I fondly remember technocrat.net. I promise to submit interesting articles if it is resurrected. :)

Perhaps screwing the pooch would be a better term. Stop having sexual relations with my dog, damnit.

I was looking for a way to mark "Slashdot Staff" as a foe...

Have you ever read the story of the goose that laid the golden egg?

St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the metro area, which is called Tampa Bay

From Wikipedia: "The Census Bureau currently estimates the population for the CMSA at 4,228,855 as of 2010 during consolidation.[3] as of July 1, 2008, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Florida and fourth in the Southeast."

You should come to one of the SLUG meetings or hacking sessions. We have talks ranging from programming languages (especially new/interesting ones), robotics, war stories, etc. We have had some guest speakers in the past, including the first person to setup a webserver in North America. Disclosure: I've been a member for the last decade; and I'm also the president and meeting coordinator for the Pinellas meetings.

The city was named St. Petersburg by a Russian immigrant and railroad tycoon, Peter Demens (Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev, cyrillic: slashdot won't display)

I was also at that party, and I realize that I had been in a job interview (a successful one) two months prior with the parent poster. But I don't believe we talked at all during the /. party. Or even ran into each other. Or we did and I forgot. I'm pretty sure I spent most of the evening envying my friend Tak's N700 "internet tablet".