[Phoenix-pm] Live from YAPC!

[Scott Walters]

By the way, I'm back in town.  We should do a meeting as soon as reasonable =)

Here's another fun thing -- people's highs/lows/etc from the con:

http://yapcchicago.org/wiki/index.cgi?HighLowGoalCrushBane

-scott

On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> More media... here's a lightning talky thingie where a bunch of people get
> convicted.  It's following in the joke that the SSV (Something Student Village)
> dorm looks like a prison, with all of it's stainless steal and concrete, not to
> mention metal mesh and grating.  Mostly the talk is pictures of well known
> Perl people guissed up as criminals:
> 
> http://rjbs.manxome.org/tmp/yapc2006.mov
> 
> It's a lot funnier when it's being ready with the correct inflection etc.
> 
> -scott
> 
> PS: Correcting the previous note (writing these with just brief chunks of time
> up until now), the URL is for the previous performance of this which happens
> to be non-English.  I'm still waiting to see of Audrey's version, which is
> English, makes it up as a movie.
> 
> -scott
> 
> 
> 
> On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> > You MUST view the video of Takesako's YAPC::Asia presentation as performed
> > by Audrey.  
> > 
> > http://www.archive.org/download/YAPCAsia2006TokyoLightningTalkppencodeforPerllover/yapc_060330_ppencode_for_perl_lover.mov
> > 
> > Think that's Japanese.
> > 
> > Ingy shuffled his slives before giving his talk (actually, as he started his talk) -- 
> > on purpose.  Half of them are on topic.  Half of them are funny.  All of them are 
> > strange.
> > 
> > Everyone is on the irc.perl.org #yapc channel talking about the presentations as 
> > they happen/conclude.  Still laptops everywhere.  Someone just got gonged off
> > stage when they hit their time limit.
> > 
> > Jose sublet out his lightning talk and is giving his friends all 30 seconds to
> > read their proffered up half arsed technology predictions and it's funny as heck.
> > 
> > Oh, and now it's theater, involving Damian.  And Randal.  
> > 
> > -scott
> > 
> > On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> > > Hi Phoenix.PM,
> > > 
> > > Wow.  Okay, I knew Randal threw a big party every year.  I didn't know everyone was invited.
> > > I'm just back from that, about 1:30 am local time.  I blogged whining about not meeting
> > > people and the talks being boring.  Well, I met a bunch of people and saw some cool
> > > talks.  Everyone loosens up in the evening but the concentration of 400 programmers in
> > > one place is intense during the day.  They did an auction and I got a limited edition
> > > Larry Wall action figure.  Got to ride the train back with Larry Wall.  At one point, 
> > > we were switching trains and were standing on the platform.  He pulled out a small
> > > compass of the sphere variety, looked at it, and commented to those in earshot that every
> > > memory of his is tagged with a direction he was facing, right or wrong.  Met a bunch
> > > of other interesting people and a bunch of other people of fame, but I'm going to not
> > > list them because that's silly.  Everyone is extremely easy going.  Have a small clip
> > > of video I'll try to rip (camcorder, not $10 camera) of Larry Wall being auctioned off
> > > (for lunch).   Talks are starting to appear on line.  Here are some links to slides
> > > and such:
> > > 
> > > http://pugs.blogs.com/talks/yapcna-deploy-perl6.swf
> > > http://www.pmichaud.com/2006/pres/yapc-perl6/slide.html
> > > http://perlcabal.org/~gaal/peek/index.html
> > > http://www.pmichaud.com/2006/pres/yapc-parsers/slide.html (to become valid some point tomorrow)
> > > http://blog.bulknews.net/mt/archives/iTunesHacks-YAPCNA.pdf
> > > http://wgz.org/chromatic/talks/perl_hacks.tar.gz
> > > 
> > > http://pugscode.org/talks/oscon05/movies.html
> > > 
> > > More are at http://yapcchicago.org/wiki/index.cgi?YAPCSlides but those were my
> > > favorites (in no particular order).
> > > 
> > > The campus is beautiful.  I've had apartments smaller -- and not as nice -- as the SSV
> > > double dorms.  I could write an essay on just that:  the wrap-around floor to ceiling
> > > windows, the furniture, large bathroom with shower and toilet a room off of the
> > > bathroom, curved aircraft like "hull", patios on the top floor for parties that don't
> > > disturb your neighbors, etc, etc.  IIT is largely an architecture school and they
> > > walk the walk. Some people complain about the bare cement and metal, but I think
> > > it fits nicely with the idea of "postmodernism" with the exposed ducts and all that
> > > that Larry described as a Perlish philosphy in one of his early State of the Onion
> > > addresses.  And while it lacks some superficial comforts such as carpet (ick), it
> > > has others, such as breaks in the building with mini gardens so that the rooms on the
> > > end have a view too, and the top floor patios and commons areas.  The architect
> > > also eliminated the long-dark-hall syndome.  The main halls house the commons areas,
> > > main desk on the first floor, elevator landings, etc, and are glass on both sides.
> > > The halves of the building connected by this hall have an internal, non-day-lit
> > > hall, but the tunnel effect is offset by the main hall being daylit and open.
> > > 
> > > More than anything else, YAPC seems to be one huge retreat for hard core and
> > > aspring Perl goons, with technical meetings all day long and social meeting
> > > into the night.  Calling it a con underemphasizes the closeness of the community.
> > > 
> > > -scott
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > http://slowass.net/~scott/larry_talks_people_listen.jpg
> > > > 
> > > > Other animated gif is still uploading.  Sorry.
> > > > 
> > > > -scott
> > > > 
> > > > On  0, Scott Walters <scott at illogics.org> wrote:
> > > > > http://slowass.net/~scott/larry_at_yapc.gif
> > > > > 
> > > > > If people are interested I'll try to get some better pics.  $10 camera.  Sorry.
> > > > > There are a hell of a lot of laptops in the audiance.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -scott
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