests or something. D&D or Magic for the fantasy geeks, Star Wars trivial Pursuit, etc...
If anyone is going to pull something like this out you could count on me being there, its only a 5 hour drive or so.
--- Linux... a college project gone horribly right
We want to see pictures!!
/. in atlanta... wonder if we could get the Linux General store in atlanta to help out with it?
Aye, Aye, Captain! You've hit the nail upon the head!
I'm all for patriotism, but not if it involves Coors, Bud, or Miller.
Guinness for Strength!
Labbatts brews it for Canada, right here in good Ole London Ontario, using water from the always clean and clear Lake Huron. I drive past the place daily, and it sure SMELLS like a pint o' guinness ... ICK!
Fjord.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
that humming in your ears makes it very hard to listen to mp3s that early though ... at least not without pissing off the neighbours.
Fjord.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
Thats all it takes for me. i'm 6'2, 240 pds, and i'm drunk in 1 stinkin pint, of Keiths (my beer of choice).
I can go out and get myself drunk on 2 pints - total loss:
I love being intolerant! It's SOO wonderous!
Fjord.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
If you ever move this party to Chicago, then you could count on me to donate a couple of kegs of my prize-winning beer. A programmer who makes his own beer (I gotta get out way more often.)
So long and thanks for all the fish . . . !!!
I care more about the taste than the thick creamy head. The cans may give you the right Guinness head, but they taste bland just like the kegs. Even when done right, draft Guinness still isn't one of my favorite stouts because the flavor is too mellow. On the other hand, the bottled stuff is not the same brew as the cans & kegs. It may not have the same creamy Guiness head, but the bottled Guinness Extra Stout tastes much better. It has a slightly stronger chocolate malt flavor and a much stronger and more distinctive hops.
I believe the technical term for the "nice little spinner" at the bottom of the Guinness can is officially known as The Widget (check www.guinness.com)
->www.chuma.org, ranting and Newtons, what more could you want?
Shit i hate Australia (as if the internet legislation wasnt bad enuf). It fucking sucks ASS. Its so far from anywhere. Geek parties are a fantasiy for me rather than the reality for you guys...anyone have some $$$ to fly me over :) mr_anonymous@iname.com
I believe I read on http://beerismylive.com that Sam Adams Triple Bock runs to 14.5% (!) by volume. I believe that it also runs over $7 per bottle!
Hrm... I haven't observed that. Of course, I don't tend to hang out in places where Bud is the preferred beer. I think the Druid out in Cambridge is my favorite place so far, but I've only been up here for a few months.
I haven't been to Ireland yet, but when I was in Scotland last summer it was odd to see all the Bud adverts during World Cup. Most of the pubs I went into had Bud in bottles, but nothing on draft. The people I saw drinking it were usually women and only the occasional guy. I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to the guys in pubs, though. heh.
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A host is a host from coast to coast...
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
Will the first one in the door yell "First post"?
yeah... when is the MidWest Party!?
we like beer too.
Well, there's lots of names. Someone on IRC just told me it's called snakebite where they are (Canada, I believe), but in the UK, snakebite is lager and cider. Guinness and cider is a black velvet. (Properly, it's a poor man's black velvet, and I have a vague memory of being told that a real black velvet is Guinness and _champagne_ in equal measures - boggle!) A drink that I used to have a lot as a student (when you do this kind of thing...) was Guinness, cider and black. The black is a dash of blackcurrant cordial in the top. Yummy! The only drink that is harder to get back from the bar to the table in one piece without people coming up and asking to try it is a Green Monster (another name which has lots of varieties: cider, bitter and a measure of blue Bols. Yes, it's bright green.) And then there was the ever-popular game on the first night for new bar staff: asking for a Baileys and coke in a short glass. (It fizzes up and rises over the edge and then results in a thick crust on the top. A spoon helps.) Oh yes. One thing more. The cider in the UK is alcoholic. I gather this is not the case in the US as a rule. We are not talking apple juice here. We are talking a drink that's quite strong enough in its own right. :) Guinness, cider and black is well worth trying. I recommend it.
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Draft Guinness is 2.7%. For comparison, most shitty American light beers (Bud Light, Miller Lite, Coors Light, etc.) are in the 2.7-3.0% range. I suspect that the Guinness Extra Stout in a bottle is higher, but I'm not sure. It certainly tastes sharper.
