Meet the Geek
So this has been the week that the company I work for, Novell, puts on a conference known as BrainShare. This is a week long conference for hackers and IT folk to come out and attend a bunch of sessions and learn about where the company is headed and how we can help out. Each year, Novell sponsors an evening called "Meet the Experts" or as we like to call it "Meet the Geek." This is where us programmers all head to BrainShare to meet with the folk using our products and answer any questions they may have. Last night was Meet the Geek so I was called on to show up.
The best part about this was the food...man it was good! We had five different buffets each with different foods. The first was the meat buffet with buffalo sausage, rattlesnake and rabbit sausage, duck sausage, london broil, sourdough bread and the best part was the BBQ sauce. Have you seen one of those chocolate fountains? Like this
Now take this fountain and don't fill it with chocolate, but rather fill it with BBQ sauce...yeah, that was the meat buffet!
Then we had the sandwich buffet with eight foot hoagies in meat and veggie varieties along with these fantastic thick potato chips and a spicy minestrone soup. Just down from this buffet was the mushroom buffet. They took a variety of mushrooms, sauteed them with oil and butter and onion and garlic and cheese then served them to you with garlic sauce and hot sauce as condiments. MMM...dragon breath!
On the other side of the area they had chicken drumsticks in a great sauce and potato cakes. Then they had the ice cream buffet. This was some premium vanilla ice cream and to put over it they were sauteeing bannanas, peaches, butter and sugar. When I say sautee it isn't in a 12" pan on a cooktop either...this pan was easily 4' across! Then you had caramel or fudge to go over the top of the whole thing.
Needless to say, the food made a great impression on me!
In four hours of being there I only had three customers come over. Two were external customers just telling us what a great job we're doing and one was a Novell guy with a question that we were able to help.
But the food was good!
The best part about this was the food...man it was good! We had five different buffets each with different foods. The first was the meat buffet with buffalo sausage, rattlesnake and rabbit sausage, duck sausage, london broil, sourdough bread and the best part was the BBQ sauce. Have you seen one of those chocolate fountains? Like this
Now take this fountain and don't fill it with chocolate, but rather fill it with BBQ sauce...yeah, that was the meat buffet!Then we had the sandwich buffet with eight foot hoagies in meat and veggie varieties along with these fantastic thick potato chips and a spicy minestrone soup. Just down from this buffet was the mushroom buffet. They took a variety of mushrooms, sauteed them with oil and butter and onion and garlic and cheese then served them to you with garlic sauce and hot sauce as condiments. MMM...dragon breath!
On the other side of the area they had chicken drumsticks in a great sauce and potato cakes. Then they had the ice cream buffet. This was some premium vanilla ice cream and to put over it they were sauteeing bannanas, peaches, butter and sugar. When I say sautee it isn't in a 12" pan on a cooktop either...this pan was easily 4' across! Then you had caramel or fudge to go over the top of the whole thing.
Needless to say, the food made a great impression on me!
In four hours of being there I only had three customers come over. Two were external customers just telling us what a great job we're doing and one was a Novell guy with a question that we were able to help.
But the food was good!
posted by Pastor Tom at 8:59 AM
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