I went to the slashdot's 10 year party in Palo Alto, CA tonight. The smaller the user number that you have, the more l33t you are. It struck me as an odd criterion by which to be judged. I read stuff on the web site sometimes and do not have a number. For such an important web site, the number of people at the party was much lower than I expected.

I was very apprehensive about going to the party and happened to hear about it from my avomies who assumed I would not be interested in it. To his benefit, normally he would have been correct in thinking that. However, having had just been to She's Geeky, I very much wanted to juxtapose a bunch of guys together with what I had experienced earlier this week. I am glad that I went to the slashdot party. I ended up talking to this cool guy about human languages and it is also worth noting that the minute we started talking, two other men left the conversation. Not sure what was going on there, but hello, I am a woman and you actually can talk to me. Some people just need to get out more. Another She's Geeky'[h]er showed up too and we chatted about getting together to socialize and brainstorm to fulfill something we are lacking in the Valley. I look forward to it.

I really am energized from She's Geeky and what it feels like for people to actually listen to you. The short attention spans of some of the slashdotters was significantly different.

As the night progressed--mind you we got home just before 10PM--the bar personnel set up a bunch of tables for the Stanford frat people to play drinking games. The students looked too old to be jiving with such a stupid idea.