Carol Rutz’s Annexe

I shed no tears for your children. For you, of course, but not for your kids.

Do yourselves a favor. Let them face the consequences, and use that bail money instead for a better purpose, like helping out with the medical bills of the kid they screwed up.

They may be your snowflakes, but they knew what they were doing.

On April Fool’s Day, I’ve posted exclusive footage from the LCMS headquarters. The nameless Synodical official wanted me to post it on Youtube. And I did.

Yes, in the midst of the whole controversy on Issues Etc, I’ve RickRoll’d the Wittenberg Trail community. But 2000+ WT members is not enough. And then, someone thought of something MOAR epic.

Shea Stadium will joining the ranks of Comiskey Park and the Kingdome as it will be imploded after this season. The most memorable thing about Shea is not the architecture, but the people who attended the concerts and Mets games. Here is footage of The Beatles’ performance in 1965:

When you attend an event at Shea, you will hear the loud sound of the crowd. This year, the Mets organization decided to let the fans choose the final 8th Inning Sing-A-Long. We of the Internet figured that a certain song with catchy lyrics, a distinct voice, and a great refrain should be that final song. That song is none other than Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. It is also a great tribute to the Mets fandom and the team, who never gave up, even if the losing streak suggested otherwise. Just choose “Other” and fill the song in. We have until Monday to vote. Enjoy your weekend!

After I’ve posted that OSCON registration was open, they added more stuff. One very interesting talk by Kirrily Skud Robert will be on learning protocol for interacting with the non-geek world. I followed a link to a great post on how geeks view the dress code protocols (casual vs business casual, etc).

On business casual and geek casual, they pretty much hit it on the head. But for me, I strayed on the “geek formal” aspect. I am aware about black tie and white tie matters, and I was surprised that no one yet mentioned how various scenes of Anime/Manga featured black tie affairs.

Here are my categories of geek attire:

Muckety-Mucks: You muck about at home or at grocery stores. Sweats and shirt. Degree of wear and tear unimportant. Perfect for marathon movie viewing. Just practice good hygiene.

Geek Casual: T-Shirt or sweatshirt and jeans or pants. Nothing too worn out.

Geek Business Casual: Crisp, ironed non-wrinkled tee, sweater or polo, with Dockers or dress pants. I prefer Threadless t-shirts and any geek-printed shirt whose fabric is from American Apparel. AA shirts are soft cotton and very smooth weave. Denim can be allowed if it’s tailored right (Diesel, 7 For All Mankind, etc)…but YOU MUST defer to the management. In my case, where I’m working now does not allow tees, and denim is only allowed on Fridays (for a small donation to a charity kitty). There I follow Non-Geek Business Casual.

Fancy Casual: When I go to church, depending on feast days and functions I wear either Geek Business Casual, Non-Geek Business Casual or something from Chico’s. Whatever Chico’s sells is Fancy Casual.

Robert noticed that women dressed more like men in Geek Casual. That’s because Geek Attire is unisex. Not only that, it’s also the most forgiving to women’s figures. It cuts down on the catty comments about muffin-tops and it covers up any physical phenomena that women do face (viz. bloating, weight changes, etc).

AND NO, IT’S NOT AN APRIL FOOL.

To me, it means that I will be making plans to head out. Hopefully, I’ll be there (barring anything different).

For me, there will be sessions and tutorials that I want to attend. For example, Akkana Peck will have a tutorial on the GIMP and how to do some magic with that. I want to learn how to use that better than before. And there is this TCP/IP troubleshooting tutorial by Darren Hoch. And of course, there is Zak Greant’s The Age of Literate Machines. He was the first guy who welcomed me into the Open Source community, when I first attended OSCON last year.

The Prediger is hoping that I would return with more pens and shirts for him.

Note that these people dressed up like young adults were anything but young. We won’t fall for your pandering!