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Posted by CmdrTaco from the but-only-if-you're-in-san-jose dept.
So if you're in the Bay Area tonight, you definitely need to show up tonight at the Park Side Hall (across the street from the conference hall) at 7:30 (until 10) for the Slashdot/Freshmeat/Andover shindig. Free beer, and loud music (from San "Single White Female" Mehat), good times shall be had or your money back! You're all invited. It ought to be a rip roarin' good time. At least, after Guinness #3 ;)
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  • Maybe we should throw our own Iowa Linux party...
  • mmhh... I've just finished to build my server, so I'll take a few minutes to reply :-) (a miracle I got 2.0.37 with 3c59x 0.99E to talk to my 3C905B (L wouldn't work?!) 8-)

    Anyway, vodka!

    To start with, 50cl or 50g is only half the story. (In Russia, you don't drink less than 100g :)

    Then, I admit that flavoured vodka is much easier to drink-up, but that's why vodka must be chilled-up! Even crap vodka tastes good when it's chilled ;-) (like hristianskoya at 5000 rouble a bottle (1$ back in 95) ... and yellowish :)

    Then having vodka and beer is always a bad idea. In russia, they say something like if you drink vodka without beer, you throw your money in the wind. Don't listen! vodka+beer=guaranted hangover :-)

    But anything else you said, I have to agree... actually Absolut is good vodka.

    ---

  • It's not right in any sense, I don't believe. Non-alcoholic beer must have less than .5% alcohol content to be considered so. Guiness has ~4.3% and one of my favorite beers is Dragon Stout which has almost 7% alcohol content. check out this link [worrellbros.com] for a list.
  • Oh, let's have a geek party in Iowa! Gathering in Ames, anyone? We could play with my collection of old computers running obscure *nix OS's.
  • The party was great. Assorted beer [1], chips and salsa, veggies and ranch, and appropriately greasy pizza.

    I spoke with the VP of Publishing of andover.net [2] for about ten minutes about what I do [3], why I read slashdot and freshmeat daily, and why they're so much better than any other news sites. This interogation netted me a super-nifty slashdot hat, which I will cherish until the day I die, or until someone bids more than $100 for it on eBay. Actually, it was a wonderful and unexpected gift. Thank you!

    <biker rant>
    I also met a super cool biker chick, and you guys all suck for driving cars. She was the only other person there (that I saw) who rode.
    </biker rant>

    Oh yeah, I stole some slashdot cups as well. :D

    [1] I saw Guinness and Anchor Steam.
    [2] I don't recall his name right now.
    [3] Unix admin, mostly solaris, some linux, some bsd/os
  • feh.. where's my freebsdworld.... or maybe windowmaker world....

    now now.. let's not start a fight...
  • So if they took it on the road, they could call it the "Rob Slashdotted CmdrTaco over Andover on the road, and now he's nothing but Freshmeat on the highway" Tour.
    Sorry, it's been a long 10.5 hours. I need to go home.
  • Cool Gathering!!!! One thing though... For "Parties" like this... Linux needs to appeal, just a tad more, to the opposite sex!! :)
  • cause after midnight people start to puke all over place and things generally get rather ugly.
  • Guinness,

    It would be worth it just for the free beer.

    MMMMmmmm Beer.
  • That comment did nothing to improve my impression of you damned yanks.

    Three pints of Guiness is a quick lunchtime thirst-quencher, certainly nothing like enough to make me have a "rip roarin' good time" if I wasn't already.

    Sheesh, three pints of Goodness was my usual lunch during finals..

    Matthew.

  • Well that's really great then: Guiness.

    Now we'll have to find out about trains from Palo Alto. My geek-girl no longer want's to drive back! (or if she wanted to, I wouldn't let her, knowing how she responds to that good ole G.)

    I bet she'll drink Rob under the table. ;o)

    Look fwd to see y'all tonite!

    Breace.



  • A: Both are f*&@ing close to water.


  • Look at the dept. listing right under the topic. It says: from the but-only-if-you're-in-san-jose dept.

    And to think, I was just there last week on vacation, why oh why couldn't school start next week, so I could have gone to this. Crap : )
  • You just can't be a man till you drink. Bahahahah!

