[Catalyst] nothingmuch: no more cdbi?

[David K Storrs]

On Mar 17, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Yuval Kogman wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 16:25:19 +0000, Carl Franks wrote:
>> On 17/03/06, Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org> wrote:

>> I've never been to America in my life, and when I get round to it, it
>> don't think my wife would be too pleased with me nipping off to a
>> computing convention!
>
> Heh. I think I agree with her on this one =)

You might check out http://www.geekcruises.com/  I did that with my  
wife multiple times--the first time being our honeymoon!--and both of  
us had a blast.  It got to the point where she was keeping an eye on  
the site and saying "Hey, Dave, have you seen the next Geekcruise?   
It's to <insert amazing place here>, and I wanna go!"

They were also the most useful conferences I've ever been to; I  
learned a huge amount, and got to rub elbows with some of the best  
and brightest of the computing world...Larry Wall, Damian, Tim Bray,  
Linus Torvalds, etc.  At most conferences, you see the speakers for a  
few hours a day in a classroom setting.  On a GeekCruise, you have  
dinner with them, bump into them in the halls, go pub crawling with  
them, etc.  You spend a lot more time talking with them one-on-one,  
and so you get a lot more insight.

And, of course, while you are doing this, your wife is having a grand  
time--spas, massages, saunas, dancing lessons, games, reading in the  
sun, comedy shows and other professional entertainments, 5 star food  
at every meal, beautiful and exotic ports of call, shore excursions  
to go <glacier trekking, nature hiking, sea kayaking, site seeing,  
etc etc depending on where you are>...the only challenge is to  
remember that it's a vacation and not run yourself to a frazzle  
trying to do too much.


And no, I'm not astroturfing.  I have no association with the company  
aside from being an enthusiastic customer.


--Dks