[yapc] [joke] What went wrong at this YAPC

[Jose Castro]

On Jul 1, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:

>>>>>> "JC" == Jose Castro <jose.castro at log.pt> writes:
>
>   JC> 1 - There were security issues!
>   JC> 	How on Earth did you guys let the Toronto Perl Mongers kidnap 
> Larry?
>
> he was a very cheap ransom. and i recall some portuguese terrorist was
> involved and we are hunting him down

Do you need ninjas? O:-)


>   JC> 2 - The entertainment sucked!
>   JC> 	I mean... Uri singing?
>
> you could have bid more to prevent that.
>
>   JC> 3 - You made somebody's life miserable!
>   JC> 	I'm talking about the next organizers, who will have trouble 
> meeting
>   JC> the standards you've just set.
>
> there are always ways to improve things. not inviting you will help.

Ouch...


>   JC> 4 - The schedule was badly organized!
>   JC> 	I mean... so many great talks at the same time? Are you trying 
> to make
>   JC> the attendees' heads explode by making them think on what 
> they're going
>   JC> to see?
>
> damian can make your head explode all by himself. wear more tin foil
> hats next time.

Point taken.


>   JC> And last, but not least (from my point of view, anyway):
>
>   JC> 5 - You're going to make me poor!
>   JC> 	Now that I enjoyed this damn conference so much, I'm probably 
> gonna
>   JC> come to YAPC::NA every single year, thus spending money that I 
> could so
>   JC> very well spend in very-cheap-Portuguese-beer... if I drank 
> any...
>
> get drunk on port (named for your silly country) instead!

Port is not named after the country, it's named after a Portuguese city 
:-)


>   JC> Josh and Pete...
>
>   JC> I hate you, guys :-)
>
> i hate them too!

Considering your singing, I'd say they now hate you back O:-)


>   JC> PS: I hope that everybody realizes this was a joke and that I 
> loved
>   JC> this YAPC :-) Best regards to all of you and I hope to see you 
> again in
>   JC> a very near future :-)
>
> we take comments like this very seriously and will report them to the
> highest authorities. guido van rossum will be paying a visit to you 
> soon
> and break your fingers in such a way that you can only type rigid 
> python
> code.

Oh crap... er... OK, I'm just gonna leave the country, OK?


cog


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