Pre SIGIST Revolution meeting (pub, food, banter)

Well, in truth it was more of a pre-SIGIST meet in the pub and and have a few beers and something to eat.

Michael grilled us on a few testing perspectives that James and he had played with a while ago, stumped us frankly. Rob was up for the challenge, I just tried to look witty and Anand was being far too sensible. My attempt to fix that with a whole pint of beer instead of a half only had a mild affect.

At the pub quiz we frankly rocked but the bar staff member who was running the quiz was struggling to even pronounce some of the words!

Michael seemed to understand what the heck he was talking about but at one point we realised answers were written out of sync, I resolved this by cheating and looking at others answer sheets ;p Sadly we didn't win.

10.00pm rolled around and I headed out for home via the joy of London Underground.

Looking forward to the fun of SIGIST tomorrow, get ready to be challenged!

Mark.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Crowther on June 16, 2009 at 11:24pm

Just found another photo... this one looks like a 'caption competition entry'. Random prize of some random sort for the best caption :)

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Permalink Reply by Rosie Sherry on June 16, 2009 at 11:36pm: Sad to have missed it...one day...

Who is who in the photos?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark Crowther on June 17, 2009 at 8:02pm: Picture 1: Anand Ramdeo, Rob Lambert , Rob's boss(?)
Picture 2: Rob's Boss, Umm...American Lady (Joan?), Steve Reid (SIGIST), Michael Bolton
Picture 3: Rob Lambert, Rob's boss(?), Dorothy

Michael Bolton was of course the star of the show, the person I think is Joan has presented a number of times at the STAREast and West conferences and Dorothy was also encouraging us to go the the STAR conferences.

Rob Lambert set up the 'Testing Revolution UK South' group here, Anand works with Komal on www.testinggeek.com and has done a number of presentations at SIGIST centered around Selenium.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Bolton on June 20, 2009 at 7:54pm: "Joan" is Fiona Charles. "Rob's Boss" is Anthony Gardiner. "Steve Reid" is actually Stephen Allot.

---Michael B.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phil kirkham on June 21, 2009 at 8:26am: so how many beers did Mark have ???; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Michael Bolton on June 22, 2009 at 6:53am: I had enough that Stephen Allott's name suddenly lost the second T.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Crowther on June 17, 2009 at 8:16pm: Michael Bolton at the June SIGIST; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mark Crowther on June 19, 2009 at 8:15pm: For those that don't know - once you attend a SIGiST meeting you can borrow from the library that is kept there - for free.
http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/librarylist.pdf
Crazy eh?

If you're an author you can get 100 Karma Points for donating 2 or 3 books to the library. No really ;]

Just remember when you borrow a book you're meant to return it by the next SIGiST or you lose 100 Karma Points and fail to level up.; ▶ Reply to This