Well, we had the big blow-out JavaOne After Dark party tonight.
It was a spectacular concert featuring the Grammy award-winning band Train.
It was at the Warfield theater in San Francisco. Which is directly next door to..
a strip club. I kid you not. I nearly got hit by a bus trying to take this picture to prove it.
so, i'm picking up on a theme this year... Scott in Playboy (you gotta watch the keynote replay to figure that out), JavaOne After Dark next door to a strip joint... what is this all about? is there some whole different kind of open source that i don't know about?
anyway.... We're talking about JavaOne After Dark here... but before we get into that i need to come clean... i am the white, suburban working mother of three kids ages 6, 3 and 1. i have not been to a rock concert in literally ten years. at least. this was a cultural experience for me...so forgive me if some of my commentary here is colored by my perspective. i sincerely do not intend to be "old."
they were rocking...even i new that....
this guy... he had way too many tattoos... why did he have to go and get the one on his neck? i mean is it really so necessary to have a tattoo on your neck?
this guy played awesome guitar. he was dripping in sweat. totally getting into it.
and everybody was having loads of fun!
dancing, singing, having a good time!
everyone who's anyone was there...
including some of the hardest working people at Sun Microsystems. (editor's note: i am a total champ for running pictures where i look so goofy but other people look good. it is evidence of my benevolent nature. and my supreme confidence.)
it was fun. lots of fun.
so here's the deal... lots of my pics didn't come out so good... so if anybody has any they want me to post, just send them to me using the following formula: first.last@sun.com. my firstname is mary. my lastname is smaragdis.
and one last thing... we did the big art auction at JavaOne After Dark. huge success. we're going to do big coverage on that tomorrow... so stay tuned.
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