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Originally Posted by Verencat
:sighs: Nah, but I want one more then ever!!!
See how the boys look happy in that last pic? Kids with toys, I tell ya!  |
Mine was more of an embarassed smile. Imagine this; we shamefully stole the pub's pool table under the stare of other patrons only to expose our gadgets. You know, the classic meetup pose? Only geeks can get away with that...
I would have liked it for us to be more members present there but fortunately being so few allowed us to have better conversations. P-shrynk, as he says should be pronounced, is amazingly bright, learned and loads of fun to be around with. Distance is cruel... Tompe is a force of nature, curious, intelligent, learned, quite eloquent and communicative beyond our language barriers, an other guy I'd spend hours with. DanT is also curious and quick but so shy and quiet, we didn't have enough time to develop something. Ziguezon and his lovely wife were at the other end of the table and we had so few moments together that I feel we should get together again just to chat. Quickhand is the Mobile Read geek by excellence, by himself he had half of the devices on the table. Now that is amazing since in Quebec only the Bookeen Gen3 is officially available. He also had a prototype of a reader that was... I'll say steampunked. It was so cool I wanted to tear up the ol' 500 apart to do somethig similar with it. An other totally interesting guy. And then there was VCat, that charming young lady, so shy herself and so happy for that special encounter that even as I am her father, I had difficulty understanding why the usual chatterbox was so quiet.
To you all that were there, thank you for sharing that brief moment, I wish there will be more!
I know I promised live pictures and comments from the discussion but as I found out the wifi link at the place where we were seated was so weak and impossible to manage that I selfishly decided to enjoy the most of what was possible; the enjoyment of great company!
The movies I took were of an incompatible format for MR, and of shoddy cinematographic quality, so I won't bother trying to post them. The pictures were not great either Cat's were much clearer. But still here's one of a precious pile of junk.
(Note to oneself: "Turn on the damned flash once in a while!"
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Oh, by the way, I'm the smiling gray seal on the left.
Looking forward to the next meeting. I know what to do next and I promise it will be better.
Yvan