Delete this message now - Zopistas are fun people. Really. - On the average, size of laptop/PDA is inversely proportional to hair length. - DC would be the first company to go down in history, where employees pay the company to let them work. - IPC9 will be IZC1 with a python track. - Eric Raymond should give up, or even better offer his self assigned role to Paul Everitt. - Anybody on this list who is over 30 and has never heard of Alice should be sad. - Rollercoaster effects can be simulated in a conference by scheduling Jim Fulton's acquisition algebra talk before Randy Pausch's Alice talk. - StructuredText should become part of the standard python distribution. - Taking a mechanical camera at an IPC conference is *not* a good idea. And make sure you take along a Palm Pilot so you can beam things around. If you do need to write a phone number or an email address on paper, make sure you hide well while doing it. - Enough Pavlos