Gladly. http://www.rent.net/ ; )
What % alcohol is Euro-Guinness, anyway?? For that matter, what's Amer-Guinness? I made a Guinness-style stout (minus the soured stuff they add to every batch, natch), but added molasses to it, and it's alcohol content was...well okay, I forget what it was. But it was GOOOO-oood stuff! =)
:P It's about time!!
I agree, by the by, that American beer has major problems. It is getting better though! We're finally recovering from prohibition.
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Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
I once saw an info sheet from a beer distributor a few years back. It had Guinness (in keg form) listed at 2.7%, which is near the bottom of the spectrum on alcohol content.
Actually, doesn't US Guiness have _more_
alcohol so that it can qualify as a "stout"?
Because as we all know, types of beer are really
determined by alcohol content.
I tend to agree if you are talking about draft Guinness. However, the Guinness Extra Stout in a bottle is much better. It's got a much stronger hops flavor which I like.
I say it's a pretty good idea, but if it is a Midwest get together, Chicago seems, well, kinda de-centralized from the midwest if you know what I mean.
Kansas City, MO, perhaps?
Over here in the US, the draught Guinness served in bars is a little bland. Many smaller American breweries make better stouts. However, the imported bottles of Guinness available here are different - and much better.
Bring this show to Manhattan and I'll show youse all how slash some dots!
The one from Piramid (brewed in Seattle and Berkeley)? ;)
Breace
cheers to all the luckies down in San Jose!
BTW, I go to Christie Hospital quite often for my project, so... that's already two persons for a (north-west) UK meet-up :-)
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
Stout, ale, lager, pilsner, etc. are essentially unrelated to alcohol content. It has to do with the brewing process. Stouts and ales are brewed at warmer temperatures (about room temperature or so), using ale yeast. Lagers and pilsners on the other hand, are brewed cold (around 40 degrees F) using a lager yeast, which is jsut a different kind of yeast that is active at a different temperature. These are generalizations, as steam ales are brewed with Lager yeast at ale temperatures, and of course there are other exceptions to the rule. Stouts tend to be more malty, in particular, they tend to include black patent and chocolate (named for the color, has nothing to do with chocolate) malts, which give them the dark color which people are used to. Guinness is unique inasmuchas every batch of Guinness is started with old, stale Guinness from a prior batch, kind of like sourdough bread. (No, don't ask where the first batch came from). It is also "carbonated" with a 75% CO2, 25% NO2 mixture, and poured through a microscreen in the tap head, which removes most of the larger, CO2 bubbles, and leaves only the tiny nitrous bubbles, leading to the popular cascade. Fact: ANY beer will cascade if poured using this gas mixture and process. Even Bud Light. We have tried it at our bar to prove someone wrong. I hope that was enlightening to SOMEONE, at least...
All that I can say is, for those who weren't there last night, you definitely missed something awesome when Richard Stallman started dancing. GNU/Dance was in full effect!
Now, will his dance be released under the GPL?
Not exactly. Guinness ships a "concentrate" to the states, which is "reconstituted" by the local breweries, I believe with a lager. This accounts for a large part of the difference between British Isles Guinness and Imported Guinness. And I believe that the bottled Guinness Extra Stout is in fact shipped in the bottles (but I am not sure about that one).
I can't make it out to California for LW, but the Atlanta Linux Showcase will be the place to be for geek partying (hey- I'll be there.. :*) So whaddya say guys- why not a party in ATL at ALS? -F
Yeah I've had it. Its not too too bad. Not my favorite either but when comparing alcohol content it wins over everything I've seen. I like the boston Ale and the summer ale mmmmm My girlfriend drinks Guiness yuck hehe
======== In the future, everything will be artificial. ========
What?
... but that was the only cool thing about the party... .. where was rock, where was pop, rap, punk, where was everything else beside progressive? - don't get me wrong ... i like progressive very much i was dancing non-stop, but ... ) 5) well where was the real party????? (i know this had to be just a decoy...)
Have you EVER been to real PARTIES. Hello, yes party was maybe great if you never go outside your house and this was the only time you see people
Come on guys... Go to europe to see what the word PARTY means.
