The California trip round up
- Delta left my suitcase in Atlanta. For no reason, my co-worker's (who was on the same flights) bag made it to San Jose just fine. So I got to use crappy "complimentary" Delta toiletries and do laundry my first day of the trip. They did deliver it the next day, so it worked out okay. I'm just glad I didn't put the laptop I needed for the class in the suitcase... as I was seriously thinking of doing.
- I can now write bpel processes in my sleep. Literally. Had a whole nice, long dream about doing just that. Is that a sign of good training?
- Oracle classes had no Internet access so I actually had to pay attention and find ways to break the software (at least 3 found!)
- Hotels would make more money on in-room Internet access if their free lobby wireless didn't work on the 5th floor. Suckers.
- I met a drunken guy in the hotel lobby who claimed to be the Oracle VP of training from Virginia and talked much about...
- Processors that run at 30ghz and are hotter than the surface of the sun and have to be water cooled.
- His Datacenter receiving the "most green datacenter" award because they produce more energy than they use (those hot cpus above)
- Machines will soon rise against us, since we're the only thing keeping them from never being broken. They self-fix.
- I can now say I have seen the most useless device ever. A laser pointer that plugs in your ipod. I can totally visualize the meeting that culminated in this fine product:
- yo man.. I have this cool idea...
- ...
- Get this man.. a laser pointer that plugs into the ipod!
- ...
- .. and a flashlight!!
- dude..
- yah.. I know man.. pass the bong. - The only fun part of the "MySQL Quiz" at the MySQL conference was heckling them from the (very small) audience.
"What does B in MySQL AB stand for?"
Maybe if they had better questions.. or prizes.. (see above).
"Boring!" - Someone on the plane was using Milton from "office space" as a ring tone. "Excuse me.. I think you have my stapler..". Half the plane burst out laughing.. speaks well of them.
- After using my work windows laptop for a week.. I really appreciate my powerbook.
Comments
> Maybe if they had better questions.. or prizes.. (see above).
Where?
Posted by: mike | April 25, 2005 03:05 AM
The stupid ipod thing.. that was one of the prizes.
Posted by: kasia | April 25, 2005 07:14 AM
Oh man ... I loved the drunk guy. That one made my day ...
Posted by: Paul | April 25, 2005 05:38 PM
OH ... and VPs don't ever take high school physics. The only way to be the VP of a company is to change your major out of something technical because you can't pass calculus.
Posted by: Paul | April 25, 2005 05:40 PM