[Dynamite] Re: pigdog-l (fwd)

[Ewan Birney]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Ian Holmes wrote:

> pigdog-l is a mailing list that grew out of the "underground"-ish BBS
> scene, according to the Spock Mountain Research Laboratory beard in his
> white labcoat that I spoke to on Thursday night. The '-ish' is my
> addition. A lot of the same groups of people go to Mozilla Dot Party and
> Burning Man and talk about it on Pigdog, and the white-coated (with
> Spock's face on the back of the coat) SMRL crew is one such group. I sort
> of hope there are other groups too...

So - are you planning to go on this list - there seems to be nothing on
forwarded in the mail.
> 
> The Mozilla party was OK, I met a couple of Netscape people, and climbed
> up on the stage and shouted "Open Source Massive" after only one drink.
> They started off with awards, then house, then there were two horrible
> hours when they played the kind of 80's music I used to code to get away
> from; but then, when most people had left, THEN they slipped into some
> fuckinWIKKID old-school miami electro breakbeats, and I danced until my
> little toes hurt and I missed the last train home.
> 

;) open source massive sounds like fun. Did anyone get it? Boy - I am
jealous. The best hacker stuff here is...errr... not sure. I was wearing
my GNOME t shirt and got recognised as GNOME guy in london but I am
*really* unsure if this is cool or uncool... 

> Basically it was a very geeky party. One huge screen with Mozilla code
> scrolling continuously past. Lots of very badly dressed people gamely
> flailing away, especially when they played The Cure.
> 

;)

> The sex ratio was quite mixed. Ann said the girls were gold-diggers,
> according to Chris. Chris is a programmer at Netscape, and is a pal of
> Ann's roommate (i.e. living in my old room) Mitch, who likes doing stuff
> like running a port of linux on the Hercules IBM mainframe emulator on his
> DEC, through an xterm on his LAN to his linux PowerBook on the futon in
> the living room, dressed in black shirt and trenchcoat ready to go out to
> an industrial club as soon as Ann's decided whether she's going to wear
> the silver pants with the cowboy hat. I like Mitch. (I also reckon Mitch
> could have the SMRL boys and in fact many of the Mozilla coders, but
> anyway.)
> 
> I met one other guy who'd worked at Netscape, in the cryptography team.
> "That's hardcore" I said and he said "yeah that was the internal name for
> our team - `The Hardcore Team'". He drew on his cigarette (or would've if
> smoking was allowed in clubs) and said it involved all this weird prime
> number math coded up in assembly language on custom server-side hardware.
> i didn't ask if their name reflected their bookmarks.
> 

. Hmph. 


> Anyway - thanks for recommending it Ewan cos I probably would've just
> missed it in my general vague blur if you hadn't! ;)
> 

...is someone going to do something about the GAME stuff. Someone in BDGP
should be defending the format. ... hit someone over there ian.


> ian
> 
> 
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