hmm. i could write an exhaustive postmortem of the gathering -- or i could transcribe the papers produced by noders throughout the gathering from the typewriter i kept set up on the table. yah. not much more to say than this. why? because i'm exhausted! noders are clean, but they are also difficult to wrangle and keep me up past my bedtime:
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' 'the writeup contributed to | |
by many (but not the most) | |
people ' ' | |
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riverrun, past eve and adams, | |
| | there is a gas t in across from flamw
0x | |
"The transformation of children int | | njj kk
to adults: a more horrific thing | |
I cannot think of. Except maybe | | I've got your nodes... RIGHT HERE!!
the trans | |
formation of children into | 4>| Das Flamende Wiesel
sausages," P*I said stroking | |
his twisty beard. "It&'s actually | |
pretty interesting," moJoe replied, | | foo.
stroking his non-twisty beard, "if | |
youure watching the Discovery Chenn | |
el. | |
| | Eating too much sushi is oe of the
| | worst thiigs oe can possibly do
| | Yes, and I just did that.
poop. | |
These toughts seem so random, but t | 5>| WHERE IS iDEATH?
they are not. Unless, of course, | |
you eat the poop. Or not. I don,t | | excusez moo mai un insect a descend
know. | | u a athere are impacts you n ever h
| | ope or believe you could have. some
I cannot type on this blasted thing |<1 | people want power and some ppeople
Why? Youn seemed to be doing prett | | only understand what is hurt.
y well. | | je ne comprends rien. je ne suis
| | personne.il y a une fete ici, mais
Up until the knuckles | | ou sommes nous? qui sommes nous?
popped for the final time, groaning | | we hide in some sort of technolo
qw | | gical excuse for idenitie, mais it'
under protest of their unceasing | | s all ruse. we're floating and hopi
If my chest were a cannon | | ng something will comclear that we
and ufair tr ieatment. nothing l | | can claim cleanly.
e | |
ft | | there's nothing out there. we can
to fiir | | only try to create or grab something
e | | that will cause noharm. make them
| | laugh, that's probably the best you
i can''t tell if my glasses are | | can even try to do. at least hold to
the wrong color | | to themwhen the have nothing to do
o | | but cry at what happens and hat
or if i 'm reall | | might have happened.
i y | |
see ng ves |<2 |
i kn | |
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SUSHI!!! |<3 |
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WDS 0NZ j00 411. 5h!N3 0n j00 CRAZY | |
D!4M0ND!!!! | |
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i am so 3li73 that my pants don,t | |
fit. when i defecate, w4r3z come o | |
out. phear. | |
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| | she will feed you tomatoes and radio wire
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| | #!usr/bin/perl
Oddne s abountds, this is llo tech, h | |
how does it work........ | | print "No node is complete without perl";
| | print 'Except this one.&';
fuck this noder shit. | |
Alh kjg; g; ,jak jarrdl; ,jdl G ktr | | if
d gl H.soave Oops. QWERTY, damn!! | | if i were at home I would probably
--qous | | eatitoese withomegemitewouldxprobly
| | eat toa
| | at toast with vegemite and avocado
How could anyone type on a keyboard | | for breakfast. instead i have stra
like DVORAK? QWERTY forever! | | nge convenience store pastries fet
| | ched by qousqous. there is vegemite
eat poop you cat | | in my backpack, but I,m not sure it
teeth | | would go that well on apple danish.
| |
flora tromped merrily throgh the jun | | perhaps it would go better with some
-iper trees, even though they were | |
bushes. | | nvolutiona ry polymers as an industrial
| |
I don,t konw that could be called th | | solvent. Im remaining eternally skeptical
the morning after as it was morning | |
before we went to bed... | |
"chez weasel, who;s calling pleas |<6 |
e? | | Yours,
" | |
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the typewriter has no square | | the eternal order of people who have
brackets and so it can;t be used | | waited too long by half to make a trip
for noding. | | to the b throom.
| |
The sky was lavender (or maybe | 7>| qousqous, joyquality, moJoe, reed,
periwinkle). The revelers groaned | | radlab0, p_i, icicle, (wonko),dwyn
and soon fell over. | | and achan after moJoe whomI forgot!
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1/4 1/2 3/4 'pate' is a wood word. | |
'noggin' is an avocado pit. | | ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES
'head' is made of bone, but only in | | onions are meaner.
the most banal way. this is morning. | | sweets. eaten like apples or sun-hot
| | tomatoes, out of hand. bite
| |
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| | Fadin fast to jukka, a noder party is lik
| | a night in the chatbox, but with live
| | ,action, added... Quite the (mis)adventur
| | e?......
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((3)) | | ((4))
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we ♥ noders |
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lost wandering the in exurban wastelands |
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to the a t off here, an elastic spastic |
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caravan on their way to a foodless wonder |
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arrived and departed, juggling noders |
(danger!) |
along the danger-frought way. (danger!) |
(danger!) |
Xoh no. . . . |
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or perhaps there is:
- It's so funny to watch people who are used to the instant revisions afforded to us by these boxes we're all pecking at right now adjust to the impossibility of revision with a typewriter. I've included the screwups and used the <strike> where people put 'x's over the misspelled / unwanted word.
- Someone was feeling all fucking emo. I wonder who?
- Mad props go out to the Esteemed Prime Minister Qous, who made absolutely fabulous california rolls and salmon rolls for all of us lazy / drunk bastards. We luv qous!
- Wow. If the sushi wasn't enough, Secretary General Qous also brought a rad children's book he wrote (in german) about my username, illustrated by him and joyquality. We even got a reading in front of the Hurricane, all of us noders arrayed like a children's class around qous, who sat on a newspaper vending machine and read the story and its translation to us.
- *sigh*. The only slightly less than really cool part of the evening; a miscommunication led to stressing and worry. It all worked out in the end, though, so we can all just be happy.
- As with all large gatherings, there were plenty of little logistics problems and needs for me to lead others to places. As such, many times the land line was answered in this way, which was fine for most of my calls -- but the occasional telemarketer must have been a little thrown off.
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Ooh. Pics: flamingweasel.com/louds/
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did I say this?
I'd really like to sincerly thank everyone that showed up. You all are the nicest group of some strangers, some aquaintences, some friends I've had around in a long time. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Y'all made this meet really all sorts of cool things, all of which I'd like to explicate but which has been said before.
I ♥ noders.