On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote:
> There was a shindig today. It was attended by a community of misfits and > elderly geeks, some pushing the wrong side of 35, obviously well past > their "use by" date. there was a gathering today. It was attended by a group of over 100 unrelated inDUHviduals of all ages (14-45 would be my guess). > It was opened by a weirdly coiffure'd person speaking about Elvis, of > all things. Elvis, obviously, has significant timing problems, since his > frequency has been administratively increased from 100 appearances per > alien abductee to 1024. Which is, nevertheless, progress. it was opened by gilad ben yosef (the next generation) who found some obscure excuse to involve Elvis with embedded linux systems - in an attempt to persuade his listeners that embedded linux is gapping the strangled desktop PC business from every direction - in an increasing rate. according to the applause in the end - everybody agreed with that claim. > Then a person with a very variegated taste in shirts spoke to the > assembled about parasitic insects' victims which send each other letters. > Thus, Host A send Host B something (and, sometimes, vice versa) which > Host C, for some ineffable reason, wants to hijack. While highly > unlikely, since rarely do hosts hijackanything, unless they are > hostesses, of course, in which case they are likely to catch something > and not hijack, barring Muslim gentlemen with rudimentary flight > training, in which case they are hijacked and do no hijack themselves > which, basically, means tha.... Never mind. then aviram jenik took over, and tried showing people how insecure their secure connections realy are - this attracted quite a few questions from the crowd, ranging from "i know the server is protected by a firewall, and i connect from my remote PC - is there software to protect my PC from being broken into (the answer, surprisingly, was "use a firewall on the PC"), to "i telnet to a machine. is it realy that insecure?". some questions were more advanced - and there were quite a few of those. > There were no loo breaks so all suffered distended bladders. due to hickups in the organization, time flew by (time goes faster, when you move slow ;) ), so the proper solution was chosen - skip the break! a short protest, and some recalculation, suddenly brought a 10-minute break into existance. the 2nd break was shortened to 10 minutes (from the originally planned 20), and thus bad infections were prevented. > Then came a film in which a whole collection of aging communist hippies > lashed out at Microsoft, denigrating the glorious company's contribution > to world culture, technology and, incidentally, to quite a few > Congressmen and Senators. These representatives of the drug taking, > stuttering, unwashing, oversexed, under-stratified and otherwise anti- > American elements lauded a damned foreigner's method of playing > Solitaire! The attack on our culture is intensifying, mein komaraden! then came a film, in which about 70-80% of the time there were 'talking heads'. Some heads looked quite familiar, such as the linux head, the RMS head, the clown head... > After the film ended, there was a signing of some form of Satanic > contracts in the cafeteria and finally a drunken binge! after the film ended, a bunch of the said group of inDUHviduals took over the cinematheque's cafeteria, in order to hold a PGP signing ritual. after that, people started spreading around, many went home, and many took over a near-by restaurant, fighting with the waiters in order to connect tables in a large 'L' shape - well, this _is_ a Linux users group... > I, of course, can say nothing of the stubby monkey whichclimbed the > stage and, instead of singing the Anthem, declaimed something in an > unhuman language, waves his arms a bit and climbed off. Who the fuck was > he? ah - but i can. one of the attending inDUHviduals was asked, 15 minutes before the event begun, to carry the opening 5-minutes keynote speech. To this challenge he responded by speaking in a language no one(*) understood - and which sounded like a mix between german and latin. That inDUHvidual looked suspiciously similar to the former reporter. > Your Reporter this last phrase is in english... -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
