i'm sitting in our hotel room (again) waiting for the sleeping princesses to awake. there's pretty much a constant "stream" (can't think of a better word) of horn-honking coming from brazil fans outside.
last night was pretty fun. after the keynote where nat failed to win the programming with qt book from o'reilly, we ate at e18hteen ("life's too short to drink bad wine!" -- the owner) - a trendy-ish restaurant somewhere in ottawa. it was good, i didn't order nearly as much as everyone else but was full afterwards anyway. sadly the dj didn't spin whilst we were there.
after that we headed to the black thorn for the party. we hung out there for a while talking to some people who were using the rc-installer (!!!) code for installing their product. much pain saved in using the nasty rpm binary-incompatible workarounds. i also discovered i wasn't the only one thinking that zab did kt - sammy had been duped too.
then nat and i decided to try to find the place dave ralph was spinning at. most of the conversations went something like this:
nat: hey, do you know where the dave ralph show is?
them: dave who?
we eventually gave up and just hung out with some people at like a youth hostel or something. they gave us some canadian flags. they seemed like nice people, and said a couple of people from the conference were staying there.
nat went back to the hotel and i went back to the black thorn and after a bit came back with joe. soon after we got back, some pizza arrived. we think nat ordered it before he went to sleep, but we're not sure. it may have been the pizza we ordered the night before which never arrived.
at least i learned how to spell "ottawa" finally. also, i was promised riots.
for lunch i had an omlette at some place with joe and nat. there was a big piece of eggshell in it, which sucked. i would have said something about it but just before that the table next to us left without paying and i felt bad for the waitress.
i had dinner in the north end with blizzard, shona, alex, nat, joe, taylor, ryan, and dr. pat. it was quite tasty although a bit expensive.