It's somewhere around 10am and I'm currently sitting in a huge sports hall in Bingen, Germany surrounded by 1500 like-minded geeks at BreakPoint 06 - one of the largest demo scene parties in Europe. Sleep is minimal, booze is maximal and to be honest, I'd hate to have the electricity bill at the end of this event :)
btw, the "demo scene" (for those not in the know) is a computing sub-culture which revolves around the production of short programs usually for the purpose of displaying the creators technical skill - and some of the folks have amazing levels of technical skill (and also no life whatsoever!).
If you've never been to a scene party I can totally recommend it, it's hot, tiring, the food is abysmal, the noise levels are insane and it's great fun :)
Over the last 24 hours I have discovered an interesting fact about JagerMeister - it's a subtle blend of 30+ spices which makes it a health drink, however drinking an entire bottle of the stuff didn't make me feel as healthy as I thought it would so it's probably best to get another one in today, just to see if the last one was defective in some way.
And now ... time for some quality German sausage ...
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