[Chicago] The Portland group guards the door to their meetings...

[Frank Duncan]

As I broke my shoulder last week, it's definitely a fight you would  
have won.  But you'd still be stuck using a shoddy, derivative  
language running on an oracle vm, so I think the victory would have  
been phyrric.

On Mar 11, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com>  
wrote:

> Sorry guys, I tentatively offered to do Clojure, but can't make it.  
> So, I cannot offer you closure on the language showdown. (Get it?  
> Closure?)
>
> Too bad, I was looking forward to getting thrown out of a bar for  
> punching a Common Lisp programmer. That's only happened to me a  
> handful of times.
>
> -Tal
>
> On 03/11/2010 11:31 AM, Dan Krol wrote:
>> Talked to Tristan, who was signed up for Haskell. He never heard  
>> back about it so he didn't realize that this went past speculative  
>> phases, so he's not ready to talk tonight.
>>
>> Maybe we should doublecheck that everybody's ready?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Brian Ray <bray at sent.com <mailto:bray at sent.com 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>>
>>    On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:48 AM, skip at pobox.com
>>    <mailto:skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>          Garrett> I think having bouncers would be *ridiculously*
>>        cool. Carl?
>>
>>        By making it harder to get into you'd probably raise the
>>        cachet and suddenly
>>        everyone would want to get in, as if if was the latest trendy
>>        night club.
>>        You'd probably have to start serving chocolate martinis.  Then
>>        you'd get
>>        written up on the social pages of the Trib after Kanye showed
>>        up one
>>        night...
>>
>>
>>
>>    We might be able to pull that off, Sullys?
>>
>>    On a side note the line up tonight is shaping up nicely:
>>
>>    http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tWDOaOr7_kqB-yVgfQPRh7w&single=true&gid=0&output=html
>>    <http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tWDOaOr7_kqB-yVgfQPRh7w&single=true&gid=0&output=html 
>> >
>>
>>    This is going to be insane.  I think we invited Kanye before but
>>    he would not stop interrupting ;)
>>
>>    Brian Ray
>>
>>
>>
>>
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