geekin it up in steinbeck town

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So, I'm almost done with USENIX 2002 here in lovely Monterey. Tonight was the dessert reception at the aquarium (yes you read right). At one point I was eating an eclair while one hirsute hacker near me disputed with another about the relative virtues of assembly programming on the VAX versus M68K as a large grouper and two small rockfish looked over their shoulders and moved their fishy mouths as if to disagree with both of them.

I took some pictures mostly of fish and one of some famous hackers, which are famous if you're a geek like me.

Tomorrow, after a couple of last sessions, it's off to San Francisco for a WEEK of UNINHIBITED HEDONISM. Woo-hoo!

Comments

[effluvia.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to that aquarium since I was a child.

Absolutely gorgeous pictures! My favorites are the jellies 1 & 2.

I don't mean any disrespect, but it seems like the main hackor in the linuxgods picture is demanding--and receiving--a blow job from a lesser hackor while a co-main-hackor is looking on. Could this be the seedy underbelly of so-called 'nerd-dom?' If so, please sign me up.

[turnip.livejournal.com]

those jellyfish pictures are fuckin VIVID!

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

I keep misreading USENIX as 'UNISEX' and wondering what's so exciting about that....

Nice jellyfeesh!