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Article #188Who was who at AUUG 92
From: Andrew McRae
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 15:35
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 15:35
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A light hearted look at who was who at AUUG 92.
Any offence given is unintended (whoops, who said that).
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Jaap Akkerhaus: I have never ever met any other Dutchman with such an
appetite for beer (esp. when we introduced him to coopers..)
Ian Hoyle: Don't give up your day job for dancing (I enjoyed the pasta though).
Michael Paddon: Did a great job convincing a SGI salesman to buy us several
rounds of drinks, especially considering what time it was.
Greg Bond: I wish I could type as well as Greg tinkles the ivories - you
have missed your calling.
Greg Rose: Never give that boy a *big* laser to play with.
Bruce Nelson: It's great to meet a yank who knows and enjoys good wine, and
can then get up next day and talk as well as he did.
Liz Fraumann: You can relax now, it's all over (until the rush for AUUG 93
starts next week).
John O'Brien: Never talk to John about collecting garbage. Or voting.
John Lions: Gave a talk that raised more questions than it answered, which
everybody in the audience then tried to answer.
Keith Bostic: I told keith he is starting to sound like Richard Stallman when
he talks about free s/w. We agreed that we didn't know
whether it was a good or bad thing.
Bill Coleman: The best speaker I have never heard. I just wish that I could
have been there so that I could have wished to be somewhere else.
Glenn Huxtable: How can you sound rational at 2 AM with a balloon tied to
your back?
Roel Pieper: The pied piper of USL. Now who are the rats again?
Craig Bishop: Data, data and more bl***y data. Bu***r the data, as long as
the cats win.
Phil McCrea: How come I can never spell your name right?
Michael Podhorodecki: Next time, let's skip trying to design a multi-screened
X terminal on the back of a serviette.
Peter Chubb: I'd know that beard anywhere. Why do kernel hackers have beards?
Tim Roper: What time zone are you in today, Tim?
Robert Elz: Touch my balloon, and you're .history
Peter Wishart: Turning over new leafs, trying to make chapters... If it all
comes together we could write a book about it. (I *know*
Sydney's a problem, but there are only so many hours in the day).
Faceless/nameless MD of Pyramid: You expect us to keep *quiet*?? Whose dinner
is this anyway? And where are the wine glasses?
Corrine Moore: A K-Mart operator is a single unit of calibrated user.
Peter Elford: Network Management from a Network Manager.
Ken Day: Laconic cop manages not to tell us how they catch the hackers, but
tells us to tell him when we find one. Answers to questions were all
the more amusing for what they didn't tell us.
Scott Merrilees: Fallen out of any planes lately? Getting DZ on the way down?
Chris Maltby: Don't mention those synch NFS writes again, or I'll emacs you...
Paul Mullenmeister: Ibuild, Ubuild, ve all vill build...
Jonathan Waldern: How to give a virtual presentation with a virtual speaker.
Unfortunately the audience was real.
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If I have missed anybody, then there's always next year.
Andrew McRae (andrew@megadata.mega.oz.au)
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