[dundee] Congratulations to TayLUG members graduating at Abertay today

[Arron M Finnon]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:14:11 +0100
Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:


Congrats on passing the test (101 surviving uni life for 4 years),
we're all very proud.  

As for graduating to grey beard/hair status i believe you are required
to install something other than Ubuntu and start arguments with other
members with regards to why your distro is far better than anyone
else's.  

In addition to being technically turned on by some random
uber-geek stuff, like VoIP/SIP (big andrew passed with distinction on
both counts), Mobile Platforms, DB's, or weird and wondeful programming
languages.  The list is not exhaustive but if you can confuse and bore
and existing grey-elder your in.  

Of course you can also prove your beardy/hairyness by boring the whole
society with a lovely talk on something truly mind blowing; such as
the GPL, or why open source software is more secure than proprietary
software, or why Postgres is far better than MySQL, i think we all get
the drift.  

They are members who have already shoed themselves in

My 2 pence worth, which i think we'll all agree i've over charged you
with. 

> > I'm sure after a certain age mother nature intervenes and lets us
> > all grow a beard.
> > 
> > I would of course be expecting some kind of UAD/TayLUG graduation
> >  ceremony.. i've had one, and now im greedy. It's another event we
> > could threaten to dress Tim up in that penguin suit...
> > 
> 
> Noooo, not...the...penguin.......the horror! 
> 
> An event is quite a good idea, graduating to the "Winter Blondes"
> should have some kind of ceremony: perhaps with a certificate for a
> stair-lift or Zimmer frame.
> 
> 
> > On 12 July 2010 09:07, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Whoops - apologies all round.
> > >
> > > > On 11 July 2010 12:00, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Congratulations to you all - hope you've all got over the
> > > > > hangovers.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does graduation mean that you move from The Linux Society to
> > > > > become Greybeard-
> > > > > Tayluggers? ho ho.
> > > >
> > > > Don't you mean Greyhaired-Tayluggers, two of our members can't
> > > > grow
> > >
> > > beards,
> > >
> > > > just a reminder that both sexes use Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Gordon
> 
> 



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