Comments | julieclipse: There is always HOPE ...

julieclipse

There is always HOPE ...

Jul 19, 2004 15:42

A week ago last Wednesday, Pseudomammal and I got all spontaneous, and decided to drive to New York the next day.

The funny thing is, it worked. We got up Thursday morning and walked to a certain car rental agency. After a great deal of needless bureaucracy and a monumental favor from a certain Pairodox, we had temporarily in our possession a powder blue ( Read more... )

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turq July 19 2004, 19:58:38 UTC

Ye gods, do I hate you. ;P
If I hadn't blown all my vacation having my internal organs rearranged, I was going to go to HOPE.
Ahwell, there's always next year. :D

julieclipse July 20 2004, 03:57:22 UTC

Actually, the conference is every two years.
(At least it's 10 months off from the marine mammal conference, which is also every two years. And CO3 is every year.)

turq July 20 2004, 04:19:30 UTC

Oh yeah. Duh. It is every two years. And I still hate you. ;)

- Turq.

turq July 19 2004, 20:38:11 UTC

Slashdot readers/posters make fun of 2600, and 2600 readers/posters make fun of slashdot, and while it's easy to make fun of both ~publications, I think they have more in common than not.

I suggest reading Blacklisted: 411, and making fun of both. ;)

- Turq.

vruba July 19 2004, 21:33:12 UTC

But Julieclipse, you are the star of your own feel-good 80s flick!

turq July 19 2004, 23:24:02 UTC

Vruba has a very good point.

- Turq.

julieclipse July 20 2004, 03:50:26 UTC

I approve.

polyergic July 19 2004, 23:27:21 UTC

What?! you drove through Georgia and didn't stop and see me?

Seriously, I could use some assurance that good people really exist other than as letters on my screen.

That sounds like an awesome trip.

julieclipse July 20 2004, 03:54:21 UTC

Aww. I have a "full time job" that I had to take off from to go (yes, Dr. Baskin gave me official permission off at the last minute ... I actually called her house at night to ask for it ... I was totally responsibly irresponsible), but we were still pressed for time. What with the ~25 hours of driving each way, wanting to make it to the conference, the rental car agency wanting their car back ... we couldn't have done justice to a visit with you.

polyergic July 20 2004, 23:51:39 UTC

Yeah, I know. And even if you could have, my schedule would probably have interfered. Oh well; one of these years I'll make it to Quo Vadis, or at least out visiting.

aredridel July 20 2004, 04:35:26 UTC

I think Slashdot and 2600 need equal making fun of.

But then I'm the sort who just likes toying with fun code...

aredridel July 20 2004, 04:35:34 UTC

... and phones.