Ok RMS dance was 'out of this world'
In general:
1) no girls
2) almost noone danced anyway
3) it ended too soon (the thing was almost over at 9:15... that's not a party) 4) DJ was playing only one type of music (hello
Get bored with slashdot. Guys.. you are much better partying over the net than in real world... stay there:)
Woke-up with a splitting headache and stayed in bed the whole following day.... much much worse than that night I was drinking thatcher's cider and Smirnov red... whatever the color, stay away from that crap, if you want to drink proper vodka, have Stolichnoya or Moskovkoya... chilled :-)
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
... and in the wheeler-dealer spirit of Salt Lake City and the Olympics, what do we need to do to get it moved to Tallahassee, FL? We're a Paaarty town and we really want the party here...
Now, what do we have to get a commitment today?
Geeky modern art T-shirts
Oh but what an alley it is. We really DO need some kinda /. party here, i mean come on, New York is a major metropolis, we have geeks. We must be able to get some kinda party going. hey, Maybe rob + company should take thier party on the road, that'd be great, hit all the major cities just having one big geek partyfest.
See Subject...
Yeah. It will probably also be something like 99% guys. I would still go for the free beer, though :)
Now you see why I posted anonymously ;-)
I went to visit my brother in San Jose this weekend. Just got back to Baltimore yesturday. Why couldn't you have had the party over the weekend? That would have kicked butt!
I have it on pretty good authority (a friend who works at the St. James Gate Guinness Brewery) that Guinness isn't shipped to the US at all -- Budweiser brews it in the states. Reciprocally, Guinness brews Budweiser in Ireland...
Hey, another non-Merkin slashdotter. And Liverpool's not that far from me in Manchester. Maybe we should have a NW England /. meetup, or summat? What's that about the party should liven up after the 3rd Guinness, anyway? What kind of lightweights are these Americans? Heh, 3 pints is just a quiet social night down the pub, guys: the party really gets going after the 3rd double whiskey, which comes after the four pints of [insert decent real ale here]. And a curry or a kebab or something, too... :)
-- I reserve the right to be completely wrong --
By Microsoft to make sure all the linux geeks are too hung over to hit up E-Trade when RH goes public tomorrow AM so they can snatch up a majority share.
How much guiness do you guys have? If i can get a find the right flight out, i might be able to save money on my bar tab tonight by coming out from chicago :)
We don't even get MacWorld anymore, just Seybold.
Feh!
Northeast's too conservative for me... think I want to move west coast where everyone's younger and not so inbred. Too many guilt-inflicting finger-pointing Puritans here..
Sigh. My company's migrating from Sendmail to Exchange. The server's been acting up, no wonder with all the 30 meg files being emailed on the old 200 MHz FreeBSD UNIX box. The new outsourced IT guys who scorn "shareware operating systems" can't wait to install Exchange on *different* hardware and reflect on the old days (where we could just Telnet in from offsite to get the friggin email):-/
- A.P. (nobody should appreciate Budweiser)
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I'm currently in San Jose on a business trip from the UK, I have a gorgeous apartment rented out for me by my company, swimming pools, spa, etc :))) I am planning to go clubbing tonight, somewhere with lots of girlies.... the usual thing for a 19 year old "raver at heart" to do :P So here's the question - do I go to this Slashdot event for the free beer and a "good time"? hehehe I have this stereotypical view of what it will be like but I'm just wondering on what opinions other people have - will this party break the geek mould? Help me make my decision guys! [kiWi]
Hey, I don't know about you Sad Sacks but I'm going to the Iowa State Fair! I go every year and have a swell time. It's a blast for everyone. There are all kinds of good eats, and fun rides, and interesting exhibits to see. So take off those glum faces and I'll see you all at the State Fair!
I feel sorry for any females that decide to show up. They'll be in a roomfull of lonly nerds.
my other penis is a vagina
The party will suffer due to the Slashdot effect! Imagine a million geeks crammed into a small area.
To bad you guys aren't located near Pennsylvania.....we need some friggin' excitement out here. I think the highlight of my day today was compiling 2.2.11! W00p!
Damn! I sure wish I had the little coins to get there. Anyway, drink away and howl at the moon! (works for me)
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
'Cause a Slashdot party don't stop!
:( Oh well, I stayed up and built some SRPMs for some Python and Emacs modules I care about. Makin' the world a better place, after lots of beer and a party w/ 500 of my "closest" friends. Not a bad night...
