<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Hi everyone,</span><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>We&#39;re getting close to the event, so here&#39;s a reminder - The evening of Wed 16 July 2008, Damian Conway, Perl expert
extraordinaire, Open Source luminary, and long-time friend of the
Toronto Perl Mongers, will deliver -- free and to the public -- one of
his signature tour-de-force completely insane talks that is 1/3
high-end IT, 1/3 showmanship and 1/3 peyote-fuelled hallucination.&nbsp;
Here are the details:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Talk:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&quot;Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&nbsp;Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&nbsp;Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy&quot;</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">This will be the world premiere of the talk.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wednesday 16 July 2008</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Time:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6:30pm - 9pm</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Location:&nbsp; Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College Ave</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">.<br>



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Room # BA 1160</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.052328,95.009766&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.659986,-79.396745&amp;spn=0.004137,0.011598&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=addr" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.052328,95.009766&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.659986,-79.396745&amp;spn=0.004137,0.011598&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=addr</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">As
I have done the past 4 times Damian has come to Toronto to give talks I
will take up a collection.&nbsp; This is to help defray expenses and to
provide Damian with an honorarium for the talk.&nbsp; Donations are
completely voluntary.&nbsp; If you feel motivated and/or in the right place
financially to make a donation please get in touch with me or visit the
Paypal links at <a href="http://hew.ca/" target="_blank">http://hew.ca/</a>.&nbsp;
The Toronto Perl Mongers and the other groups who have attended
Damian&#39;s talks have always been incredibly generous in supporting
Damian whenever he has visited in the past and both he and I thank
everyone for all the support he has received over the years.<br><br>FWIW, I have Facebook and Upcoming events for this set up now too -- <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22670172852&amp;ref=mf">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22670172852&amp;ref=mf</a> and <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/818803/">http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/818803/</a></span><br>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">&nbsp;- Richard</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">PS&nbsp;
For those of you who don&#39;t know Damian, here is some background info on
him.&nbsp; He&#39;s _not_ just a Perl hacker.&nbsp; If you&#39;re into IT in any way,
shape or form prepare to have your mind blown...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html" target="_blank">http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">


<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&amp;type=1" target="_blank">http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&amp;type=1</a> -- I like the &quot;... is my personal savior&quot; one</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710" target="_blank">http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710</a>&nbsp; -- we are getting his OSCON 2008 keynote delivered here first!</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">



<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html" target="_blank">http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html</a>
-- to hear one of his previous OSCON keynote talks (although this talk,
as is the case with all his talks, is really enhanced by the slideshow
that goes along with it)<br><br></span>
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