[ale] comdex

[Joseph A. Knapka]

rhiannen wrote:
> 
> It's a mega-combo offering this year. Too bad it happens so soon on the
> heels of Dragon*Con.  After working behind the scenes at both (on the
> floor at a Comdex, Vegas and helping EFF out at Dragon*Con), I much
> prefer the bazaar style fun and fantasy commercialism of Dragon*Con's
> dealers room over the glitzy hyper-megacorporation chrome and plastic
> commercialism of NetWorld+Interop-Comdex.
> 
> We're working staff for the EFF panels (down in the basement next to the
> electronic gaming) or we couldn't afford Dragon*Con this year.  On one
> income, I very seriously doubt being able to attend
> NetWorld+Interop-Comdex so soon afterwards.   So, it looks like for this
> year I'll have to do my penguin evangelizing amongst the dragons. ;)

Bar-b-que penguin, anyone?

You really need a pin, T-shirt, or poster of an armored and
vambraced Tux doing battle with a dragon who bears a
suspicious resemblance to Mr. Gates.

-- 
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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