I came home after midnight to get online and gab about the party, but my ISP was down.
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
Dontcha just feel sorry for the poor AC who valiantly tried to get a first post...and didn't :)
I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
You better watch out. You can call the SF Bay Ares SoCal only at your peril! It's a really funny experience to have when you're traveling: You're near some bay, and some newscaster or newspaper or whatever refers to "the bay area" and I immediately think SF Bay, but whatever they're talking about makes no sense in that context. Then I'm like "Oh yeah, they mean their own bay" Seriously, though, The Bay Area is probably one of the most populated of "bay areas" and in any case, the one with the most to do with computers, so in any computer-ish context, assume "bay area" is the one with SF. -- dgies
Well, since I can't make it, tell San to play a tune of two for me...
:-) :-)
And tell him that the clinic called and that the tests came out negative
Q-Bert
Would that be Green Bay or Sturgeon Bay? heh... Well, 10^3 drunken Linux geeks in the same room _has_ to create something silly. :) How 'bout a new Guiness powered webserver?
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
Free GUINNESS? Oh geez, why do you have to do this to me, I have deadlines to attend to... :)
:)
anyhow, it should be a cool/interesting time. Cool because there's beer. Interesting because it's a room full of drunk geeks.
-Stu
Seriously, I know like 3 people her who use Linux! I think that's enough to justify holding it here! Now we just need to find someone to orgainze....
Going out on a limb, but I am betting that the conference center is the San Jose conference center where LinuxWorldExpo is being held. Check out http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/travel.htm#map for directions to the expo. If my guess on the location is wrong, then I'm going to be one unhappy camper (I hate San Jose). But SlashDot is a good reason to drive to LinuxWorldExpo one day early.
Hey, great note! It's refreshing to hear from soneone who really knows what he's talking about.
FYI, I understand Guiness in the bottle has a higher alcohol content although it doesn't carbonation cartridge. You won't get the cascade effect...but hey,after 3 or 4 you won't even care!
Cheers !
Hates people who have stupid little sigs
Yeah, Guinness in the bottle is an entirely different recipe than what you will get on draft here in the states. Notice that the bottles are Guinness EXTRA stout...which I understand is available on draft over in the isles.
German Beer is the best!!
Just had three Hefe-Weizen a hour ago.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I think Denis Leary in "The Irish In America" said it best, "Guinness: What tastes like God's nectar on the soft green plot of olde Ireland tastes like flat Coke with a chocolate Yoo-Hoo mixer here in the states"
Probably one of the best beers!! ever!!! being 1.5 hours from Chico (Davis) its a definite staple
oh yeah, did I say that SNPA is really good beer!?!
Can you drink and not be a geek?
February linuxworld is in New york city!
See you, space cowboy...
How about a party in Europe or better ... ...
in Germany
Have you ever drunk Hefe-Weizen, Rob?
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Sam Adams has the best beer IMO. Sam Adams Triple Bock weighs in at a nice 17.50% alcohol by volume MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tasty
======== In the future, everything will be artificial. ========
I've always heard it called a Crown Float. Go figure.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
FYI, the *GREEN* can Guinness is Guinness pale in most parts of the world. The stuff in the dark bottles with serial numbers is Guinness Dark; don't drink that unless a hangover is in your plans for certain. ;)
AND GET DRUNK!! Damn I wish I was at that party.
-RISCy Business | Rabid System Administrator and BOFH
your company here.
shelby != ford
Hi, Me and the guys at Oxlug meet the first Sundayof each month and have a drink before and after the meeting. I'm thinking I'm going to have to see if I can arrange (find some company willing to back the event) a similar event in the UK, get any ideas on this. I recon we'd have to wait now until after new year if we really wanna hire somewhere big and do it properly. Jon.
http://www.jonmasters.org/
I live in Bayarea and never heard of Parkside Hall.
E-mail me directions..
Zaw@home.com
Yeah, but have you actually tried the Triple Bock? I don't like it much - kind of like an evil combination of molasses and grain alcohol. I do like most of the SA line though, especially the Scotch Ale, IPA, and lager.
I thought that was only the draft Guinness. The bottled Extra Stout is imported, I think.
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This finally affirms to anyone that may have had other opinions, that this site has the coolest web admins anywhere.
if ($you_have_good_taste)
{
drink_guinness();
}
Of course... it's never quite as good as the Guiness served in Ireland...
