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Protest outside JavaOne (Moscone Center; San Francisco)
Tra la la la boom de YAY! This was awesome! Thanks oh Cacophony folks! Sweetpea and I geared up at office max with a couple of posters, spent a little while talking about what we'd put on the boards, both changed our minds at the last moment, and hastily scrawled stuff out about 40 minutes before heading to the Moscone center. I decided to do a sandwichboard of sorts, stringing together the two posterboard "boards" with plastic shopping bags. They held pretty well, but it was a bit too windy most of the time, and I wound up holding one sign or the other out.
We decided to hit a parking garage because parking was going to be impossible and were still ten minutes late... but that was fine. Despite some trepidation, turnout was actually quite good (could have been more, less would have been bad...). We happily joined the throng of folks with signs, and spent a while standing in one basic area.
More people slowly joined and the group became somewhat antsy. We started wandering around the area, up on sidewalk, dodging buses and security-type-folks (they overall weren't too happy with us, but weren't TOO unhappy with us either -- they kept telling us where we couldn't stand; which seemed to be just about anywhere... but if we kept moving it was allright).
A yellow haired freak accosted me (not in a bad way) and we talked for a bit; exchanged business cards (well, I don't have any recent ones, but I gave him my email on his card). That got written up in Salon --
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While most conference-goers reacted to the spectacle with disbelief or shy smiles, one tried to use it as a way to make a drug connection. One demonstrator, a blue-haired waif with half his mustache and beard inexplicably shaved off, wore a signboard promising: "Will code for drugs." So, a fluorescent-yellow-haired JavaOne-goer from Vancouver, British Columbia, figured this might be a good person to hit up for local drug connections. But he came away with nada, muttering: "Fucking Americans!" |
While I'm at it, Jon Ross took some photos as well. :) And the anonymous yellow-haired dude had this to say on the whole thing.
