What Are You Doing Right Now
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Preparing for the epic drive and already very happy to be on vacation!! It's been a year since I had more than a day off. This is great.
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On the phone with Bradbury Co. with a problem on our roll forming line...just saying...this line's main system runs on DOS with an interface with an XP machine and they have no plans to get off of XP...fun times...
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Just got to work. Settling in for the day.
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Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
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@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Now I haz a sad...
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@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
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y'all are swinging by to pick me up right?
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@Hubtech said:
y'all are swinging by to pick me up right?
Are you actually riding with them?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.
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@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.
You should have come on your own! Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!
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@ajstringham said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.
You should have come on your own! Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!
Haha I was thinking about it, but I only do IT on the side (home/test stuff) so everyone would be like "Whyyyy is Matt (purchasing) following us to the IT conference"?
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@MattKing said:
@ajstringham said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.
You should have come on your own! Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!
Haha I was thinking about it, but I only do IT on the side (home/test stuff) so everyone would be like "Whyyyy is Matt (purchasing) following us to the IT conference"?
So come as an IT Pro and not as a GG. You'll make your money back (not now but six months ago) on the ticket price in swag, easily!
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What kind of swag are you getting that's worth $3-400?
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@ajstringham said:
@MattKing said:
@ajstringham said:
@MattKing said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
Cappuccino and news, starting off the day.
Speaking of news I will NOT be at SW this year, say hi to the other Monkeys for me!
Will do. Sorry that we won't be seeing you. Maybe the next ML event!!
Of course, show some love to the Houston peeps; or a short drive to Dallas either way.
You should have come on your own! Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!
Haha I was thinking about it, but I only do IT on the side (home/test stuff) so everyone would be like "Whyyyy is Matt (purchasing) following us to the IT conference"?
So come as an IT Pro and not as a GG. You'll make your money back (not now but six months ago) on the ticket price in swag, easily!
Haha I cannot unfortunately, what happens when someone needs a bunch of equipment we don't have in stock?! Or a customer replacement of a 10-year old IBM harddrive with specific firmware that hasen't been seen since the Apple II era?
These are the reasons I have to be on post here at the Monkey.
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@Dashrender said:
What kind of swag are you getting that's worth $3-400?
It's not any one item. I walked away from SW last year with:
13 t-shirts ($15 each if you bought them)
Logitech K350 ($60 retail)
Logitech M705 ($40 retail)
Tons of miscellaneous little stuff (~$50-75 in stuff)
Plantronics Backbeat GO 2 ($130 retail)
Plantronics RIG ($100 retail)Even not counting the miscellaneous items, as that's subjective, the rest is over $500 in stuff. I paid $199 for my ticket as I got it right after SW Austin 2012. So, even though I had to pay to fly down and room down there, I still made out pretty good.
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the shirts aren't really worth anything (at least not to most as they would never buy them in the first place)
The rest - wow.. how did you walk out with two things from Logitech?
I'm guessing you were outside the norm on the stuff you acquired.
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@Dashrender said:
the shirts aren't really worth anything (at least not to most as they would never buy them in the first place)
The rest - wow.. how did you walk out with two things from Logitech?
I'm guessing you were outside the norm on the stuff you acquired.
The two Logitech devices I was just given by Micro something or other. They had a race and I showed up at the convention center at 6:30AM before anyone else was there. The vendor was setting up, I did the race, and he was kind to me for being the first Spicehead to do the race (plug in some RAM and an SSD to the motherboard). Most didn't get that. I was just in the right place at the right time.
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The Plantronics Backbeat GO 2 I was just given because they liked me, and the RIG I was given for participating in their LoL contest. You used it in the contest and at the end you got to keep it. It was sweet! I also got to do that because they liked me.
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As far as the t-shirts go, yeah. Maybe you'd never buy them. But still, at an average of $15/shirt if you did, 13 t-shirts is a lot.
