Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!slcs.slb.com!jjhnsn From: jjhnsn@slcs.slb.com (James Lee Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: W91 USENIX in retrospect Message-ID: <1991Jan29.040212.21664@slcs.slb.com> Date: 29 Jan 91 04:02:12 GMT References: <26879@ucsd.Edu> <1991Jan28.214313.29284@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Sender: news@slcs.slb.com (God of Tripe and Drivel) Organization: Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In article <1991Jan28.214313.29284@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Steve DeJarnett) writes: >In article <26879@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes: >>1. IBM research. Fantastic; > ... >>Unfortunately, there were no dark beers. > > So noted. We only specified "imported beers only" to the hotel, which >they took to mean the Heineken, Corona, and the other one (whose name escapes >me at the moment). I know we've already mentioned that to the suite organizer, >but we'll make sure we're more explicit when we specify "imported beers" next >time. I suspect people would have enjoyed trying Shiner Bock, a good Texas beer. Unfortunately, I'm not sure you can get Shiner beer in Dallas :-) jj -- "I like black boxes; I hate black magic." James Lee Johnson Schlumberger Lab for Computer Science Austin, Texas Internet: jjhnsn@slcs.slb.com SINet: slcs::johnson UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!slcs.slb.com!jjhnsn