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THE BEST DAC PARTY This year, the DAC party that got the most praise was
the Synopsys "House Of Blues" party in the French Quarter. Three very
large rooms of free booze, free food, Madi Gras dancers, and Bo Diddly
singing the blues. (A number of people expected Aart to jump on stage at
any moment because he's a bass guitar blues player. Didn't happen, tho.)
"Our party was on the 4th floor. They came up the elevator and
plastered 'Powered By Exemplar' stickers all over the inside of
the elevator. Then they tried to bribe the wait-staff to wear
their Exemplar shirts. When security chased them out, the Exemplar
people threw the shirts and extra stickers at the guards and ran
laughing. It was just like a fraternity raid on a rival frat."
- Synplicity founder Ken McElvain
"Uh... No names, John. Just a story I know you'd like. We went to
the Denali party at the balcony at the Tricou House on Bourbon
Street. Lots of drinking and loud music. I spent a good part of
the night on the balcony trying to get women on the street below to
flash for my beads. It only worked a two times. It was a good party
until I heard the next morning that there was a live webcam aimed at
the balcony. My wife is an ex-Netscape employee. I still don't know
if she watched me from California that night or not. I can't really
ask her can I? <laughing> Bye."
- an anon phonecall. Tricou's is at http://www.711bourbon.com
I also heard that the Simplex riverboat party got good but limited
reviews by customers because it was too hard to get a ticket or crash.
Boat parties are like that. "Oh, I was just swiming by... mind if I
join you?"
- John Cooley
the ESNUG guy
P.S. If you agree/disagree/have-violent-reactions with anything in this
trip report, please feel free to send me a reply! I love reader feedback!
P.P.S. The 'Mike Santarini' DAC'99 photos are at http://www.deepchip.com
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