Last weekend's gossip: It's all here!!! :) (Well, it's a start) | 103 comments (103 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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I think that sadly for me, Barbara was the person I got least chance to talk to. Ah well, maybe I can fix this at some future meet!

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 05:21:15 AM EST

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You bet, Metatone! I do think we would have benefited from playing musical chairs once an hour or so. But not all is lost! We're debating whether to go to Toulouse now, so , if the budget allows and you're there, we will fix it :).

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon

by Barbara on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 05:49:14 AM EST
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The problem is we're moving house next weekend... The budget allows assuming you're willing to trade the requisite visit to IKEA for an ET meetup in Toulouse... </snark>

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 05:51:40 AM EST
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We're debating whether to go to Toulouse now

Terrific! It's beautiful down there and it would be lovely to see you although I realise it's a bit soon after the 1st meet up.

by Alexandra in WMass (alexandra_wmass[a|t]yahoo[d|o|t]fr) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 10:11:17 AM EST
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Sadly there was that whole other-end-of-the-table thing going to on, glimpsed dimly past people's heads and through bottles.

I think there's a political consensus that there will have to be more swapping and mingling next time.

On the subject of which - London? Barcelona? Prague? (Wiltshire?)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 05:49:44 AM EST
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I'm happy to go to a meeting anywhere, so long as it's not before July (not last weekend of). Tho August may be expensive travel-wise.

Praque is good (dons beer goggles, mmmmm).

I think London should have a local meet but I think it's unfair on our continental cousins.

Barcelona, now we're cooking with gas.

How about Berlin ? We might be able to attract the Scandanavian contingent.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 06:11:10 AM EST
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I think London should have a local meet but I think it's unfair on our continental cousins.

I wouldn't worry about that. I'd expect to see meet-ups in other parts of Europe as well.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 07:42:05 AM EST
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You're right, we needed more musical chairs--and I was one of the guilty of sitting put, talking to the people nearby. I didn't see the time go by. Then you and Helen had to leave and I realized the afternoon was over... Duh! Hope we can catch up next time. ;)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 07:41:31 AM EST
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Me too...it was too easy to sit and relax in one spot...the chair was comfortable, the wine was flowing...oops, where did the time go???

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 07:45:10 AM EST
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I'm surprised (4.00 / 2)

J didn't have a chart listing table placings, with complex seat exchanges on the quarter hour, signalled by ritual sacrifices - L'Economiste Flambé

Geroff!

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 08:06:00 AM EST
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Lil thinks everyone should have been made to introduce themselves...that would have forced interaction (or more of it...)

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 12:27:57 PM EST
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Hey...tell Lilliana to set up a login and you can both post...looks like she's starting to get interested if she's telling you to comment for her!!

Helen, Barbara...we might have Lilliana on board sooner than she thinks!!

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

by Sam on Wed May 24th, 2006 at 04:34:37 PM EST
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"I'm with PeWi" also blogs, just not on ET...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed May 24th, 2006 at 05:29:43 PM EST
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I have to say there's another solution for those that travel. My one-on-one meetings with Nomad and then Oui when visiting Amsterdam covered a lot of ground.

It goes without saying that anyone visiting Finland should drop me a line. The Man from Lyons did just that and we had a super chatty lunch about OR - among many other subjects.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 08:00:56 AM EST
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