meetup 2

By anders pearson 17 Jan 2003

went to my second <a href=”http://perl.meetup.com/“>perl meetup</a> last night.

this time it was me, <a href=”http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=tilly”>tilly</a>, <a href=”http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=perrin”>perrin</a>, and two new people: Avi and Laura.

we met at a cafe down on St. Marks and had some beers and talked. mostly about programming stuff and the state of the tech economy.

we had some bonus entertainment when Laura stopped mid sentence, froze and turned white as a sheet. then the rest of us followed her gaze to a nice big cockroach climbing the wall right next to tilly. Avi handled the extermination with a napkin and a blunt object. we were pretty unphased, but our waitress was mortified. this brought up the subject of geckos (apparently letting a gecko loose in your apartment is a very efficient way of reducing the insect population) and their <a href=”http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/Profs_office/Full/Publications/publication_reprint_PDFs/63_evidofvanderwaals2.pdf”>feet</a>.