jim@hoptoad.uucp (Jim Joyce) (01/29/88)
Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore will have a hospitality suite at the Grand Kempenski Hotel in Dallas, site of the Usenix Winter Conference Meeting. Wine, soft drinks, cheese, books, and the occasional author are on hand from 4 - 7 pm, Monday through Thursday. We should have copies of the new Nutshell book on X-Windows, as well as copies of the PostScript books. Hope to see you there! -- e-mail: ...!{sun,lll-crg}!hoptoad!jim Snail: Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore 47 Potomac St SF, CA 94117 Bell: 415/626-7581
jaap@cwi.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) (02/01/88)
In article <3966@hoptoad.uucp> jim@hoptoad.uucp (Jim Joyce) writes: > > Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore will have a hospitality suite at the > Grand Kempenski Hotel in Dallas, site of the Usenix Winter > Conference Meeting. Wine, soft drinks, cheese, books, and the > occasional author are on hand from 4 - 7 pm, Monday through > ... etc. Yeah, according to my experience you will have all the books stacked up, serving the a bottle of wine since there happens to be a prospective client with a swiss army knife in sight, while the authors are eating the cheese--somewhere else. jaap
david@infopro.UUCP (David Fiedler) (02/03/88)
In article <406@sering.cwi.nl>, jaap@cwi.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes: > In article <3966@hoptoad.uucp> jim@hoptoad.uucp (Jim Joyce) writes: > > > > Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore will have a hospitality suite at the > > Grand Kempenski Hotel in Dallas, site of the Usenix Winter > > Conference Meeting. Wine, soft drinks, cheese, books, and the > > occasional author are on hand from 4 - 7 pm, Monday through > > ... etc. > > Yeah, according to my experience you will have all the books stacked > up, serving the a bottle of wine since there happens to be a > prospective client with a swiss army knife in sight, while the > authors are eating the cheese--somewhere else. Hey, I'm an author, and if I *don't* make it to Jim's annual bash (which is, by this time, a "don't miss" classic of Usenix), I miss out on talking to a lot of interesting people, GOOD (or at least decent) wine, and *everybody* gets cheese. If Jim were a super-capitalist creep the way you're implying, he'd have a big booth at Uniforum with dancing girls. Nobody at any of Jim Joyce's *hospitality* suites (he knows what the word means) has ever been turned away or declined food or fun because they weren't a "paying customer". Where else do you expect to meet truly interesting people? At some of the "big company" suites and such, you can expect to be *ignored* if you're not a big customer, member of the press, or potential employee. -- David Fiedler {ames,attmail,hplabs,ihnp4,pyramid,ucdavis}!infopro!david USMail: InfoPro Systems, PO Box 220, Rescue CA 95672 Phone: (916) 677-5870 "Trust me. I know what I'm doing."