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03/08/2006 Archived Entry: "March East Side Weblog Meetup Report"

A complete set of meetup reports this time. Collect 'em all!

We had fun at last night's East Side Weblog Meetup! I stopped at the Party City store at the far end of the mall on the way in, to get more nametag stickers. Every time I'm there I have to ask where the nametags are, because they are always shifting their stock around. Grandson R---- was very tempted by the balloons, but I reminded him that we still have two big balloons floating in our living room, a "one" and a "five" left over from Potlatch 15. He took the disappointment well.

Jack (his report) arrived shortly before Tommy Williams (his report) and Alex Barnett (his report), so I showed him where the electrical outlet I usually plug into (because of bad battery on my laptop) had been removed. Should we move? No, we decided to just go with his laptop if we needed a sign-in list. Turned out we really didn't; all attendees were known to me. Dennis Hamilton of Orcmid turned up next (his report), and Ram arrived (his report) while I had taken R----- to go ride the small rides at the other end of the mall (merry-go-round, fancy car, and train).

Lots of geeky neep-neepery tonight, about new computer languages and old. We learned that Dennis got a job as an engineer's assistant at Boeing in the fifties because he had two semesters of calculus in high school, at a time when the space race was starting and such skills were rare. People hung out almost until nine -- a good night!

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