    Serouisly though (if I could spell it.) People like you confuse me? What is your pupose in posting this. If you want to have a drink go get one. If you don't drink for a reason then stop whining about it. Either way its your choice so you can't blame anyone else.

  • Why is guinness the best beer?

    Only beer you can chew.

    Spreads on toast.

    You can't make Guinness & Cider without it!

    (There's a better name for guinness & cider...anyone know what it is?)

  • mmmm...hard-up, soused geeks...and i completely forgot to go!
    *grumble*
    *ender*
  • Not for me. I prefer a polo shirt and a pair of semi-baggy cargo pants. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
  • see? i almost never drink anymore and i hit perfect pitch after a pint.
  • So will the menu consist of Tacos and Beer?

    I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
  • By "bay area" do you mean lake mac? or some bay thereabouts?
    Or did you leave Holland for California?

  • I'm in the Bay Area, but I dont know where you
    are talking about. Perhaps thats because I'm in
    the Morecambe Bay area. We're not all hoopy
    stateside SoCal froods you know!

    Anyway, Guinness over here tastes _soooo_ much
    nicer than over there!! Ha!

    Enjoy it!

    Baz
  • If I sent a self addressed and stamped box would you send me some beer? I really could use a Guiness right now. 119.5 seconds to the perfect pint.

    J
  • > I got all 70,000 shares I asked for. I am PUMPED! WooHoo!

    Lucky you. I just asked for 1,000
    But since I am sitting in far away Vienna, Austria I am afraid I won't get anything :-(

    I want a Green Card, I want an American social security number, I want to leave laid back Europe _whine_
  • huh huh?

    --Becky (who lives in the Bay Area, but already had plans for this evening)

  • Address? (Score:1)

    by Eli ( 16462 )
    Can someone post the address of the mall? I'd like to stop by, but need directions first. i like beer.
  • C'mon. Stop talkin' about y'all in Texas and come up to Seattle.

    If Tom Leykis can have such a good time here, so can /.

    :-)
  • Its always fun to laugh at the puking people that can't control their alcholic intake. If they don't know how to drink resposibly then they shouldn't be their. Usally I don't arive to a party tell close to midnight. Thats when stuff gets going.
  • Let's hold it in Mo. Valley!
  • Heretic! Burn him! Burn him!
  • Guiness and Cider is called a bumblebee. And is damn tasty on a hot summer day.
  • i'm in ny, ny.. and we have none of these things. that's the advantage of being in Cali.. its silicon valley over there.. while over here in ny.. it's just silicon alley.
  • Kevin, you are freakn' weird dude.
  • Take a trip to Texas dude, and you'll find 5 point Bud.
    I know, us OKies make a trip down to the border every other weekend to restock!!
  • Drink till you drop. Life's too short, eh?

    Its always funny till someone gets hurt. Then its just hilarious. --FNM
  • Bleh! Slashdot needs to throw a free-beer party in Texas!
    And don't even consider Houston, pick Dallas. Thats where everything in Texas is afterall, either that or fortworth (hey we got a great sundance square & a great place to throw a party like this with a bar called the flying saucer right by it.)
    Either that or rent out the Track, like Rockfest '97 & throw a SlashFest '99! Have free-beer, lots of bands, etc... But of course, charge money at the door or you'll go flat broke, us Texans love our beer! (Hey pitch in some Vodka while your at it!)
  • That would be true if the plan was to get bladdered. However, I drink because I like the taste or beer, because being slightly drunk is fun and, most of all, because it's a comfortable, social atmosphere in which to speak with people.

    Matthew
    - sometimes I drink to forget, though

  • gain weight? silly... gaining weight does not exist. I tried and failed numerous times.

