Tell me about it. I went to the San Diego CSE party, nobody was there, then I find that the venue was changed at the last minute after the fact to the Intuit complex in San Diego.
So I show up there piss drunk on Sunday with a fat chick, and there's only one guy there for the Slashdot "party". He explains a bunch of nonsense why nobody else there, I don't listen, then I explain to him that I was banned from posting because I trolled the fuck out of Slashdot and that trolling rocks. The guy said that
I can't speak for Florida, but in the Midwest it was probably to pretend they don't live in the middle of nowhere.
They certainly didn't name Mexico Missouri after Mexico because they really like hispanic immigrants. And Versailles Missouri wasn't named because of their love of French words: the correct pronunciation is exactly as you would read phonetically in English. If you say "ver-SAI" Missouri, that's wrong. It's "Ver-say-lez."
They were mostly founded by former residents of the cities whose names they "stole". But who was the original Springfield? There is one in almost every state in the union, there's one in Australia and one in Canada. There are probably more elsewhere.
You have to remember that the US had no cities 200 years ago. And Glasgow sounds suspiciously Russian...
Don't forget the big example of the city so nice that they named it twice: NYNY is New York named for the York in England, and before that, the southern tip of Manhattan was
Nieuw-Amsterdam [wikipedia.org] and was the captial city of
New Netherland. [wikipedia.org] If they weren't naming colonies after rulers, e.g. Virginia and Georgia, they were naming them after familiar territories back home, e.g. New Hampshire.
The city was named St. Petersburg by a Russian immigrant and railroad tycoon, Peter Demens (Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev, cyrillic: slashdot won't display)
I know I was subscribed to/. meetups (even went to a couple, one in St. Pete, one in Carrollwood) once upon a time, but I didn't get a notice. Glad it was fun.
You should come to one of the SLUG meetings or hacking sessions.
We have talks ranging from programming languages (especially new/interesting ones), robotics, war stories, etc. We have had some guest speakers in the past,
including the first person to setup a webserver in North America.
Disclosure: I've been a member for the last decade; and I'm also the president and meeting coordinator for the Pinellas meetings.
I've bookmarked the SLUG site, but I'm already pretty time-constrained (Sunday's one thing, Tuesday's another, Wednesday's a third, etc.): the perils of having both a family and hobbies besides computers.
In Vancouver, a medium-sized city with about 2 million in surrounding area, there was exactly one person show up, and he was the single most boring person in Vancouver.
Shitty "party".
What's the population of St Petersburg? Fuck, it appears there are about 250,000 people in St Petersburg, 600,000 in Vancouver. Lame...
St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the metro area, which is called Tampa Bay [wikipedia.org]
From Wikipedia: "The Census Bureau currently estimates the population for the CMSA at 4,228,855 as of 2010 during consolidation.[3] as of July 1, 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Florida and fourth in the Southeast."
St. Petersburg (Score:2)
And only good food and people? No booze? What kind of party is that?
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Tell me about it. I went to the San Diego CSE party, nobody was there, then I find that the venue was changed at the last minute after the fact to the Intuit complex in San Diego.
So I show up there piss drunk on Sunday with a fat chick, and there's only one guy there for the Slashdot "party". He explains a bunch of nonsense why nobody else there, I don't listen, then I explain to him that I was banned from posting because I trolled the fuck out of Slashdot and that trolling rocks. The guy said that
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They certainly didn't name Mexico Missouri after Mexico because they really like hispanic immigrants. And Versailles Missouri wasn't named because of their love of French words: the correct pronunciation is exactly as you would read phonetically in English. If you say "ver-SAI" Missouri, that's wrong. It's "Ver-say-lez."
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I kid you not, but for ages I wondered what all the fuss was about a hotel in Paris. :)
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I like Paris, Texas. They have a replica of the Eifell tower, but with a cowboy hat on top. ;)
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They were mostly founded by former residents of the cities whose names they "stole". But who was the original Springfield? There is one in almost every state in the union, there's one in Australia and one in Canada. There are probably more elsewhere.
You have to remember that the US had no cities 200 years ago. And Glasgow sounds suspiciously Russian...
Don't forget old and new York (Score:2)
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Buccaneers (Score:1)
I have seen every Buccaneers game for the last 10 years, because I don't live in Florida any more.
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I have seen every Buccaneers game for the last 10 years
Loser.
8 showed up at Denvers 10/13 anniversary (Score:2)
send more coffee (Score:2)
Maybe it was the FL dateline that did it, but I initially read the summary as "getting together with other Slashdot readers in prison."
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Spring Break! Woo Hoo! [youtube.com]
Meetup? (Score:2)
I know I was subscribed to /. meetups (even went to a couple, one in St. Pete, one in Carrollwood) once upon a time, but I didn't get a notice. Glad it was fun.
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I've bookmarked the SLUG site, but I'm already pretty time-constrained (Sunday's one thing, Tuesday's another, Wednesday's a third, etc.): the perils of having both a family and hobbies besides computers.
I missed it! (Score:1)
40 People Attended in San Francisco (Score:1)
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This is probably a net benefit - keeps the spread of CyberAIDS to a minimum.
Snarky NFL Comment (Score:1)
Better than Vancouver's party (Score:2)
In Vancouver, a medium-sized city with about 2 million in surrounding area, there was exactly one person show up, and he was the single most boring person in Vancouver.
Shitty "party".
What's the population of St Petersburg? Fuck, it appears there are about 250,000 people in St Petersburg, 600,000 in Vancouver. Lame...
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St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the metro area, which is called Tampa Bay [wikipedia.org]
From Wikipedia: "The Census Bureau currently estimates the population for the CMSA at 4,228,855 as of 2010 during consolidation.[3] as of July 1, 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Florida and fourth in the Southeast."