Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: get-together at USENIX Message-ID: <5569@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 13:31:08 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.5569 Posted: Fri Jul 22 13:31:08 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 00:22:36 EDT Distribution: net.singles Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 40 Well, I was waiting for Greg Woods to put in a note about the net.singles get-together at the USENIX conference I don't see one from this site. So here is my report: Greg Woods agreed to hold a net.singles get-together in his room at the Hilton. I trooped up to Greg's with a small gang of friends, about 7 pm. Others arrived in singles & groups, not long afterwards. There were about 15 or so of us (my estimate -- I didn't count at the time). There were all of 3 women (sounds like net.singles, doesn't it??). We just sat about and discussed this and that and drank the wine (after someone found a corkscrew!!). The talk was mostly along the net.singles lines i.e. how to meet, feminist issues, a bit of what makes men/women attractive. I heard a bit of technical talk about computers going on, for a short while. A couple of the men went off into a discussion about attitudes to women and had to give it up because they agreed with each other about everything! The weird thing that happened was that Jeff Schwab (sorry if that spelling is wrong Jeff, I'm doing it from memory) who suggested, independently of Greg, that we have a net.singles get-together, called Greg to see what room the affair was being held in and found he was next door!! They opened their inter-connecting doors and we had two rooms to wander in. There were some free movies we all wanted to see, so after a couple of hours we went off, en masse, to see them, discussions still going on in the elevator & taxi, as we went. Anyway, I enjoyed meeting some of the people I had been corresponding with. It should happen at every USENIX!! --Judy McMullan ...!watmath!jamcmullan