  • beer (Score:1)

    by radja ( 58949 )
    next time get Grolsch :)
  • I never claimed to be able to count, much less read...
  • Well rather than get lost in the strings above I decided to post here.
    YES! Guinness most definately tastes better abroad (take that whichever way you like) Being an avid beer drinker/Irishman I could definately notice the difference quaffing a pint in Galway Ireland vs Galway NY,USA. In order for export, there does have to be an addition of preservatives, primarily since the shipping is usually sea-borne. (much like the Nouveau Beajolais in Nov. when the vineyards ship quantities via air and by boat. Air is just much more expensive)
    As far as the alcoholic % of beer in the US. They usually peter out around 4-4.5 % for commercial brands. I try to keep my homebrew around 5-6% to match my canadian favourites (Molson Canadian and Labatts 50) But I have tipped the scales once with a 10% batch of porter *mmmmmm*
    When I was going to school in UT, there was a law that you could only buy 3.2% beer from convenience /grocery stores, everything else had to be bought in either state run liquor stores, or on the Class 6 stores on Military bases (Thanks for the dependant ID Dad! saved me a LOT of money on beer :) )
    The highest alcohol content for a commercial "beer" Ive found is around 11% that is found in the Samual adams triple bock (not too sure about that one) but definately in EKU from europe.
    I believe that the % for Guinness in the states runs the gambit between 5-6% to keep in accordance with certain import and truth in advertising laws that are rampant in this country. Hence why you an also get the better Molson's and Labatts by heading "North" of the border.
    Just a quick heads up on the beer observations.
    Have fun at the party guys I wish I could be there.

  • For a variety of (legitimate) reasons, I got to work quite late today and cannot, in good conscience, attend the shindig, since I'd have to leave too early. (I had hoped to buttonhole one of the Slashdot guys.)

    My fondest greetings to all who attend.

    Schwab

  • Well, you really have to have the Eurpean version to truly appreciate it. To be shipped to America it has to have many extra preservatives added and a reduced amount of alchol.
    Why do Americans only drink thier beer cold?
    So they can tell it from piss.

    (btw I am an American, in America (USA to be exact) just cause I live here doesn't mean I have to like it)
  • Heck with Houston! Dallas is where it's at!!! We need a /. party in Dallas. ;P
  • How come you never thrown any parties in your hometown, where I live like 25 minutes away..

    BAH! ;)
  • DISCLAIMER: This is only a suggestion!

    The Greater Midwest Slashdot Festival
    Location: Chicago IL
    Why There: Probably less then 6 hours drive from most of the midwest
    Who: Everyone who wants to, especially those who cannot make it to the Bay for any of the shindigs so far
    Why This: Even us cowpushers enjoy fellow geeks company and beer
    Date: Aug 25 (In memory of the first official posting of Linux on the comp.os.minix newsgroup)

    Now I don't expect it to happen, nor can I organize such an event but imagine renting a small convention hall, getting some linux boxes networked for some LAN Quake matches, GOOD beer on draught and maybe some contests or something. D&D or Magic for the fantasy geeks, Star Wars trivial Pursuit, etc...

    If anyone is going to pull something like this out you could count on me being there, its only a 5 hour drive or so.

  • We want to see pictures!!
  • Aye, Aye, Captain! You've hit the nail upon the head!

    I'm all for patriotism, but not if it involves Coors, Bud, or Miller.

    Guinness for Strength!

  • Funny thing is that my wife's from Logan!

    We drove through Missouri Valley once, but I sneezed and missed it! ;D

    Of course, we live in Dead Moines, so it's not much better. Maybe we should hold it halfway--like in Casey or Adair. I'll bring the homebrew!
  • Labbatts brews it for Canada, right here in good Ole London Ontario, using water from the always clean and clear Lake Huron. I drive past the place daily, and it sure SMELLS like a pint o' guinness ... ICK!

    Fjord.
  • that humming in your ears makes it very hard to listen to mp3s that early though ... at least not without pissing off the neighbours.

    Fjord.
  • Thats all it takes for me. i'm 6'2, 240 pds, and i'm drunk in 1 stinkin pint, of Keiths (my beer of choice).

    I can go out and get myself drunk on 2 pints - total loss:
    I love being intolerant! It's SOO wonderous!

    Fjord.
  • If you ever move this party to Chicago, then you could count on me to donate a couple of kegs of my prize-winning beer. A programmer who makes his own beer (I gotta get out way more often.)
  • I believe the technical term for the "nice little spinner" at the bottom of the Guinness can is officially known as The Widget (check www.guinness.com)
  • the wierd thing is that all the irish (read:from Ireland) people here in boston that i know drink bud.

