JavaOne Day two and a half
I thought it might be mildly entertaining to try and spew out a J1 report while being somewhat intoxicated. So fret not if the quality is not quite up to the standards that one might expect, I have an interesting alcohol content within, to put it mildly.
The evening started off well enough, with a pleasant outing with the universal mother, Cameron Purdy. He dropped me off at the tangosol party (the poor bastard had to go attend a BOF), and went his merry way. I had a few drinks, met a number of random people whose names I’d be hard pressed to care about, let alone remember, and got a number of incoherent phonecalls from crazybob.
At this point, I decide that it’s useless attempting to actually decipher what bob is saying, and head home to an early night. I assume that tomorrow will involve more ludicrous antics and that I could get a jump start on the whole ordeal by sneaking in a decent night’s sleep.
Not so! As I’m happily snuggling into bed, comforted by all the idiots out there drinking themselves into various states of vegetation, none other than crazybob calls yet again. This time, he refuses point blank to get off the phone unless I agree to show up at the borland party.
June 30th, 2004 at 7:41 am
If you had _me_ with you, I would have kept you out of those dens of evil ..
Signed,
Your Mom.
June 30th, 2004 at 9:20 am
if you say random again I’m going to cry
June 30th, 2004 at 10:06 am
Heh, the British have such cool sounding insults. ‘gits’, ‘wankers’, ‘tossers’…hard to imagine an American trying to work these into a sentence. A couple of us wasted a good 15 minutes of company time one day seeing if we could manage to do this without sounding like wannabes.
June 30th, 2004 at 11:05 am
That was great hani — you really should drink more
June 30th, 2004 at 12:16 pm
In my drunken state, I accidently typed bileblog.com instead of the jroller.com. But lo and behold if the bileblog didn’t pop up. I don’t remember seeing this advertised, and it appears the name was bought in August last year. Very interesting.
June 30th, 2004 at 3:12 pm
By the way, we reduced Groovy’s build duration to around only 9 minutes! But I haven’t yet ditched Maven in favour to Ant to earn the $50 you promised me. Have a nice J1 Hani.
June 30th, 2004 at 3:38 pm
As a recovering alcoholic, all I can say is that your last few posts have been something of a challenge…
July 1st, 2004 at 1:35 pm
You know “not nearly as insane or deranged” sounds like you too, Hani :-)
July 8th, 2004 at 1:45 pm
Not me, I was not there. I was drinking and playing music in the West of Ireland at the time. One less choice for your mystery interviewer.