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OK, everybody (xavier, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) ezod) is getting on the bandwagon of reviewing Penguicon 7.0. So yeah, here's what I took away from the whole thing.
$50 for a whole weekend of free booze, my geek heroes talking about tech, and mingling crowds of geeks. Absolute heaven. There were furries, cosplayers, men dressed as women, board games, stormtroopers, goths with jingly fat bellies, people striding around in steampunk outfits, and a guy dressed as Jesus.
And that Jesus person was witness to me calling Eric Raymond an "arrogant elitist bastard" at the top of my drunken lungs. Which is a lot; I have a loud voice. Especially when I've been DRINKING.
There were 16 year old girls with ears and tails leading each other around with leashes. NO, nebajoth. NO.
Suckers stood in line for 3+ hours to get some salty beef cooked on a BBQ. I'm convinced they only thought it was worth it because "Brazil" has become synonymous with both Terry Gilliam and Open Source, so "Brazilian Beef" hit all sorts of pleasure centers in their brain. I can't explain missing 3 hours of primetime geek seminars in the middle of Saturday otherwise.
We originally had tickets, but we redeemed them after watching the line for about 3 minutes.
There were dudes with PVC swords who would only let me pick one up after I promised not to swing it. He said it was made out of GRAY PVC which is MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN WHITE PVC. WHAT.
I volunteered at the con, earning WHUFFIE. Enough WHUFFIE, in fact, to go free next year. Woo! In order to get enough hours (8), I helped set up the Steampunk Masquerade and manned Operations in the wee hours of the morning. Not so bad when there's beer and hot cosplay chix to chat up.
OK OK OK... you want to know about the panels? Well, do you really?
Well, QUICKLY: the lightning talks were awesome. Jorge Castro from Ubuntu has a posse, and they all wear heavy metal shirts. He did a thing on the bells and whistles the Ubuntu default for GNU Screen, and how useful they are for server administrators. COOL.
Kyle Rankin is probably going to eat the internet, and his talk on DNS servers, undertitled "How to take down the Internet in 13 Easy Steps" was particularly informative.
There was a talk on nanotech that totally kicked ass. I ended up going because nobody showed up to show off the glitz of "The Upcoming Linux Desktop", and it was right next door. It was intensely interesting, and the guy really knew his stuff -- probably learned the most in that seminar.
I think my favourite part of the whole con was when I popped into teh Karaoke room on Friday and there was dude fucking SCREAMING "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. Like, gutteral throat-screaming metal style.
It was awesome.
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I'm not saying. I'm just saying.
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GOOD MORNING AND HELLO o/
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long as hell, but completely worth it - engrossing, entrancing, modern but with actual movements. totally rocks.
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this song makes me want to watch looney toons
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retro 8bit stylez, droney but good to play vidz to
May. 6th, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
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Great effing Radiohead song not on any of their EPs, no idea why... got a raw strength to it that just kicks ass
May. 6th, 2009 @ 09:50 pm
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addictive and energetic
May. 6th, 2009 @ 09:19 am
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This song sounds like it was sung by the firstborn son of Bob Dylan and Emiliana Torrini. Check out the synth line, srsly.
May. 5th, 2009 @ 08:49 am
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