Last Chance to Sign Up for 10-Year Anniversary Party 124
We have 700 T-Shirts coming in today and now we need to know where to ship them. So while you can continue to sign up for parties, today is the last day we'll be looking at the sign-ups to determine where to send shirts.
You can sign up or host your own party and we'll try to mail lots of you schwag and ThinkGeek gift certificates. A note to people signed on for my party in Ann Arbor- we will be at Leopold Bros Oct 20. Pudge has a large party coming together near Seattle, Zonk has 30+ in Madison, and of course there's a big party in Palo Alto Oct 25 that Hemos & I will both be at as well. A reminder to all party planners- make SURE your email address is accurate so we can spam you guys and get snail mail addresses. Remember to take pictures/videos/etc at your local gatherings and submit them to us (we'll have an email address later). Whoever impresses us the most with their creativity in submission will win $1k ThinkGeek prize.
Palo Alto (Score:1)
I for one look forward to meeting my 'Foobar' sig-correcting overlords.
For anyone who feels compelled to point out the "misspelling" please read my journal entry (the one before the Whine Country Safari entry.)
Fakes? (Score:4, Interesting)
Have to admit it came to my mind "hey free swag!", and so I'm sure others will take the bait and do exactly that even if I won't.
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It's a cool idea - but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of traction.
Re:Fakes? (Score:4, Funny)
There went your nerd cred.
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There went your nerd cred.
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Or maybe it is a good humored jab and I should be laughing along. Just not enough to go on. But I'll go the laugh along route because I like to assume the best rather than the worst from people.
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I guess I could look for another theme and picture - might not be a bad idea anyway. But it will still be a wordpress theme and wont look like a site that somebody put a lot of time and
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*ducks
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He'll post your name and email address in a special follow-up article on Geek-Imitators.
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What's next? Photoshopping (or, excuse me, GIMPing) some fake party pictures from a Mardi Gras website to try and win $1000 to ThinkGeek? Sheesh.
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The 'host' has not ever posted so much as one comment to slashdot. His "party" is in some office suite from 10 AM to 11 AM.
What a guy. Taco actually is trying to do something cool, and guys like this try to take advantage of it.
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Taco is faking a party to get the free swag.
Anyone know where the real Ann Arbor party will be?
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So... he can go 700 days without washing a shirt? Brilliant! No wonder Kath fell for him with a brain like that!
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Do two people count as a party ? (Me and my computer ?)
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They don't. They DO come out when bribed with the potential of a gift cert that'll buy more blinky lights.
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Shameless Plug: 24 attendees, Halo 3, DJ, Guitar Hero, real girls [slashdot.org] all in a sweet, happenin, grungy bar with decent beer. [blackdog.ca]
CALLING ALL CAPITAL REGION SLASHDOT UID HOLDERS: WE NEED 6 MORE AND THEY WILL CLOSE THE BAR DOWNSTAIRS FOR US, SIGN UP NOW!!
yes, I really was shouting that time.
Slashdot PT Cruiser (Score:2, Interesting)
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you get peanuts for making your life and car a billboard.
I looked into it a year ago as a guy here at work did it, and I saw ebay, slashdot even digg in the lo
Re:Slashdot PT Cruiser (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, I know this is off topic, but I figure this is the best place to ask. A few weeks ago I was shopping for food in the East Bay (SF Bay Area) and when I walked out of the store there was a teal PT Cruiser with Slashdot logos on it. I needed to get home but I was curious if that was someone that worked for /. or just a really hard core fan.
That was probably the latest ploy in geek recruiting. If you stepped too close the doors would have swung open, you'd have been dragged inside, driven to a secret location, dragged out and into an office building, placed at a work station, given an $80,000/yr job working with software or engineering and all the women around you for the rest of your life would give you dismissive looks.
Good thing you ran away!
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I found a picture [flickr.com].
Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Locations (Score:5, Informative)
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Waco [slashdot.org]
Dallas [slashdot.org]
Probably Austin too [slashdot.org]
Oh, come on -- how many of you don't want to see me in person so you can beat the crap out of me?
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Re:Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Location (Score:1, Flamebait)
Will someone go and punch kdawson in the face at the "41-71, MA" party?
-b
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Re:Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Location (Score:1, Funny)
I just don't understand.
All those links and none to a goatse or tubgirl site.
What is the world coming to?
Re:Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Location (Score:2)
Do NOT wear all black (Score:2)
But I have to wear all black (Score:1)
When else will I get to show off my 50th Anniversery of Medical Genetics t-shirt I got?
Northen England? (Score:1)
- More - (Score:3, Insightful)
It's the one I wish I could go to
Re:Links For Notable Attendee Celebration Location (Score:1)
That is all.
timothy
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Surprised there's not one going on in West Philly -- but this makes it an easier bike for me, so I'm not complaining
Cheers,
timothy
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So I guess it will be someplace else!
timothy
Re:Thanks Slashdot, community (real people) rocks! (Score:4, Funny)
Don't forget to check all your base at the door.
