Celebrate the Decline and Fall of the U.S. Empire at YAPC::NA::2008

Due to the wisdom of our political elites and economic
masters, the  
U.S. dollar has tanked.

Which means that most of the readers of this list can afford
to  
travel in the U.S. and spend those dollars like they were
Monopoly  
money.

Which means you should all come to YAPC::NA::2008 

It's being held in Chicago.  You all know where that is. 
Lots of you  
were there two years ago.

What may have escaped your attention is that YAPC::NA is
being held  
nearly two weeks earlier in June than it has been in the
last three  
years.  Monday to Wednesday, June 16-18.

Which means you have to start your travel plans earlier in
the spring.

And which also means that, if you are planning to submit a
talk, the  
deadline for proposals is earlier.  This Saturday, in fact,
March  
15.  So don't delay.

Here's our site:  http://confe
rences.mongueurs.net/yn2008/ 
about.html.  It's an ACT site, so the accounts you have used
for  
other conferences should work right out of the box.

Hope to see you all there!

Jim Keenan

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:00:39PM -0400, James E Keenan
wrote:
> Due to the wisdom of our political elites and economic
masters, the  
> U.S. dollar has tanked.
> 
> Which means that most of the readers of this list can
afford to  
> travel in the U.S. and spend those dollars like they
were Monopoly  
> money.
> 
> Which means you should all come to YAPC::NA::2008 
> 

You should probably appeal to the great European empire that
awaits
with anticipation the crowning of its new benevolant
dictator for
life, El Tono, with the lovely Queen Cherie at its side.

As while the dollar has tanked spectacularly, our beloved
Comrade
Brown and party workers have nicely managed to give us the
first 
bank run in 150 years, and the bargain basement price for
this?
just 50B[1]. So we are going down against the dollar[2],
compared
to our European friends.

Of course with G.W. getting rid of the main military officer
in
opposition to war with Iran, I'm sure the US can speed up
its
descent rate. After all why take (give) 2 messed up
invasions
into the shower errr next presidency, when you can take 3.

Greg

p.s. Anyway I'll stop this cheery ranting before I tell you
about the
     new game we created last night after hearing about the
wheat
     shortage - with the catchy title of, BBC News Bingo -
Signs
     of the Apocalypse Edition.

[1] All this is actually the total exposure if every asset
(houses)
    that Northern cockup actually became worth 0 pounds over
night,
    or Comrade Brown found some new and exciting way to cock
up.
[2] 120 day High, Feb 20, 0.515 (cost of a dollar), against
the bargain
    price of 0.473 back in Nov 8. And a current rate of
0.499. (you
    really dont want to know figures against the Euro).

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:00 AM, James E Keenan
<jkeenverizon.net> wrote:

> Due to the wisdom of our political elites and economic
masters, the
> U.S. dollar has tanked.
>
> Which means that most of the readers of this list can
afford to
> travel in the U.S. and spend those dollars like they
were Monopoly
> money.
>
> Which means you should all come to YAPC::NA::2008 


I think it's just a ruse to get us to spend Hard Currency in
their country.
Beware!!

  - Stefan