<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Hi everyone,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Save the date! The evening of Wed 16 July 2008, Damian Conway, Perl expert extraordinaire, Open Source luminary, and long-time friend of the Toronto Perl Mongers, will deliver -- free and to the public -- one of his signature tour-de-force completely insane talks that is 1/3 high-end IT, 1/3 showmanship and 1/3 peyote-fuelled hallucination. Here are the details:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Talk:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">"Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">This will be the world premiere of the talk.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Time: 6:30pm - 9pm</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 40 St. George Street (w. side of street, just north of College Ave</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">.<br>
Room # BA 1160</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.052328,95.009766&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659986,-79.396745&spn=0.004137,0.011598&z=17&iwloc=addr">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+40+St.+George+Street,+Toronto&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.052328,95.009766&ie=UTF8&ll=43.659986,-79.396745&spn=0.004137,0.011598&z=17&iwloc=addr</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">As I have done the past 4 times Damian has come to Toronto to give talks I will take up a collection. This is to help defray expenses and to provide Damian with an honorarium for the talk. Donations are completely voluntary. If you feel motivated and/or in the right place financially to make a donation please get in touch with me or visit the Paypal links at <a href="http://hew.ca/">http://hew.ca/</a>. The Toronto Perl Mongers and the other groups who have attended Damian's talks have always been incredibly generous in supporting Damian whenever he has visited in the past and both he and I thank everyone for all the support he has received over the years.</span><br
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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> - Richard</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">PS For those of you who don't know Damian, here is some background info on him. He's _not_ just a Perl hacker. If you're into IT in any way, shape or form prepare to have your mind blown...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html">http://damian.conway.org/About_us//Bio_formal.html</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1">http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=damian+conway&type=1</a> -- I like the "... is my personal savior" one</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710">http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/speaker/4710</a> -- we are getting his OSCON 2008 keynote delivered here first!</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html">http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail880.html</a> -- to hear one of his previous OSCON keynote talks (although this talk, as is the case with all his talks, is really enhanced by the slideshow that goes along with it)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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