Thursday was something of a goof-off and socialize day. Saw Nick Clark's "When perl isn't fast enough" talk, as well as the lightning talk session, a session on code obfuscation (which later brought the first perl 6 obfuscated code segment) and Jos' "Poe for beginners" talk. The poe stuff was OK, I expect, but his tales of misspent youth were more amusing.
We caught the last bits of Damian's Perl 6 Prospective talk, at the regex part. It always runs long, and of course he doesn't miss the opportunity to pass on the hard bits to me. That's OK, it's more or less in fun.
Dinner was the p5p get together, at a restaurant who's name I can't remember. (Though it's in the basement of the city offices, apparently) Pretty good, and we lingered for hours afterwards talking about various perl things. Casey West was at the table with us, and he provided an interesting contrast to the rest of the folks. He and I were the only non-europeans there--Casey's from Pittsburgh, and I'm from Connecticut. What struck me was how provincial I felt. Yeah, I wasn't nearly as bad as Casey, but then he's a lot younger than I am. Cultural arrogance combined with relative geographic isolation's not a good thing.
After dinner I was up until near-two AM at the hotel just talking, mostly with Jos. It was nice. I don't get out enough socially at home, and I do regret that.
Posted by Dan at September 22, 2002 10:11 PM