Well, damian is always an event =) Now, Bill, where are those pictures ? ;-)
Best -Federico Uri Guttman wrote: > hi all, > > there was a massive turnout tonight for damian's talks. i counted 77 > mongers and guests and only about 45-50 sent in rsvps! the rest of you > should be very ashamed of yourselves as we did sorta run out of pizza! > 18 pies was the order for an estimated 50+. so you who didn't rsvp and > ate pizza stole it from the starving mouths of those who showed up a bit > late and did rsvp! next time, do the right thing and rsvp so we order > the right amount. now on to more nice things. :) > > thanx to the primary sponsors, greg london and richard morse. with their > donations and hat passing we collected about $370 and our pizza expense > was about $280 so the rest will go to tpf. > > thanx to those who brought drinks, paper goods and foil. and to those > who helped set up the pizza tables. and to that solo guy who was > cleaning up while damian started his second talk. > > thanx to those silly foil hat contestants. we will have to put some of > those pix on our wiki. some of the foil hats were very cute and > functional! some of you should go become milleners (see danny kaye in > secret life of walter mitty for a great song about that). and the > casualty rate was very low for a damian talk so the hat protection > factors were high. > > thanx to bestfriendscocoa.com (hey, i gotta plug the wife's biz!) for > donating the prizes for the hat contest. get some for the fall/winter > weather. makes a great ice breaker at naughty parties! > > thanx to all the attendees for laughing constantly throughout the > talks. most of you couldn't help it so that is understandable. :) > > thanx to damian for always giving us a talk when he is in town and for > tonight's mind melting and patented CXAP. now that most of you have seen > it, his pun on google's name is amazing to me in that no one has ever > (to my knowledge) made it before. > > thanx to bill ricker for helping damian setup and for driving him home > after damian drove us nutso. > > all in all a very fun and successful evening. hopefully many of you will > come to other boston perl monger meetings where we don't have such > famous speakers and just talk perl stuff. we do have some very > interesting talks so come on down! > > thanx, > > uri > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