Slashdot has to have a party here in Ireland...
Alternativvely I could just invite a load of total stranger to my flat like I usually do.
Maybe I just understand Guinness, but it never apealed to me that much. I suppost when you want alcohol and you're hungry, Guinness will work; but ingeneral as a beer, it seems a little too heavy for all the flavors to come through. Don't get me wrong, I like strong beer and I agree that Guinness *looks* amaving in a glass. It's just that Of the flavors in there, none of them really manages to come through all that strongly, like food that has been seasoned with too many things that it loses distinctness. Well, I guess it's all personal taste. Just give me a good Pale Ale or IPA any day over Guinness
That said, if you then try It in London it can get pretty bad (give me good pub addresses!!!! ;) and it tastes errr... different in France ('coz it's made at Kronenbourg factory in Strasbourg)
All in all, what's the point in getting sick with a bad importation of the real thing, which you can only really taste in Dublin?
On the other hand, it's still better than bud light or coors :->
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"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
What exactly will this loud music entail? Even though I can't even be there, I'm far more interested in that than in beer.
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Tell me about it.
:)
I'm in rural Iowa, altho 45 minutes from Omaha, Neb, it still sucks.
Someone want to buy me a plane ticket (directions would be nice too
You mean 10am, I hope? What kind of a lame-ass party starts at 7:30pm and only goes till 10? That's only 2.5 hours.
Not the difference... For those passing the joke on to others, remember this detail. :)
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
WOW, this is a good idea. I won't be able to attend this year, as college classes start for me 18 August. But we really ought to do this next year. Wow i hope someone can organize this thing, that woudl be amazing. Not a lot of linux action in Arkansas (where I live) and Mississippi (where i go to school. *sigh*. James
That's one thing that always bugged me about california. Southern california is on the border, and northern california end halfway up the state... what's the rest? "Southern Oregon" is usually the response, delivered with a laugh or a sneer. As someone who lives even further north than Oregon (and thus further from the center of the universe that most californians seem to think they live in), I have to say that the only thing that sucks about being in a nice, unpolluted, clean, green, tech savvy city is that there are so many asshole californians moving up here with their SUVs and whitebread racism.
Who was the famous San Francisco columnist who wrote of Los Angeles, "Isn't it nice that all of the people who prefer LA to SF live there?" I would say the same thing about most of California.
the wierd thing is that all the irish (read:from Ireland) people here in boston that i know drink bud.
must be something in the air.
Synergies are basically awesome, and they're even better when you leverage them. -PA
The only vodka worth drinking is of course Swedish Absolut!
What you need for a good night out:
-----------------------------------
50 cl Absolut Citron (80 proof)
A few 5.2% beers (Lapin Kulta, Carlsberg, Tuborg, Spendrups 1828,
Some money to buy more alcohol at the pub/club
A bunch of crazy friends
The drawback? No coding the next day.
Free your mind!
Shindig? You guys aren't even going to be bold enough to declare it a full-fledged hootenanny?! C'mon, have confidence!!
darius
"my ma always told me too much book-learnin'll make you stupid."
darius
I need a way to filter out these damn posts. Until free-as-in-beer /. shows up in Houston, I don't even wanna *hear* about this! :P
jetpack
IMO, being a geek entails the use of a computer while totaly piss ass drunk. but there are also other qualities, such as going 3 days without sleep, forgetting to sleep, forgetting to eat... but also being under the influence of other subtances, controled and illegal, while using a computer. but i may also be wrong about that. who knows, but if ur willing to drag your self home at 3am, and then get on the computer for 2-3more hours while totally fucked up, it think u will qualify as a geek. i think i am a geek, but maybe im not...ill have a nervous breakdown now...
me
...I walk by the door every minute until it opens, then run in and shout "first guess!"?
...I point out all the beer options that have not been provided and say "Rob/Andover/Hemos Sux"?
...I do nothing but point out all the grammar mistakes in the band's songs?
...I keep saying how I proposed this party months ago but nobody would listen and I resent the fact that now CmdrTaco is taking all the credit for it?
I am leaving for San Jose tonight for a business trip not related to LWE. I won't get there until 9:30 PM, and I likely won't be able to attend the expo due to work. =(
Let's try not to let fact interfere with our speculation here, OK?