<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>(This is a reminder email, same content as before. Please note that Thu 8 Aug with be a double-feature; 2 talks for the price (a.k.a. free) of one!)</b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Good news, everyone!</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr. <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> Conway will be coming to visit the computer tech community of Toronto during the first week of August 2013. <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> is a Master Hacker and fantastic, entertaining presenter. The Perl community has known and loved him for decades but he has something to offer anyone who is interested in programming and computer science regardless of your language of choice. His talks are both educational and entertaining! And, they're free. <i>(But we are taking donations. See details below.)</i></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Tuesday Aug 6 @ 7pm (please enter the room approx. 6:45pm)</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Mozilla Offices, Suite 500, 366 Adelaide Street West (just east of Spadina)</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>"Fun With Dead Languages" -- <a href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">damian</span>.conway.org/Seminars/DeadLanguages.html</a></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Watch in mesmerized terror as <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> hacks code in several unrelated programming languages (none of them Perl). Along the way, you'll also discover what's wrong with modern CS education, why programmers shouldn't frequent casinos, the power of Thor's Law, the language of moisture vaporators, C++ mysticism, how to use the three shells, state machines on steroids, programming without variables or subroutines, a cheap and eco-friendly alternative for distributed persistent computation, what the Romans used instead of braces, the ancient probabilistic wisdom of bodkins, and the price of fish.</blockquote>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(Ed.: This is going to be the more outlandish of his talks this year. It is a new-and-improved version of a talk <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> last gave in Toronto seven years ago where he demonstrates his virtuosity -- and insanity -- in many programming languages and paradigms. Computer geeks from all language backgrounds should enjoy this thoroughly.)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Thursday Aug 8 @ 7pm (please enter the room approx. 6:45pm)</b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>University of Toronto, St. George Campus (downtown), Bahen Centre for IT (40 St. George Street, just north of College St.), Room # BA-1160</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Talk # 1 - "A Few Of My Favorite Things"-- <a href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/FavoriteThings.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">damian</span>.conway.org/Seminars/FavoriteThings.html</a></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">(Go to the URL, read the description. It will be Perl 5 Madness, <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> style.)</blockquote>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Talk #2 - "Sex and Violence: Social and Technical Lessons from the Perl 6 Project" -- <a href="http://damian.conway.org/Seminars/SexViolence.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">damian</span>.conway.org/Seminars/SexViolence.html</a></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">In June 2000, Larry Wall announced a new four-month Open Source development effort: the reinvention of Perl. In this keynote, <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> Conway will unfold the twisting and sordid tale of what happened over the next ten years of the project, highlighting the sexy new language that has been created, the extreme violence that was sometimes necessary to make it happen, and the dozen or so harsh-but-invaluable lessons that the development team learned along the way.</blockquote>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>About <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For those of you who don't already know...</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * <a href="http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">damian</span>.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* <a href="http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-damian-conway-scie.html" target="_blank">http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">damian</span>-conway-scie.html</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> * What the Internet thinks of him! -- <a href="http://www.googlism.com/who_is/d/damian_conway/" target="_blank">http://www.googlism.com/who_is/d/damian_conway/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span> has given talks in Toronto most years since 2001 and they are widely enjoyed, even by IT people who don't normally "do the Perl thing." Think of it as the Toronto IT community's annual party.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>I can has donation plz?</b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span>'s trip to Toronto is un-funded... that is, as of right now it's coming out of his own pocketbook. However, as I have done for the past 13 years I am organizing a community pass-'round-the-hat donation to help cover the expenses (i.e. a plane ticket, roughly a week of hotel rooms, and meals and other incidentals while he is here). If you would like to help out with these expenses, please get in touch with me off-list. Donations from companies are gladly welcomed, too! Any funds raised in excess of what is needed to cover his expenses will be given to him as an honorarium for his visit.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please circulate this email announcement! Forward to any one / any company you think might be interested. We always have a great crowd come out for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Damian</span>'s events and getting the word out widely is a big part of that. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Did I omit any important information? Please ask me, and when I send out reminder emails I will include that info in them.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Looking forward to seeing you soon...</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> - Richard</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
P.S. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D1cap6yETA</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div>