1 Jan
2015
1 Jan
'15
3:30 p.m.
Love it. IIRC that was the conference a number of us with BSD daemon
t-shirts were accosted for the wearing them.
A story I like to tell was in the early 1980s at the Toronto USENIX. This
was just as when the US was going through AIDS reaction similar to the
current ebola over-worries. I was wearing a "Sex, Drugs & UNIX" button
when I got on the hotel elevator with Mike Krueger when your basic midwest
family of 4 or 5 got on at the same time. The mother sees my button and
asks, what's "UNIX." Krueger looks at her and replies: "It's
like AIDS --
only worse."
She immediately takes her kids and cowers in the corner while I'm
alternating being wanting to kick Krueger and laughing.
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
A prosperous New Years to all us old UNIX farts.
Years ago the USENIX conference was in Atlanta. It was a stark contrast
between us and the Southern Baptists who were in town for their conference
as well (punctuated at some goofball Baptist standing up in the middle of
one of the restaurants to sing God Bless America or some such).
Anyhow, right before the conference someone (I think it was Dennis) made
some comment about nobody ever having asked him for a cast of his
genitals. A couple of friends decided we needed to issue genital casting
kits to certain of the UNIX notables. I went out to an art supply store
and bought plaster, paper cups, popsicle sticks to mix with, etc… Gould
computers let me use one of their booth machines and a printer to print out
the instructions. I purloined some bags from the hotel. It was pointed
out that you need vaseline in order for the plaster to not stick to the
skin. Great, I head into the hotel gift shop and grab ten tiny jars of
vaseline. As I plop these on the counter at the cashier, she looks at me
for a minute and then announces…
I guess y’all aren’t with the baptists.
People took it pretty tongue in cheek when they were presented. All
except Redman who flew off the handle.
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