From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 21:14:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24225 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24220 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:14:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA09731; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:13:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 21:13:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMDEX trip report.. In-Reply-To: <14781.849325272@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Since we couldn't even *see* the Linux booth staffers during > the show, I'm afraid that all those rubber bands went to waste, though > I did manage to bean one of them with a ballistically-thrown FreeBSD > T-shirt. :-) All those Rockwell Frizbee's floating around, and you never tried to clip someone with them? Admittedly, the roof wasn't high enough for something really spectacular, but by their sheer abundance I'd expect to have seen a few flying at COMDEX. > I could also list the show's being in Las Vegas as a major strike > against it, that city now being the adult version of Disneyland Whereas the locals complain that the regular non-sex shows get shut down during COMDEX, because COMDEX attendees tend not to go to anything else. Suffice to say that neither side has a very uncolored view of the other :-)