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essentialsaltesLast night was the Three Geminis Birthday celebration. Demonstrating a leap into the future, all three have LJ's now, while zero had LJ's last year. Plenty of conviviality. And scotch. And (courtesy of the soon (sniff) to be departing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
razrangel) wine.
(personal) Highlight: after discussing the slashdotting of Robert's workserver following the release of some of his total Photoshop jobs, Robert said it was like a DDOS attack, but since the strain on the server came from people who were positively inclined in the data and the mission, I thought a better phrase was a denial of service hug, which tickled Robert to no end.
(personal) Lowlight: after shepherding a CD-ROM of Phil&LB pictures from C&L's wedding safely through about 3 hours of party, largely by means of sticking the damn thing on the end of a finger, I managed to break it under my fat ass in the last half hour of partay. Sorry guys! Don't feel obliged to make me another - I'll just ruin it.
But mainly it was fun to hang out in a crowd of excellent people, ranging from bestest friends to those-cool-people-I-see-once-a-year-at-Gemini-time.
razrangel) wine.(personal) Highlight: after discussing the slashdotting of Robert's workserver following the release of some of his total Photoshop jobs, Robert said it was like a DDOS attack, but since the strain on the server came from people who were positively inclined in the data and the mission, I thought a better phrase was a denial of service hug, which tickled Robert to no end.
(personal) Lowlight: after shepherding a CD-ROM of Phil&LB pictures from C&L's wedding safely through about 3 hours of party, largely by means of sticking the damn thing on the end of a finger, I managed to break it under my fat ass in the last half hour of partay. Sorry guys! Don't feel obliged to make me another - I'll just ruin it.
But mainly it was fun to hang out in a crowd of excellent people, ranging from bestest friends to those-cool-people-I-see-once-a-year-at-Gemini-time.
