Thursday morning and day four of OSCON is sunnier than the last two have been. Though it’s still chilly outside, it’s comfortable inside the convention center, so far. I’m once again having breakfast in the expo hall after getting too little sleep.
Sadly, yesterday during the morning keynotes, Al was called back home abruptly. Hopefully, he made it back to the UK quickly and safely.
After all the sessions were said and done for the day, we found our way to the expo hall, where beer and appetizers were being served. Alas, we did not stay long. We caught wind that Google would be hosting pizza across the river at Old Town Pizza, an event we never made it to. It turned out to be a pizza dinner for Summer of Code participants. We finally ended up at Rogue for dinner, and I finally got myself a growler for my collection—currently being held (safely?) in Brad’s hotel room refrigerator.
After dinner, we swung by the supposed Amazon party. Only, there wasn’t one. It was only held between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. Seriously? This is how Amazon throws a party?
Fortunately, the Sun party was a better this year. First of all, they had no stupid lolspeak flyers. Second, bottled beer instead of kegs, which is difficult for incompetent bartenders to over-prime and serve nothing but head. Third, sumo wrestling! Brad and I also participated; those photos are coming soon, I promise.
However, as I actually enjoy attending the keynote sessions—scheduled far too early in the morning—I was back in my hotel just after 11:00pm. I ran into Dan and his fellow TierraNet colleagues in the hotel bar. Unfortunately, I had missed last call, but I sat down for a bit anyway. We had some laughs with Margaret, the bartender. I tried to get her to slap Tyler, but sadly it never happened.
Today’s session tracks begin with a dilemma. Unfortunately, I’d like to be in three places, simultaneously.
- Skimmable Code: Fast to Read, Safe to Change (Michael Schwern)
- Open Source Microblogging (Evan Prodromou)
- Stick a fork() in It: Parallel and Distributed Perl (Eric Wilhelm)
Fortunately, Brad wants to go to Michael Schwern’s talk, so I’ve agreed to attend Eric Wilhelm’s talk. We’ll write summaries and both be happy. The microblogging session was just a curiosity for me anyway.
The rest of the day won’t require quite as much rolling of dice.
- Perl for Political Campaigns (Chris Nandor)
- Ultimate Perl Code Profiling (Tim Bunce)
- Hacking Wetware for Fun and Profit (Paul Fenwick)
- Perl Lightning Talks
- State of the Onion Address
The only potential conflict is during the second half of the Perl lightning talks, A Tasting Tour of Haskell (Bryan O’Sullivan).
Just about time for the morning keynotes, and I’m looking forward to seeing Nat Torkington speak. If I can reconnect to the wifi network, I can even post this entry.
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