In one of Damian’s tutorials he was talking about a poorly-written piece of Perl code that would sit there for ten minutes and, if you were lucky, coredump. He said that it would be nice if Perl played “Girl From Ipanema” and then coredumped.

Since then “Girl From Ipanema” has become the unofficial theme song of OSCON 2006, at least for those of us hanging out on IRC. I thought it reached a zenith last night when Chris got the restaurant’s piano player to play “Girl From Ipanema”.

But no.

This morning on IRC this transpired:

<CanSpice> gnat: any chance you might be able to twist
some arms and get the a/v guys to play Girl From Ipanema
as one of the between-keynotes tracks this morning?
<CanSpice> Before Damian's keynote would be best. :)
<gnat> CanSpice: I'll try.

[snip]

<allegroconmolto> girl from ipanema?
* allegroconmolto sashays.
<CanSpice> OH SNAP
<sirhc> w00t!
<skippy> aloha
<sirhc> go gnat
<CanSpice> gnat, you rule
<sirhc> gnat++++++++
<jgw|dbltree> gnatt && canspice ftw
<CanSpice> dance gnat, dance!

gnat is Nat Torkington, the OSCON Program Chair, and he got “Girl From Ipanema” playing as background music before the keynote addresses this morning.

I think this might go down in OSCON mythology.

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