| Tem years ago a friend and I arranged the FOSCON event, which was the free OSCON for people who couldn't afford that conference. O'Reilly was happy to collaborate with us by the way. We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us. As the MCs, we pretended to be the founders of a new company that was going to take on Twitter and Kevin Rose's new Pownce. We had slides between each presentation with awful marketing buzzwords and tried to appear as clueless as possible. We would ask people to quiet down and say things like "Listen, we paid a lot of money for this sponsorship..." Omitting vowels was all the rage. We called our company: Sqkwzr.com (Can you believe that domain was free?) The company took the concept of Twitter to a whole new level, where you could "tweet" out your farts and things like that automatically. We had a slide with each egress point labeled with hex addresses like 0xa55. The tagline in the slides was: "every orifice has a story to tell." Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) was at OSCON that year and I approached him to see if he would attend and pretend he was an investor. I still have the email where he declined. |
I just found it amusing that you could interpret this in more than one way.