So, CanJam 2010. Like all others that have come before, this was a blast and big kudos to the team that pulled it off - Jim, Ryan, Bryan, Mike, Chris. As usual I'm sad it's over but it was a smashing time from start to finish. So many things to recap and I don't have time to process pics until after I get back home (which will be tomorrow night, 6/7), and the pics include all sorts of good stuff - some gear (which I'll post over at HF), and pics of random unkempt people in suspicious poses (those of course will be posted here). It was great to see old faces and lots of new ones, even if only briefly.

Things I learned at CJ 2010:

- Birgir really does look like an Icelandic viking, and he can lift up anyone like a bag of potatoes to throw them halfway across the room. Definitely the kind of guy you want on your side in a fight.

- Doug/Duggie/Duggeh is as cool in person as his online persona makes him out to be, though he can't do an American accent.

- The Gilmore/Birgir T2 amp is the hottest headphone amp that has ever existed on the planet.

- Tyll's headphone measurement system is the slickest thing that's ever been created.

- The Michael Arnopol Trio is damn good and man do they have that musician-camaraderie intensity thing going.

- The Monkey is really 6'2".

- Not only can Birgir pick up people, but so can Reks (but not quite as successfully). I even had the pleasure of being picked up by Reks. It was:

- Putting alcohol into Justin (mypasswordis, not Wilson) results in incoherent babbling about babies, tumors, babies w/ tumors, and how the BP oil spill situation could probably be rectified by -==-.

- Just about anyone will take a swig from a vodka/cranberry juice mix, even if the mix is disproportionate with the vodka on top and the juice on bottom.

- Justin Wilson secretly carries at least one bottle of whisky to CanJams and often places nuts on his vendor table for eating consumption.

- HC-ers will always clean up at the raffles at CanJam. It's just a given at this point.

More in about 1.5 days from now (or maybe sooner, we'll see).

nice writeup. So who got 'tossed' furthest? I assume there was some kind of competition.

Back in LA, time for beddy bye. I was fairly hung over this morning. LOL, I think Al was worse off. Haha, damn that Cranberry colored Vodka.

I'm so glad I went earlier this year. Was a blast as usual. Of course, I'd even go if there were no gear.

-Ed

Corrections...

The diy T2 is not the hottest amp on the planet. The original is, by something like an additional 20C.

Justin wilsons bottle of booze came from me. The two of them killed it pretty quick. But he was not

willing to do another bottle.

I miss waking up and having Scotch for breakfast already.

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Things I learned at CJ 2010:

- Birgir really does look like an Icelandic viking, and he can lift up anyone like a bag of potatoes to throw them halfway across the room. Definitely the kind of guy you want on your side in a fight.

- Doug/Duggie/Duggeh is as cool in person as his online persona makes him out to be, though he can't do an [snip]

- HC-ers will always clean up at the raffles at CanJam. It's just a given at this point.

It's probably because HCers make up more than 50% of the attendees and buy 75% of the raffle tickets.

I'm so glad I went earlier this year. Was a blast as usual. Of course, I'd even go if there were no gear.

There was gear?

It's probably because HCers make up more than 50% of the attendees and buy 75% of the raffle tickets.

Just to get a sense of scale...... how many attendees were there exactly?

In lower hotel lobby, waiting for son to pick me up for a few day visit.

Amazing CanJam, Chicago! Big tip of the hat to the organizers - Jim, Ryan, Bryan, Mike, Chris, and kg.

Thank you everyone -see you next year.

Glad you guys/gals all had fun. My weekend ended up pretty much sucking, I had to go to Ashburn, VA for work on Friday and didn't get finished till Saturday afternoon. This was for a pretty sizable hardware install 2 full cabinets in a clients datacenter. Now this was supposed to be a job that the client was installing themselves, but nooo they waited till Thursday morning to tell us that their IT guy had quit two weeks ago and would need us to install it. Color me pissed/sad

Tkam, no worries. We set aside your member badge and should have a shirt for you. PM Jim your tshirt size and address and I am sure Jim can get that out to you.

Heh

i think i'm going to make a shirt for Pete Millet that says "I'm not DannyB." it would be printed in big clear letters.

Make me one that says "I don't support DannyB" while you're at it!

And one that says "I am DannyB" for me kthxbai.

Great meet, thanks to all the folks that made this happen and it was great meeting you all. And drinking a little bit. And getting a little bit of cervical cancer.

i think i'm going to make a shirt for Pete Millet that says "I'm not DannyB." it would be printed in big clear letters.

Nice.

I for one was rather confused by Jacob's rant at Pete but then again I didn't hear all of it. Instead we had to go and bust down some doors to hunt for Al....

I'm right now sitting at the Terminal E lobby at Logan and have to wait for at least 3 hours until I can check in. I think a trip doiwntown is in order.

What a coincidence, so was I.

I guess that makes 3 of us! I haven't experienced a rant like that since Gene at MOA

I don't remember shit, so I am not sure if I was even there. Somebody said Pete thought it was incredibly funny and was not offended (even though this is the second time Drunken Jacob has accosted him randomly at meets).

What can I say, Al, but I'm getting used to it. Gene broke me in well to handle just these kinds of situations gracefully!

I try to randomly accost everybody at least twice.

Teehee

What can I say, Al, but I'm getting used to it. Gene broke me in well to handle just these kinds of situations gracefully!

Trained by the best!

wait, we're not absolving head-case? shit... I was misinformed.

I talked to Pete, and he was laughing about it. I might have been the most confused of all, receiving four calls from Jacob while I was in bed, totally clueless about what was going on, as he vehemently tired to convince me about something having to do with democracy, oligarchies, abandonment, DannyB, luvdunhill to blame for it all at one point, and dissolving head-case based on the failures of all of the above and other things I understood even less.

I didn't even get the Al stories, and breaking glass stories (Matt as instigator, and I'm still shocked, Shelly) until the next day. We all knew Gene would try to break down at least one door post 3AM, so that was no surprise.

I did try to rescue Ed and Peter as they ran up and down my hallway (the avon lady quadrant) screaming Jude's name loudly over and over around 2AM, but that was a seemingly minor event as I have since learned.

If feel so guilty having dragged Shelly down to my level. But she does have a good arm, and even went for two after the first toss went all the way to some grassy, non-breaking area.

Oh, that kind of tossing! My bad, my mind is still a bit in the gutter.

If feel so guilty having dragged Shelly down to my level. But she does have a good arm, and even went for two after the first toss went all the way to some grassy, non-breaking area.

Yes, our Shelley turned out to be quite the Prof. Jeckell and Mrs. Hyde, no? I never would have suspected that she would have ended up being your first mate of havoc wreaking. Did she also have something to do with where you napped?

Edited June 7, 201016 yr by EdipisReks

Shelly was in the search party, so unless your Mrs. Hyde theory is even more accurate than you expected, I think not. And I prefer "napping" or "hiding from the Red Vodka" to your nomenclature, especially on an open internet forum.