    Hrm... I haven't observed that. Of course, I don't tend to hang out in places where Bud is the preferred beer. I think the Druid out in Cambridge is my favorite place so far, but I've only been up here for a few months.

    I haven't been to Ireland yet, but when I was in Scotland last summer it was odd to see all the Bud adverts during World Cup. Most of the pubs I went into had Bud in bottles, but nothing on draft. The people I saw drinking it were usually women and only the occasional guy. I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to the guys in pubs, though. heh.

    --
    A host is a host from coast to coast...

  • yeah... when is the MidWest Party!?
    we like beer too.
  • Well, there's lots of names. Someone on IRC just told me it's called snakebite where they are (Canada, I believe), but in the UK, snakebite is lager and cider. Guinness and cider is a black velvet. (Properly, it's a poor man's black velvet, and I have a vague memory of being told that a real black velvet is Guinness and _champagne_ in equal measures - boggle!) A drink that I used to have a lot as a student (when you do this kind of thing...) was Guinness, cider and black. The black is a dash of blackcurrant cordial in the top. Yummy! The only drink that is harder to get back from the bar to the table in one piece without people coming up and asking to try it is a Green Monster (another name which has lots of varieties: cider, bitter and a measure of blue Bols. Yes, it's bright green.) And then there was the ever-popular game on the first night for new bar staff: asking for a Baileys and coke in a short glass. (It fizzes up and rises over the edge and then results in a thick crust on the top. A spoon helps.) Oh yes. One thing more. The cider in the UK is alcoholic. I gather this is not the case in the US as a rule. We are not talking apple juice here. We are talking a drink that's quite strong enough in its own right. :) Guinness, cider and black is well worth trying. I recommend it.
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  • This rings so true to me. I have long since ditched the days of going to the bars, and 50 dollars later being in the same state of mind that I was in when I first entered the bar. Actually I was in a better state of mind when I first entered the bar, because I was 50 dollars richer. Long live the people with no tolerence. If I could only be like that. But if you are going to have some beer. It does have to be Guiness. In large quantities might I add.
  • I'm there dude!
  • What % alcohol is Euro-Guinness, anyway?? For that matter, what's Amer-Guinness? I made a Guinness-style stout (minus the soured stuff they add to every batch, natch), but added molasses to it, and it's alcohol content was...well okay, I forget what it was. But it was GOOOO-oood stuff! =)

    I agree, by the by, that American beer has major problems. It is getting better though! We're finally recovering from prohibition. :P It's about time!!

    --
  • Actually, doesn't US Guiness have _more_
    alcohol so that it can qualify as a "stout"?

    Because as we all know, types of beer are really
    determined by alcohol content.
  • I say it's a pretty good idea, but if it is a Midwest get together, Chicago seems, well, kinda de-centralized from the midwest if you know what I mean.

    Kansas City, MO, perhaps?
  • The one from Piramid (brewed in Seattle and Berkeley)? ;)

    Breace
  • Hehe, sounds good, what are you doing for the eclipse? going down south? ;-)

    BTW, I go to Christie Hospital quite often for my project, so... that's already two persons for a (north-west) UK meet-up :-)

    ---

  • Stout, ale, lager, pilsner, etc. are essentially unrelated to alcohol content. It has to do with the brewing process. Stouts and ales are brewed at warmer temperatures (about room temperature or so), using ale yeast. Lagers and pilsners on the other hand, are brewed cold (around 40 degrees F) using a lager yeast, which is jsut a different kind of yeast that is active at a different temperature. These are generalizations, as steam ales are brewed with Lager yeast at ale temperatures, and of course there are other exceptions to the rule. Stouts tend to be more malty, in particular, they tend to include black patent and chocolate (named for the color, has nothing to do with chocolate) malts, which give them the dark color which people are used to. Guinness is unique inasmuchas every batch of Guinness is started with old, stale Guinness from a prior batch, kind of like sourdough bread. (No, don't ask where the first batch came from). It is also "carbonated" with a 75% CO2, 25% NO2 mixture, and poured through a microscreen in the tap head, which removes most of the larger, CO2 bubbles, and leaves only the tiny nitrous bubbles, leading to the popular cascade. Fact: ANY beer will cascade if poured using this gas mixture and process. Even Bud Light. We have tried it at our bar to prove someone wrong. I hope that was enlightening to SOMEONE, at least...
  • All that I can say is, for those who weren't there last night, you definitely missed something awesome when Richard Stallman started dancing. GNU/Dance was in full effect!

