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Re: [shoes] I'm speaking about Shoes at Lone Star Ruby Conf!

From:

Cecil Coupe

Date:

2011-06-24 @ 03:41

Have fun in Austin and remember to bring a towel. It can get hot, humid
and then worse. There is a great BBQ place out somewhere near a lake
outside of town.  

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 23:27 -0400, Steve Klabnik wrote:
> Hey everybody-
> 
> 
> I've been doing a _loooot_ (ugh, lot, not loot) of secret scheming
> about Shoes lately. Once it's all more cohesive, I'll be posting some
> of my plans to the ML, but here's one small part of the puzzle: I got
> a talk about Shoes accepted to a conference! Lone Star Ruby
> Conference, in Austin, to be more specific. Here's a link to the
> abstract, on speakerrate: http://speakerrate.com/talks/7877
> 
> 
> Yay!
> 
> 
> -Steve

> remember to bring a towel.

Ha! Yeah, I've only been there for SXSW; I'm sure it's much worse in August.

> any chance of a youtube vid

Probably! Most conferences record those things and post them somewhere. 

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Cecil Coupe wrote:

> Have fun in Austin and remember to bring a towel. It can get hot, humid
> and then worse. There is a great BBQ place out somewhere near a lake
> outside of town. 
> 
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 23:27 -0400, Steve Klabnik wrote:
> > Hey everybody-
> > 
> > 
> > I've been doing a _loooot_ (ugh, lot, not loot) of secret scheming
> > about Shoes lately. Once it's all more cohesive, I'll be posting some
> > of my plans to the ML, but here's one small part of the puzzle: I got
> > a talk about Shoes accepted to a conference! Lone Star Ruby
> > Conference, in Austin, to be more specific. Here's a link to the
> > abstract, on speakerrate: http://speakerrate.com/talks/7877
> > 
> > 
> > Yay!
> > 
> > 
> > -Steve

congrats!  interested to hear the schemes -

give 'em hell...

  - j

Hi Steve,

FANTASTIC!!

Can't wait to watch your presentation about Shoes! :-D

Great work. Thanks,
ashbb

*ZOMG!!!! THAT R0X PURPLE S0X!!!!*  seriously!  have fun @ the conference!!!
(i wish i could be there, any chance of a youtube vid of the talk??)
hex



On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Cecil Coupe <ccoupe@cableone.net> wrote:

> Have fun in Austin and remember to bring a towel. It can get hot, humid
> and then worse. There is a great BBQ place out somewhere near a lake
> outside of town.
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 23:27 -0400, Steve Klabnik wrote:
> > Hey everybody-
> >
> >
> > I've been doing a _loooot_ (ugh, lot, not loot) of secret scheming
> > about Shoes lately. Once it's all more cohesive, I'll be posting some
> > of my plans to the ML, but here's one small part of the puzzle: I got
> > a talk about Shoes accepted to a conference! Lone Star Ruby
> > Conference, in Austin, to be more specific. Here's a link to the
> > abstract, on speakerrate: http://speakerrate.com/talks/7877
> >
> >
> > Yay!
> >
> >
> > -Steve
>
>
>


-- 

> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No.  That's it.  The cool name, that is.  We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah.  I've got Linux.  What a cool name".  386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
	-- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux