Countries Beginning with I

^ Clay Baenziger of the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group poses as a “sysadmin to go”.

In conjunction with CommunityOne, we held a boot camp for OpenSolaris User Group leaders, bringing representatives in from around the world to share knowledge on how to create, grow, and support their groups.

We started off the morning with the Go Game, which I highly recommend as both a team building activity and a great way to get out, move around, and see some of the city.

The game includes creative challenges which must be documented in photos or video. I don’t remember what the above photo’s theme was meant to be, but Clay in the delivery truck is just so darned cute… And apparently it was a challenge: the delivery guy agreed to the photo, but kept a very close watch to be sure that this wasn’t just a ploy to steal his packages.

^ why we really went to San Francisco

not feeling well at all, and I have to get on another plane. #
@nonstick coslept lots. It was easier than getting up every two hours #
@timbray at the least, I wd keep it off your lap! #
@amandachapel wd take the backlash article more seriously if it wasn’t in such dire need of copy editing #
really, really DON’T need to be getting sick this week. #
Brazilllllll… da da da da da da da da…. #
fun bunch of Sun folks coming to FISL. This is gonna be a blast! #
@DonMacAskill I feel sorry for the Clear folks. They must deal with a lot of that. Love my Clear, though! #d7 #clear in reply to DonMacAskill #
@timbray I’m seeing that display switching issue with both Air and new MacBook Pro. Often have to restart to clean it up. in reply to timbray #
@italylogue wouldn’t mind a good dinner at any of a dozen restaurants in Milan, but OTOH not missing the afa (hot, humid smog) in reply to italylogue #
want a preview of C1 OpenSolaris talks? Presos now available on http://bit.ly/6kl7N and don’t miss the videos, e.g. http://bit.ly/2lhfCg #
@nonstick <shrug> wasn’t a problem for us. Maybe because our apt in Milan was so tiny we practically did everything together anyway in reply to nonstick #
@italylogue any Gattuso? in reply to italylogue #
have a feeling I just threw a hotel’s A/V crew into a tizzy. Too many sites to deal with in one week. #
a Dublin taxi driver told me of his impoverished youth, getting food from the stew house. Seems he was one of the lucky http://bit.ly/B1zx1 #
taking care of business for 2 or 3 different entities, and haven’t even finished my first coffee! #
FT editorial stirs comment in Italy “”He has squads of starlets, not of Blackshirts,'” http://bit.ly/t3SAn #
I have learned a LOT in the last 10 days about how useful Twitter+bit.ly is for marketing. Hope I have time to write about it soonish. #
@RealShamu re. coconut crab, where does that live so I can stay the hell away from it? in reply to RealShamu #
Getting (most) engineers comfortable in front of a camera… well, there’s an art to it. And I enjoy it. #
does the neighborhood ice cream truck know it’s playing “The Union Maid”? #
yesterday we soft-launched translated/subtitled video – use the tag cloud in the sidebar of http://bit.ly/19B0bm #
waking up slowly. the perpetual sinus infection flaring again. air travel doesn’t help, but wdn’t change that if I cd, hope I don’t have to #
Jeffco cops need cash – speed traps on Wadsworth and Indiana #
@sumaya even just using hand cream a lot can make fingerprints hard to read (learned that from Clear) in reply to sumaya #
experiences with UStream in low bandwidth conditions? Wd the audio continue smoothly with bad video, or will the whole stream just give up? #
ANSA.it – News in English – Amnesty International slams Italy http://bit.ly/12FkHe #
don’t know which is more valuable – the article or the video that follows – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/ZUOKr #
@missbhavens damn. you make me hate the probably depressing tour I’m about to take of my fridge. But tomorrow – dinner with Jeffrey & co! in reply to missbhavens #
@templedf and don’t forget Janice is working on the USB video sticks #HPC #Solaris #communityone in reply to templedf #
great. probably the most intense week of my year coming up, and I feel like crap. #
A Prime Ministerâ€™s Escapades Finally Raise Eyebrows in Italy – NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/bIMJD #
trying to figure out where to go, where to stay, what to do in Calif wine country next weekend (June5-6)with hubs. Suggestions? #
listening to Chris Armes’ rehearsal of “Deploying OpenSolaris in Your Datacentre” #
expense report from last trip done, half an hour before departing for next trip #
perhaps the main reason for going to community events is (duh!) to meet the community. Some fascinating people have registered for C1. #
Ohhhkay… It’s gonna be one of those trips I see #
Childrn who are too small to NEED to recline the seat shd not be allowed to. #
This kid wd also be a good argument for tranquilizing toddlers in flight #
Time gained by flight being early is dribbling away at baggage claim #
Hope to get to hotelin time for steaming shower be4 dinner. Lynn taking my bag in the car, bless her! #
@deirdrewalsh what? where? I’m a Texas Ex! in reply to deirdrewalsh #
@jaredpolis huh. now I’m curious to see what this blue wood looks like. Seeing the trees die is so sad. http://bit.ly/IvgWG in reply to jaredpolis #
@deirdrewalsh op sorry in San francisco! #
@pizzocalabro genre does not matter with great lit #
thanks to @jeffreytaylor John and Faith for an excellent dinner and even better company! #
@ingenthr you’re in the wrong city! in reply to ingenthr #
@pizzocalabro don’t worry, Pratchett is an avowed atheist. in reply to pizzocalabro #
@sfoskett are you in SFO? wd love to put a real face to avatar, finally. I’ll be at the OHAC Summit today, OpenSolaris tracks Mon-Tue in reply to sfoskett #
@ingenthr coming to the OHAC Summit on Sunday? interesting stuff going on there in reply to ingenthr #
got a travel-sized white noise machine, because we both snore these days. That plus ear plugs, maybe we’ll both get some sleep! #
@pizzocalabro yes, loved it, though I enjoy Discworld more for pure escapism (though it’s rather more than that, too). in reply to pizzocalabro #
http://johncleesenigerianlottery.co.uk/ “an understandable reaction to the talent, intelligence & height that is John Cleese.” RT@JohnCleese #
NB: John Cleese really is tall. My 6’3″ dad stood next to him at Heathrow once and had to look up, for once in his life. #
still feel like crap. On the upside, Enrico should arrive soon, and we have tickets to Wicked tonight – 20th anniversary celebration! #
@nonstick earplugs or no, I have rarely slept really well since last trimester of pregnancy, 20 years ago. in reply to nonstick #
@nonstick thanks. We get to celebrate twice – had a civil wedding in January, party wedding in May. in reply to nonstick #
glad I was able to enjoy the renaissance of Disney when Ross was small, but also that we missed out on the “Princesses” phase. #
@danilop congratulations! in reply to danilop #
@MissExpatria ? Wicked didn’t exist 20 years ago, are you thinking of Into the Woods? We did see that just about exactly 20 years ago in reply to lskrocki #
@lskrocki when do you get to San Francisco? My gang wants to meet you in reply to lskrocki #
@angadsingh looking forward to seeing you! #javaoneconf #
@shawnferry the masked lawnmower man? rides into the suburbs and rescues innocent people from weeds! #
About time to take our seats. Excited. I love musical theater! #
Wicked was pretty much as good as I had hoped, but the ending was a shock. (I read the book when it first came out, long before the show.) #
@shawnferry white noise machine is a small, standalone electronic machine. Prob with recordings is they loop and you hear it. This doesn’t. in reply to shawnferry #
@silverguru stop by and see us on the OpenSolaris tracks too! in reply to silverguru #
have a feeling I’m going to be amazed by how many Sun people I meet this week that I actually already know. I lose track of my own travels. #
@missbhavens I think your garden needs a plaster Michelangelo’s David that you can dress up according to season in reply to missbhavens #
@dave_enz argh! no! I had enough of that in Colorado already. #snowing #Wellington I’m getting this hemispheres thing all wrong, apparently in reply to dave_enz #
@ajkeen Italians are amazingly non-digital. It’s very possible the photog didn’t have backups. Doh! in reply to ajkeen #
spent much of 1st act of Wicked trying not to cough. Discovered that whiskey after cough drops tastes really foul. But it stopped the cough #

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