Re: Any photos from KansasFest?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 22 Jul 2004 01:58:36 -0600, Kirk Mitchell <kmitchel@nyx.net> wrote:

>We miss you, Jeff.  Of course, with every year you miss, we miss you less,
>but still.  B-{)

I miss you guys too and with wise arse remarks like that I now miss
you less too.  :-)

>I'm not going to buy Mesquite charcoal again, that's for sure.  The smoke
>about blinded me!  The KFest Kookout went well though, and no one had to
>wait for grub.  Last year's raffle meant that no one had to kick in
>anything to the pot, so it was a real free for all...  B-{)

There was even more smoke this year than the first year you did the
Kookout.  I definitely don't remember there being that much smoke in
2001.  There was smoke, just not that much.  :-)

I can't remember now who footed the bill for that first year.  I
remember seeing that all that was available was the meat from the
grill so I ran back up to my room and grabbed some chips I had brought
with me.

>This is the first year we haven't had any cigarette smokers.  And not much
>beer drinking either (myself excluded...  B-{)  ).

That's wild.  It is great to hear that there are no smokers there.
Maybe the anti-smoking advertisements and such are actually starting
to work.  Mind you, I don't think the group that goes to KFest is
really representative of the population at large.  :-)

>There are a lot fewer folks staying up until 4-5 AM though.  The
>youngsters we've got wimp out early, and the old folk like Ryan are
>crashing at 2 AM...   

That's just wrong.  Sleep depravation is integral to KFest.  I think
it was during KFest 2000 that I pulled an all nighter working on my
HackFest project and still stayed up until after midnight the
following day.  That KFest memory has kind of a dreamy quality to it
now.  :-)

>Great Keynote by Steve W. Bruces's, Sheppy's and Austin's session were
>great, and the cafeteria food was...  somewhat of a mystery.  Still, they
>had all the ice cream you could eat.  B-{)

Steve's keynote sound very interesting.  I'm hoping Sheppy gets his
videos sorted out and available fairly quickly so I can check out the
sessions this year.  I imagine he'll be selling a DVD through the
Syndicomm online store.

>Tomorrow will be busy.  I'll probably get up for breakfast. Looking
>forward to Geoff's sessions, Greg Nelson's and Tony Diaz is aways
>worthwhile.

Having heard about these sessions already, they sounded great.  I'm
hoping Geoff's modifications to KEGS get released soon as that sounds
wonderful.

>Next year, get here, you hoser!  B-{)

I don't think there is much that will be able to stop me from being
there next year.   You guys just let me know the dates and I'll do
whatever it takes to be there.

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