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i went to a gllug (greater london linux users group) social meeting last night at chimes of pimlico. marginally interesting. i was able to put the “drinking to make people more interesting” theory into affect. it appears to work. although, they didn’t seem to be that bad anyway. 5 of the 9 (that i know) were not from london and 4 of those were not from england. we were actually sitting at a table and eating. i was able to get to try real english mead (fermented honey). it’s very sweet. smells a lot worse than it tastes. it kind of spoiled it for me that it was in something similar to a wine bottle. i always associate mead with an image of burly medieval fat guys drinking from a ceramic jug with wood or metal mugs. maybe that’s just me. i also tried apple and pear cidars. less sweet. the apple was better.

i had grilled halibut. it was ok. i think i should have gone for the lamb shank with mash. it looked much better.
i’ve got to start learning to pick my seats more carefully.

thursday i’m going to a presentation meeting they’re having which will have a company called filmlight talking about how they use linux for a video cluster architecture for film grading or something.

i normally will order papa john’s or rocky’s (mostly rocky’s) when in birmingham. however, the papa john’s here sucked. however, the pizza hut deep pan is actually pretty good. a bit greasy though. even better, it was 18 minutes from phone to delivery. nice. of course, the pizza hut is only about 3 blocks away (practically next door to the papa john’s). all the local pizza places i’ve tried suck. thin crust, crap sauce and not much cheese. general thumbs down for independent pizza places in the neighborhood.