    Now, will his dance be released under the GPL?
  • Not exactly. Guinness ships a "concentrate" to the states, which is "reconstituted" by the local breweries, I believe with a lager. This accounts for a large part of the difference between British Isles Guinness and Imported Guinness. And I believe that the bottled Guinness Extra Stout is in fact shipped in the bottles (but I am not sure about that one).
  • thanks for the correction after enjoying one, I wasn't able to even read the bottle !!! thanks for the update
  • Hmmm...in my bar, Guinness and Cider is called a Rotten Apple, which is pretty appropriate, I think, considering the combination of the apple cider with the sour flavor of Guinness (only sour beer I have ever found...wish there were more). And while in common parlance, cider often means non-alcoholic cider, in any bar in the states, you will get hard cider (usually around 5.5-6.5%). We always call bass and Cider a snakebite, and have them on the same twin tower tap for even mixing. And yes, black velvet is Guinness and Champagne. Actually, it's pretty damn marvelous.

    Funny how the names are different everywhere you go...and how some people call Bass and Guinness "The original black and tan", even though black and tans (or half and halfs, as I understand the brits call them) are properly lager and stout, as in Harp and Guinness....
  • Yeah I've had it. Its not too too bad. Not my favorite either but when comparing alcohol content it wins over everything I've seen. I like the boston Ale and the summer ale mmmmm My girlfriend drinks Guiness yuck hehe
  • Yeah, definitely a good party and I managed to get a spiffy tshirt and some nifty-cool /. cups filled with all the Guiness I could drink (which is apparently quite a bit.. ohh my head..). Everyone who enjoyed themselves, be sure and thank Rob and Jeff and the /. crew any maybe they'll have another one soon.

    I talked to an account manager from Andover and discussed targeted advertising categories on /. (I requested that, no matter how much we fit the demographic, they should avoid ads for dating services and porn).
  • mmmhhh... I remember that night I had 3 pitchers of bud light... (the only glass thing I could drink in :-)

    Woke-up with a splitting headache and stayed in bed the whole following day.... much much worse than that night I was drinking thatcher's cider and Smirnov red... whatever the color, stay away from that crap, if you want to drink proper vodka, have Stolichnoya or Moskovkoya... chilled :-)

    ...Forget cider too ;-)

    ---

  • ... and in the wheeler-dealer spirit of Salt Lake City and the Olympics, what do we need to do to get it moved to Tallahassee, FL? We're a Paaarty town and we really want the party here...

    Now, what do we have to get a commitment today?
  • Oh but what an alley it is. We really DO need some kinda /. party here, i mean come on, New York is a major metropolis, we have geeks. We must be able to get some kinda party going. hey, Maybe rob + company should take thier party on the road, that'd be great, hit all the major cities just having one big geek partyfest.
  • Freshmeat founder Patrick
    "scoop" Lenz, Slashdot founders Rob
    "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos"
    Bates and Andover.Net founder Bruce
    Twickler will be at the Andover.Net
    keynote party, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 7:30
    pm, at the Parkside Hall across the street
    from the San Jose Convention Center.
    Please call Manya Rossignoli or Chris
    Stamm at (781) 684-0770 to schedule an
    interview.
  • Remember, it's all fun and games until someone loses and eyeball.

    Then it's just games, like "Find the eyeball" ;)
  • American beer tends to be around 3% alcohol, while European beers tend to be around 5% or 6% alcohol. I'm not sure about the alcohol content of Guiness in particular though.
  • I have it on pretty good authority (a friend who works at the St. James Gate Guinness Brewery) that Guinness isn't shipped to the US at all -- Budweiser brews it in the states. Reciprocally, Guinness brews Budweiser in Ireland...

