Sun threw a party last night that was, on the grand scheme of things, fairly crappy. The guys pouring the beer didn’t have a clue, so I got a half a cup of foam. They had ping pong balls but no ping pong tables. The food was medium-to-high end buffet finger food, including a ‘build-your-own-sandwich’ section (as long as you wanted meat and mustard…I didn’t see any vegetables but someone can correct me if there were some there). The music was horribly balanced, resulting in bass bass bass. It was in a converted parkade, and by “converted” I mean “nothing’s changed except rug on the floor”. And they had plastic big-wheel tricycles there that the wheels kept falling off of.
I’ll leave it to the reader to draw parallels between Sun and the tricycles.
Edit: By the way, the title refers to the ad for the Sun OSCON BoF. lolcats has totally jumped the shark.
#1 by just jon on July 26th, 2007
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I believe the ping pong balls were not so much for ping pong as for beer pong.
jon
#2 by just jon on July 26th, 2007
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whoops, should have a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_pong there.
#3 by stevel on July 30th, 2007
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Agree on some points, disagree on others (though clearly I’m biased since I helped setup the party)
The tap on the kegs was awful… and the dudes were totally clueless as you noted.
The ping pong balls and paddles were for beer pong (as just jon said above), and a variant some folks at Sun play called ‘fish pong’ – if you saw guys playing across two small tables (hitting balls across the divide), that was fish pong.
The food did have veggies – but they went pretty quick, we’ll have to order more next time.
I actually didn’t notice the music myself, but I really wasn’t paying attention to it. It’s entirely possible it was unbalanced. The only thing that struck me about the music was that the DJ looked uncannily like Jesus.
And yeah the trikes kept losing the wheels (apparently they weren’t made for adults, go figure), but I have to say that was kind of half the fun.
#4 by Samh on July 30th, 2007
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Jesus has been dead for around 1974 years, what on earth did this DJ look like ?