[conspire] Golden Penguin Bowl, LinuxWorld Expo, NYC, 2001

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 11:52:27 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com>
Subject: Re: Pics
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/scan6c_2_589x378_nerds.jpg?width=640
> 
> http://images.mrbrklyn.com/scan1c_2_617x394_geekswin2.jpg?width=640

My God, that was fun.  

The reason the guy with the black polo shirt and goofy grin was
unbeatable on buzzer reaction time, by the way, is that he'd had half
a tin of Penguin Mints that morning.  Nobody told him this would dose
him with about the same amount of caffeine as 10 cups of coffee.

I didn't sleep that night -- and then a _lot_ the following night.

Also, the guy with the goofy grin looks better without the moustache, and
has lost weight since 2001.

https://www.wired.com/2001/02/whos-better-geeks-or-nerds/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010207200737/http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/01/31/010131hnquiz.xml

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