best way to describe the ALT party would be "interesting" :)
1 month ago.
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seen a working NExT station, some Vaxes, loads of old consoles, oh and a man dressed in a shiney pvc borg costume (or at least i hope it is a borg costume!)
kind of encouraging that it is not 100% male audience.
not feeling so bad about getting he free ticket, as @cybette can use it to "get her geek on" (the information that there was a real cray at the event is what swung it)
due to the exta hour in bed, made it to the intro to italian session. Also saw someone using the cray to browse facebook (which proves how sucky their javascript is!)
so sorry that i didn't actually make use of the free ticket. Surya and i were pretty much useless for the first half of today, waking up past noon and finishing lunch past 2pm :P Thanks again though and hope to make it up to you sometime!
The Sunday part was actually really kind of quiet, and some people had already packed up and gone home. The main "stucture" of stuff was still there (Cray, YLE old tech, art installation etc), but the hoardes of geeks huddled over screens had mostly left.
I stayed for the competiton results (no surprise the guy in the thigh length stiletto boots dresed as a borg won), and apparently the competions went until 2am!
Would have been cool to see the worlds first supercomputer demo competion (one of which actually used all 56 cores!), but now i know for next year.
7 comments so far
seen a working NExT station, some Vaxes, loads of old consoles, oh and a man dressed in a shiney pvc borg costume (or at least i hope it is a borg costume!)
kind of encouraging that it is not 100% male audience.
1 month ago by ymb
not feeling so bad about getting he free ticket, as @cybette can use it to "get her geek on" (the information that there was a real cray at the event is what swung it)
1 month ago by ymb
due to the exta hour in bed, made it to the intro to italian session. Also saw someone using the cray to browse facebook (which proves how sucky their javascript is!)
1 month ago by ymb
so sorry that i didn't actually make use of the free ticket. Surya and i were pretty much useless for the first half of today, waking up past noon and finishing lunch past 2pm :P Thanks again though and hope to make it up to you sometime!
1 month ago by cybette
pfft, the ticket was free, so no worries.
The Sunday part was actually really kind of quiet, and some people had already packed up and gone home. The main "stucture" of stuff was still there (Cray, YLE old tech, art installation etc), but the hoardes of geeks huddled over screens had mostly left.
I stayed for the competiton results (no surprise the guy in the thigh length stiletto boots dresed as a borg won), and apparently the competions went until 2am!
Would have been cool to see the worlds first supercomputer demo competion (one of which actually used all 56 cores!), but now i know for next year.
1 month ago by ymb
via @setok here is a picture of the borg guy.
loads of pics here
1 month ago by ymb
wow, awesome costume indeed. thanks for the links!
if halloween was more popular here i'd consider doing that!
1 month ago by cybette