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Never believe a German when he tells you he can drink you under the table. Yesterday morning at the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in SF, the appropriately named Conference Fonzerelli noticed the wunderbar German head of Sun-ified MySQL wasn't there in time for his first talk. Fortunately, it was a panel affair, and even the world's second space tourist landed in time to make it (Mark Shuttleworth). Marten Mickos, however, was evidently too hung over to make an appearance. You'd be hung over too, if you'd just landed in a country where your wallet's contents is increasing in value at a rate of 10 cents a minute!
Poor Marten must have realized too late that American beer is every bit as strong as German beer. Sometimes stronger. As for Shuttleworth and Updegrove and Zachary and Wasserman and Microsoft's legal council Brad Smith... They all mingled amongst bagged lunches and Zimbra-lovers. Bonus points to SteelEye's James Bottomley, who sported the nifty bow tie and Harpo hair ensemble.
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Ha! Too bad that Marten is from Finland, not Germany and appropriately prefers Vodka to Beer -- although sadly this week he's been skol-ing mostly with TheraFlu.
Luckily, MySQL's Zack Urlocker was able to take his place on the OSBC panel.
Mårten Gustaf Mickos [en.wikipedia.org] is citizen of Finland who was running a company based in Uppsala, Sweden [en.wikipedia.org] . I suppose that makes him a German if you were raised in a certain country and don't bother to use your computer...
Jason Calcanis believes that hangovers are a sign of weakness and lack of loyalty.
Dude,
is this what passes for content on ValleyWag these days? Jeez, you may as well report what Sergey and Larry had for breakfast or what time Robert Scoble takes a dump. But you probably couldn't get that right either. Marten missed the panel because he had the flu. I don't think he's ever been hung over.
--Zack
But American beer, unlike German beer, is poisonous.
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