T'was the night before DrupalCon and all through the city, not a hacker was typing, not even a key.
My vain attempts at a rhyme aside, many of the DrupalCon intended were in town already on Tuesday. So what do a bunch of computer geeks do in Barcelona, Spain? We went out to a sushi bar, of course. (I'm sure it makes sense somehow.) Some familiar faces were there, like most of Lullabot, along with various people I didn't know but have now agreed to call awesome.
After a few drinks the 'bots decided they were too good for us and got their own table. (We still love ya, guys!) The rest of us discovered what Spanish Yakisoba is like. (Thumbs up.) We also discussed topics relevant to Drupal, such as world politics, immigration, node rendering, and world domination.
The real fun started when chx showed up because, well, he's chx. He migrated between tables for a while, then when some of those present decided to go take in a show somewhere we decided to head back to the hotel since it was a long trip and we had to be up early.
Of course, chx still wanted to talk about the PHP 5 talk the next day so he came along. Back at the hotel we all broke out the laptops and geeked out for a while, then did a quick run through of the talk. Overall he didn't want to kill me, so I consider that a success. We then chatted about objects for way longer than planned, and chx showed off the SimpleTest automater he wrote oh, a day before. Things are getting interesting. :-) Finally he decided it was way too late, so wandered off toward home (via cab).
The highlight of the night, though, was when Wim, chx, and I were heading back to the hotel. Wim commented "I can't believe I'm walking between Crell and chx". We all laughed, because it wasn't that long ago that we were the same way. "OMG, that's chx and merlinofchaos!" "OMG, I"m having dinner with Dries!"
That's one of the great things about open source. It attracts people who are, by and large, open. We may be skilled coders or themers or software architects, but take us out to a sushi bar and we're just ordinary people who will gladly talk to you for hours about software, development, and American Football. There's very few ivory towers.