For about a month and a half now, I've been charged with organizing a department happy hour every Friday. You'd be surprised at how hard it is to get people to come out and drink a few beers. The following is my latest effort at rallying people. Despite of it being a masterpiece (in my not very humble opinion), it still only drew 4 people, myself included. And one of the other 3 is my German officemate, who really doesn't need any encouragement at all to come out and drink...
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:52:35 -0700
From: "Shan Shan Huang"
To: XXXXXX
Subject: Happy Hour -- Call to arms!
AP recently reported that 80% of Americans between ages 16-64 do not believe in the existence of "Computer Scientists". When asked why, the #1 reason for their lack of faith is that they've only heard of these "Computer Scientists", but have never seen one.
Is this the kind of world you want our children to grow up in?!? A world devoid of values, references, or reference values? A world where garbage collection is a dead-end job with no career advancement options? A world where Lisp is just a speech impediment, and Smalltalk is something you do before getting into deep conversations
about the embodiment of the meaning of life in Impressionist paintings???
Restore the faith in "Computer Scientists"! Let yourselves be seen!
Organizational meeting:
Time: 6:00pm
Place: Eugene City Brewing Company. 844 Olive St.
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Shan Shan Huang
http://www.freeflygeek.com
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