  • Hey, another non-Merkin slashdotter. And Liverpool's not that far from me in Manchester. Maybe we should have a NW England /. meetup, or summat? What's that about the party should liven up after the 3rd Guinness, anyway? What kind of lightweights are these Americans? Heh, 3 pints is just a quiet social night down the pub, guys: the party really gets going after the 3rd double whiskey, which comes after the four pints of [insert decent real ale here]. And a curry or a kebab or something, too... :)
  • By Microsoft to make sure all the linux geeks are too hung over to hit up E-Trade when RH goes public tomorrow AM so they can snatch up a majority share.
  • How much guiness do you guys have? If i can get a find the right flight out, i might be able to save money on my bar tab tonight by coming out from chicago :)
  • 4.1% in Canada.
  • We don't even get MacWorld anymore, just Seybold.

    Feh!

    Northeast's too conservative for me... think I want to move west coast where everyone's younger and not so inbred. Too many guilt-inflicting finger-pointing Puritans here..

    Sigh. My company's migrating from Sendmail to Exchange. The server's been acting up, no wonder with all the 30 meg files being emailed on the old 200 MHz FreeBSD UNIX box. The new outsourced IT guys who scorn "shareware operating systems" can't wait to install Exchange on *different* hardware and reflect on the old days (where we could just Telnet in from offsite to get the friggin email):-/
  • It's about 5% alcohol - the same as Budweiser. Belgian beer's the strong stuff, if you can stomach it. I tend to be more of a liquor person myself, but I can appreciate a good beer.

    - A.P. (nobody should appreciate Budweiser)
    --


    "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad

  • I feel sorry for any females that decide to show up. They'll be in a roomfull of lonly nerds.
  • We're not all hoopy stateside SoCal froods you know!

    Of course he is refering to the San Francisco Bay Area, which as most people (should) know is in northern california.

    I will be there, no way I could turn down free guinness....

    ---
  • The party will suffer due to the Slashdot effect! Imagine a million geeks crammed into a small area.
  • To bad you guys aren't located near Pennsylvania.....we need some friggin' excitement out here. I think the highlight of my day today was compiling 2.2.11! W00p!
  • Damn! I sure wish I had the little coins to get there. Anyway, drink away and howl at the moon! (works for me)
  • 'Cause a Slashdot party don't stop!

    I came home after midnight to get online and gab about the party, but my ISP was down. :( Oh well, I stayed up and built some SRPMs for some Python and Emacs modules I care about. Makin' the world a better place, after lots of beer and a party w/ 500 of my "closest" friends. Not a bad night...
  • Dontcha just feel sorry for the poor AC who valiantly tried to get a first post...and didn't :)

    I became a Linux convert the day that NT crashed five times on me.
  • American beer is 3.5%-5% ABV (alcohol content by volume). In some states they make 3.2% beer, used to be sold to 18-21 year olds until the federal government forced a nationwide 21 year old drinking age. (Why don't 18-21 year olds start voting, and get this changed?).

    Guinness in the US is around 3.5% ABV. Not as strong as Budweiser at ~4.0%, but a much tastier product.

    The sloshdot party was fun. I enjoyed roughly equal portions of Anchor Steam and Guinness. Can't say I particularly enjoyed the music, I had thought there was going to be a live band. Still, all in all it was a good time.
  • Wild. I met a guy from Britain who played in a band (holds the attendance record at Madison Square Garden) and he ordered a double-whiskey at the bar. I thought it was a fluke.

    He splained me the curries and recommended Boddingtons.
  • Irish drink Budweiser (the American kind?)
    I would understand them drinking the czek kind (czek has bottled a beer called budweiser (spell differently though don't rememebr spelling) for longer than the american budweiser has existed, we stole the name for some reason)).
  • >American beer tends to be around 3% alcohol

    That can't be right, can it? I thought I remembered that "near-beer" that we used to be able to buy if we were 18 was 2 1/2%. Seems like I remember that beer and wine were ~6% and spirits were at least 10%

    There's gotta be somewhere on the web to look, but I'm too lazy, and there isn't any beer in my fridge at the moment. :-(
  • Shindig? You guys aren't even going to be bold enough to declare it a full-fledged hootenanny?! C'mon, have confidence!!

    darius
    "my ma always told me too much book-learnin'll make you stupid."
  • Taco is on the menu for the female slashdotters only....

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