Last weekend was the annual gathering of the Tweakers.net-crew. With already the seventh edition of this Mother of all Meets was the geek-resistance of the island of Texel to the test.
Normally appears each year in early september an article on this site explaining why our users are a weekend could misbehave; then is the annual crewmeeting again. This year was different. There was a crewmeet, but completely in line with the developments in ict country are almost all of our employees, meanwhile, mobile online, so the chance is big that you nothing of our absence have noticed. And that while the Mother of all Meets”, seventh edition, this year is however not next to the door took place.
Because Limburg and Friesland to the flavor of the organisation is still not far enough away layers, should our volunteers for their annual dankjewelweekend this year, namely, on the fine island of Texel to spend. There was a Stayokay hired, which of the official opening on Friday evening to the hangover on Sunday, so forgive was of the tweakers with banrechten, and their supporters – with the exception of a few that TFM of the ferry service had not ge-R ” d and, under appropriate scorn, so until Saturday morning arrived.
Texel was also well to the expectations: the sheep tasted good, the Skuumkoppen of the local brewery had, indeed, a heavy head, both the sea and the sun were quite watery and the omnipresent sand crept in, as much as possible hardware.
And hardware was there, of course, enough. To the delight of everyone with ears got the Singstar setup this year relatively little attention, but in the end was missing-not, of course, and as I said, the bulk of the crew now runs on smartphones and netbooks around. That was the mutual interactivity obviously good: also in the crew sit down fanboys, expertise in the area of flaming is in our stock and after a year of collecting is too much fun to have to share. To this end, moreover, was provided for in an arsenal of Nerf guns, where an average army jealous. Only the tracked children, who thought that minors are the only ones that are brightly-coloured plastic toys find interesting, came here to a rude awakening.
On Saturday it was the whole flock to a beach to be transported, where the organization tried to get the drankrekening keep it low by the participants as thoroughly as possible from the wells. The spierpijnactiviteit eminently proved the rafting: which waves do not go voluntarily to the side and also in the crew are still people who think that you with a bottoms-up model results can books.
The blowkarten were also an attack on the constitution. Get going with this zeilwagentje simple enough, but stop is not. Fortunately, the parts of these cars are there left and right, so that those who by accident of the sea inreden, within a few hundred metres is usually enough wheels lost to come to a stop – but there were still a few who consider themselves on a brisk walk brought.
Deceptively simple was the power kiting. This kite-flying for advanced players is fun as long as you have enough weights, but who is a bit on the line note, so a broken collarbone to leave. Get Better Soon, Annemarie!
When were the expensive spelletjesnamen on and fell the organization back on challenges such as tug of war and walking with vierpersoonsschoenen or mansgrote inflatable hamsterwielen. That was indeed a bit tiring, but the net effect was that everyone in the evening was ready to the bar to leave and since there are weekly barbecue a solid bottom was placed, broke the drankrekening still all records.
That may also doubly remarkable, because in addition to the traditional whisk[e]y tasting had the bar this year also competition of the perfectly drinkable Coffee beer. That caused some headaches, but that can also meet the exuberant solicitation of the brewer. That will with comprehensive regression testing brought to light. Meanwhile, team ‘I’m on a boat’ the first prize of the strandevenement. Which turned out even more Nerf-schiettuig to consist of what the celebration, therefore, even further increased, except for that one team member that his new toy as soon as his wife had to return.
The year-over-year is a mystery where those stories about contactgestoorde nerds still come from: the combination of coziness, gadgets and brew yielded, as always, a fantastic weekend, which is still years discuss will be. The best proof of this was supplied by the two sons of a new colleague, who with some reluctance to their first Barely started, but at the end in unison, stated: “We also want to be a nerd!”
This is fixed well.
Bestest headshot evâh!