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August 06, 2005
OSCON crashing
The past week was rather interesting with OSCON going on. I somehow managed to slip into all the useful parts of OSCON, you know the free beer and pizza parties. While some of the tracks sounded interesting, I wasn't about to pay for them out of pocket, nor was my employer. I managed to meet Dan Scott (of IBMs DB2 division), whom I had an interesting series of emails with about a year and half ago. Andrei was out as well, and it was good to see him. George made an appearance too! Met an interesting coworker of Andrei's, Ben of PHP from Atlanta, an Aussie couple (Laura and Luke), Marcus of PHP, Stephan, and Jeff from Conn. Good times were had. Well except for those times with Marcus where he was forcing me to drink more...
Things I learned at OSCON:
- Yep, there are really some extreme geeks out there. By extreme I mean guys who just don't understand that I really don't care if programming language X does something better than Y. I just need to get a project done.
- Some geeks need to learn some serious social skills. I'm probably one of them too, for having ditched my party once, but some were just lacking in the interaction area.
- Andrei can kick my ass at pool. I'll have to work on getting back into billiards shape quickly.
- When leading geeks around, you're going to hear constant remarks on how lost they think they are, and your inability to lead. It really is like cat herding.
Anyhow thanks for coming out everyone. I had a great time, and I'm sure the photos will be online somewhere. Just not here...
Posted by Dan at August 6, 2005 02:27 PM