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• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Oh I know that Wendy, but you were extremely kind and ludicrously generous and you need thanking. So... THANKS! And yes, we have to let good old Barbie still feel useful... :P...
• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  That's absolutely fair enough and I respect your preference, Abigail....
• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Oh Wendy I'm a terrible person, you should definitely have been on my thank you list. Blame tiredness... I don't know what you mean though, I'm butch as fuck. The piece of paper is a work of genius :D...
• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Thank you for everything Ruth!...
• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Ah it was brilliant! I will have a ton of fun going through it all again :)...
• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Ah HECK...
• Posted My First Perl Conference to Sam

  What a dull title. Anyway. This was intended to just be an account of my experience at TPCiG, but quickly developed into an tl;dr life story. Sorry about that, everyone. Sorry.

  I had dreamed of attending YAPC/TPC ever since I discovered what an amazing community surrounded Perl. This year,…

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• tinita commented on My First Perl Conference

  Thanks Sam for the feedback! I thought I had screwed up my talk because I only showed half of what I wanted to show ;-)
  Good to hear it was still useful.

• Wendy commented on My First Perl Conference

  Excellent blog, thanks!

  I now know I did not hug you enough, and did not chat with you enough. I thought you were damn butch and now I see you just were posing. Well done... And it was very nice meeting you and playing Fluxx against you.

  If you want, I can send you the file "Need a piece of paper - It is free - It can be very useful.odt". I had fun looking from afar how people reacted to the thing. Hehe.

• dha commented on My First Perl Conference

  I was not able to make it over for the conference, so I'm enjoying people's recaps. It's great to see yours and hear the experiences of someone new to this - keeps me from getting jaded. :-)

  Maybe we'll meet next year. In any case, congratulations, you've joined a pretty great group of people.

• Abigail commented on My First Perl Conference

  Some of us actually care about their privacy. I rather not have any images (moving or still) of me floating around on the internet.

• Wendy commented on My First Perl Conference

  I didn't write my reaction to provoke a thanks by you. Just wanted to let you know that I saw you, like who you are, hugged you, and did not notice you needed more hugs, and maybe needed some more introductions to the people I know well, but you had Barbie doing that already. Butch as hell, just like me, and still soft inside. :-)