What I learned at YAPC::NA::2006

hide on 2006-06-30T14:15:17

• Do *NOT* fly United Airlines, American is better
• Riding in a Jeep without a roof is amazing
• Once a day, I will spill food on myself
• Hack-A-Thons can be social events and vice versa
• Job recruiters advertise by leaving business cards on urnals
• A $9 buffet is $30 in Chicago
• Perl conferences include JavaScript talks
• Dorms with prison style showers are nicer than prison style dorms
• Limit writing to 300 words
• Open my CPAN module svn repository
• Do not play ping pong against a tall guy
• I can now write my Perl in Canadian eh?
• Silent auctions are fun, but a better way of calling out the winners is required
• Returning Larry nets a lot of money
• We need to bring focus to the end user applications created with Perl
• Downtown Chicago is beautiful
• Economy class has no room to open a laptop
• Do *NOT* fly United Airlines
• Getting together with friends and people you "know" to discuss what you all love is amazing.

Hats off to the Chicago YAPC team. Thanks for a great time.

Out of curiosity...

cog on 2006-06-30T15:13:11

Re:Out of curiosity...

hide on 2006-06-30T15:26:54

In passing yes. I was working on the slides with Michael Graham for the abduction of Larry.

We also met last year at YAPC::NA::2005. I was taking a picture of you, while you were taking a picture of me, while on the boat cruise.

I'm generally pretty quiet with people I first meet, and am not great at introducing myself. Which leaves me knowing people I meet, but very few people knowing me :-)

Re:Out of curiosity...

cog on 2006-07-01T01:55:04

Is there a picture of you somewhere? :-)

Re:Out of curiosity...

hide on 2006-07-01T02:25:28

I found this one (blue and red shirt) tonight going through the yapcna2006 flickr tag