Slashdot prank (Score:2)
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Sure we do. Feed the kids an obscure technical nugget and they're happy to get you your coffee and slippers...
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What about Paris? (Score:1)
Which Paris? (Score:2, Informative)
Paris, Idaho
Paris, Illinois
New Paris, Indiana
Paris, Kentucky
Paris, Maine
Paris, Michigan
Paris, Missouri
Paris, New York
Paris, Ohio
Paris, Pennsylvania
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, Texas
Paris, Wisconsin
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Yukon
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tag: slashdotcruiser (Score:1)
So no party at turkey eh ? (Score:2)
Re:So no party at turkey eh ? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but look at it this way, you're still around -- what of the poor Soviet Russians? There's no Party to join THEM!
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In Soviet Russia, the party signs you up!
What about girls? (Score:2, Insightful)
How about a Geo Cache? (Score:1)
I think I'm going to secretly plant a Slashdot 10th Anniversary Geocache in Palo Alto so it's published just before the party. Knowing slashdotters I won't even have to suggest they bring a GPSr.
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see how many girls you can get to come to ur party:
1-5: come on guys, your mothers dont count..
6-10: nice try, aunts, neighbours and horses don't either
10-30: getting there,
31-50: thats more like it...
51-100 there must be something wrong with your geek cred, get on slashdot, NOW, and it might go back to normal
101+ ''now guys, what have I told you about giving the tabloids fake rumours about massive sales starting at the x_store, y_road, z_street, as a means to
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Yeah, that's one. I can't think of a single girl I know that I could persuade to go to the party. At least not anyone my girlfriend will allow me to invite
Party in Valencia (Score:1)
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Is there people from Valencia (Spain)?
For future reference, if you have to tell people which country a city is in, the odds are that they are not anywhere near it.
That said, I'm disappointed that there is no party in Swansea. We usually get a few dozen geeks on the beach for the university computer society beach party each summer, so getting a dozen in a pub to celebrate Slashdot incrementing its age counter shouldn't be that hard.
Maybe we could even bury FireFury [slashdot.org] in a 6' hole again...
Oh, we're having a real party alright (Score:2)
But then you'd spam me, and then I'd have to ... (Score:1)
But then you'd spam me (as you so politely warned), and then I'd have to kill you. Or call my cousin Vinney in Joisey
T-shirt, huh? Hmmmm
Going about it wrong (Score:2, Interesting)
Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party with free punch and pie!
(After I noticed one party in England is offering free food)
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Party #1: In my pants.
Party #2: Party canceled. Go to Party #1
IN Soviet Russia (Score:2, Funny)
Because in Soviet Russia, Slashdot Celebrates You!
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in Putins's russia you party about slashdot
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Need more notice next time. (Score:2)
The twenty year party should have flying car accessibility and everyone should bring their gPhones and
slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=55
Throw a Slashdot party? Who's paying for it? (Score:2)
Why didn't you guys just have a
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Does leave those of us outside North America out in the cold...
That being said... just in case this is an idea that finds it's way into reality... may I be the first to nominate:
**Top Member => Twitter!**
I'll leave choosing the definition up to the esteemed members of the judging panel... over to the rest of y'all!
slashvertisement (Score:1)
Er... guys... (Score:1)
Seriously though... it will be great to see whether all you folks I've come to consider to be an extended, albeit highly dysfunctional, family are really the freaks I imagine you all to be, or whether I'm the only one?
I'd hate to have my illusions dashed by finding out I'm the only one on this site who isn't "normal"... One of the things that most attracted me
Sign Up, Anonymous Cowards! (Score:1)
Post a big sign, name the time and place and let the Anonymous Cowards in!
What's that? No, not the same time and place as the rest of us...
What's to celebrate? (Score:2, Insightful)
Probably a RTFA question, but... (Score:1)
Or is it just signing up for the AA or other large party = receiving a T-shirt if you're early and lucky?
Can we Still get T-shirts (Score:1)
Slashdot Party Badge? (Score:1)
The slashdot aniversary party in San Francisco is considering several public venues for the party. One topic of discussion was the fact that many slashdotters might not be able to recognize each other.
Perhaps there should be a slashdot party badge sized to fit a standard badge holder. Slashdotters could navigate to a page that would print out a recognizable Icon as well as their handle and perhaps other statistics (join date, first post date, number of posts, Karma points, etc.).
Those people unable to join
Amsterdam? (Score:1)
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No, but it helps if you want to talk to girls.
Of course, this is a /. party so you won't have to worry about that.
Just take it easy on the Red Bull jello-shots.
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