Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Party Grand Prize Winner 102
From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania...
from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had
well over 100s of parties and over 2,300 registered attendees
scattered around the world. Many of them got boxes of t-shirts and
ThinkGeek gift certificates (and some of them even got them on time). We've seen cakes with legos and logos, we seen nerf gun fights, and even a lawn sporking.
I've put a tiny sampling of my favorite pictures online. The grand prize winner is of
the $1k store credit at ThinkGeek is Lindsi from Minneapolis. Their party featured a lolcats cake, a taco bar and a dude in a helmet smashing computers with a sledge hammer in a raining parking lot. They earned it. We had a great time in both Palo Alto and Ann Arbor- I hope you guys had fun wherever you gathered. See you again in 2017!
Congratulations Lindsi! (Score:3, Interesting)
In short, what's on your THinkGeek wishlist (or shopping cart, if you hadn't made a wish list). Just curious what a
Re:Ugh, lolcats?? (Score:3, Interesting)
Some guy buys a $3000 lens for his $3000 DSLR, shoots a photo of his cat, then posts a modified JPG version so everyone can validate his pointless consumerism. "Here I am shooting cat photos in my living room with $10,000 in camera gear. Please tell me how excellent my purchasing acumen is."
No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... (Score:5, Interesting)
Parties in France (Score:3, Interesting)
Lyon party photos [flickr.com] from Zopeuse [slashdot.org] and more [flickr.com] from the pterjan [slashdot.org], and the Logiciel Libre crowd.
In Paris we attempted all the typical "geek" or "nerd" activities; drank Guinness, played wii games, ate a good meal, compared our DSLR cameras, had a DSW over who had been using computers the longest, and finally took some photos [flickr.com]. Those are just mine, either I'll grab the other people's photos and add them, or let them post a link in a followup posting.
the AC
Re:No way, the winner should be Skiboricus... (Score:4, Interesting)
I think we had the third biggest turnout in the state and we still haven't gotten any swag. Good burgers and good people though.
Not even some Slashdot stickers!
Re:Hey.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Since I just screwed up the links to their site, I'll post to the Linux Chix in France [linuxchixfrance.org] site here, since replying to correct my own post would be bad netiquette.
the AC
Re:Thanks & that barmaid with the slash book (Score:3, Interesting)