From: japecan_at_comcast.net
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 14:36:13 PDT
Impression of a first time SNUG meeting arrivee. Left Pleasant Hill California
about 1900 arriving in Palo Alto's Printer Inc. Cafe arriving about 2000
thinking what am I doing here! All these people are way above my head but I
proceeded to park and went in. I observed a group of people with a few Newtons
laid out on the table and approached them and said "is this the SNUG meeting?
and I'm Robert Serna aka. japecan_at_comcast.net and please don't intimidate me"
Then I got introduced to Flash (who wrote Register for N0S 1.x), Glen (author
of NewtPaint, not so intimidating huh!!!!) Peter,Greg,Dave and Randeep all who
has been members of SNUG from conception! What a friendly group of people,
made me feel right at home. Then meet Adam and C.J. (who came in with the
cracked screen). I also gave away sealed copies of Silicon Casino (and the
leftover copies for Woo's group in Los Angeles!) C.J. needed to borrow a flash
card so I went to my car and broke my key trying to get in (yes that's my key
in the picture) thank goodness for magnetic key holders or I would of been
stuck 62 miles away!!! Adam was programming and I was so flabbergasted that he
was just keying away on Greg's laptop trying, I mean writing a script for
C.J.! Then Woo comes in after getting directions from Adam. He's the man that
uses all his Newtons like he has said and shared alot of his experiences. The
coffee shop was closing at 2230 so we had the group go outside to the bus bench
while listing to music that was provided by the local coffee shop musicians.
Woo started to unpack his bag and laid out all his Newtons, flashcard and etc
on the bench and lo and behold the street cleaning truck was out so a few of us
stepped in front of the bench just incase he started to spray but was kind
enough to see us and stayed cleared of the bench. Woo started to open his
Newton up with his trusty swiss army knife right their on the park bench! This
man is amazing as we all looked in awe of this person. He showed us the inner
of the Newton with Ser-001 card and accelerated board in place, yes he has a
ser-001 in all his Newtons. Everybody seemed to be leaving about 2300 and I
finally left at 0001 after saying goodnight to Woo, I have to get up @0530 to
go to Magic Mountain the next day. When I got home about 0100 I noticed that
my bag was kinda heavy so I check it out and guess what? I have one of Woo's
Newton! I called him up and he said thank goodness. All in all I really had a
nice time made friends and received an acclerated Newton( just kidding Woo I'm
sending it out tomorrow,.) and can't wait for the next one. I really think
that everyone should had this experience and don't worry about the over my head
phrase.........
Robert M. Serna
japecan_at_comcast.net
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