I'm FINALLY getting a chance to post again!
My computer died in a puff of smoke as I was trying to copy my pics from it. Luckily, after much work, I have recovered my entire hard drive. Even luckier, my laptop was still under warranty... by ONE F'N DAY
I'm not going to post my pics right now. It's really just more of the same. I must say though, I don't think I look like your "typical" programmer
lol
Here is my account of what happened at the convention:
Fri 8:00pm:
Arrived at the Ship Hotel in Chichester. It was a very happening place. There were loads of nice looking girls EVERYWHERE.
Checked into the hotel, and brought my bags upstairs. I wandered back downstairs wading through all of the people wondering how the hell I was going to find the TGC people. I saw a corner of the bar with a bucnh of odd looking fellows in it. Ahhh.... that must be them. Indeed it was. I don't think I saw another hot girl all night
Batvink was very kind and bought me a beer. I returned the favor a short time after. Lagmaster layed on the floor in a pool of booze. Shortly after he stumbled back to his hotel. Everyone mostly discussed topics that are banned on these forums (religion, polotics, etc....)
Sat (Approx 3:45am):
Only Mike, Lee and myself were left in the bar. Although Mike was still there, he dropped out of the conversation around 2:30. He had this kind of look on his face
He told Lee that he needed to go up to the room, so we all decided to call it a night. Not before Lee got all of the half-empty beers on the table (there were quite a few) and poured them all into about 2 glasses. Lee downed that and stumbled upstairs.
I set my alarm for 9am, but woke up at 8am ready to go.
I went and had breakfast with Ian, then went to the convention room.
Philip gave a nice speech on the governing laws of jam sandwiches.
Mike gave a nice presentation on the physics pack.
Lee finally woke up at about 2pm. He graced us with a nice demo on using FPSC levels in DBpro projects. Cool stuff
I left on a train for London around 5:30pm
All in all, it was a GREAT time. Especially friday night. Thanks to all of you for welcoming a far travelled American to you group. I still can't believe the coincidences and aligning of stars that allowed me to attend. Since there is probably NO CHANCE IN HELL that I will be able to attend next year, maybe I can try to arrange a US convention instead.
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