In reality, I’m probably no where near as cool as Shoemoney. He has more money, more fame and gets at least 10,000 more hits a day than I do on his blog but at least for tonight, I’m cooler. Why, you might ask? Anyone that reads shoemoney.com knows that he is a self-proclaimed T-shirt whore. People send him dozens of T-shirts every week in hope that their product or company will be featured on his “Free T-shirt Friday’s” post. Well, tonight I got a free T-shirt that I don’t think even Shoemoney has.

I went to the Slashdot 10th Anniversary party in Ann Arbor, MI, which happens to be home of the founder, CmdrTaco. The turnout was excellent! At least 200 geeks of various shapes, sizes and colors were there. I met Hemos, who gave me the shirt, as well as CmdrTaco. They had name tags printed out for everyone who had RSVP’d with their username and member number on them. The lower the number, the cooler you seemed to be. My number is 102,267 (out of over 1,100,000 registered users) which I got almost 8 years ago. I never though my Slashdot member number would be good for anything, guess I was wrong!

It was a good time. I got my ass kicked in foosball but did manage to set the high score for Mrs. Pac-Man (geeze, I am a geek). The party was still going on when I left and I’m sure it still is. The Leopold Bros. Pub in Ann Arbor is making a killing tonight I’m sure. Thanks for the free shirt Slashdot!

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