95% of the members of this list are probably not familiar with an old WISPCON story that had to do with chickens being currency in Latvia and how I love to throw some abuse at the Mikrotik guys about this when I see them. For those 5% though, I think you will appreciate that perhaps the Latvians are actually ahead of us:
http://lowdenplan.com/ The full Mikrotik chicken story is at the end of this email, for those of you who might be interested. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com The Mikrotik Chickens story During one of the Chicago WISPCONs (4 or 5, I believe) we had an off-campus excursion that involved limosines, liquor and late night activities. At one point in the evening, I was in a limo with Arnis from Mikrotik. For those who don't know him, Arnis is a very softspoken and intelligent guy. The rest of the people in the limo were pretty loud and raucus, while Arnis mostly sat quietly and watched. At some point in the conversation, John Scrivner asked him what the "gentlemen's clubs" in Latvia were like. At the same time, someone else was talking about getting some fried chicken and coming up with money to get it. Between the two conversations, I thought that something was said about chickens being used as currency in Latvia. Smart ass that I am, I thought I'd make a comment: Me: "Hey John, what's the worst thing about a Latvian gentleman's club?" John: "I don't know." Me: "Slipping the chickens into the dancer's G-string!" From that point on, I have been quite boorishly giving the Mikrotik guys the business about chickens as currency. A picture of a chicken in a hotel lobby became the "Latvian Express Card". An order of wings is "pocket change" Etc etc. It has been an endless source of amusement for me, and not particularly funny to anyone else. Arnis got me at the last MUM. He saw my business name (Vistabeam) and started laughing at me. I asked him what was so funny. He said that "Vista" means chicken in Latvian. So the Latvian version of my business name is "Chicken Wireless". Of course, this turned out to be total BS, but I didn't get it figured out until a week later when I went online and figured out that the Latvian word for chicken is "calis". Well played Arnis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
