George Proctor said:
Pardon me for being thicker than the offspring of a Borg
drone and a short =
plank (not an entirely plausible combination but I'm sure it
could happen i=
n Star Trek), but what on Earth is First Friday?
First friday of the month.
A kind of "Ex
IFIS" meet, but it has somewhat flopped during the last year
or so. It sounds sinister the first time you hear about it (I remember it
myself!), but in fact it's just a load of the older
IFIS people, some of
them unable to attend thursday evenings because they have jobs and live far
away and find thursdays inconvenient, would instead/also meet up once a
month, first friday of every month. Has sometimes been meals rather than
just drinking. Current students aren't exactly banned or anything, but
probably won't know most of the people there for the same reasons they
probably won't know you. I think anyone who has discovered "
IFIS - it's not
just for 3 years, it's for LIFE!" is welcome to join us, even if you realise
this before your second year :-)
Isn't always in Englefield Green either - used to be in the Orange Tree in
Richmond for a while, again because most of the ex-
IFIS type people then
didn't find Egham to be convenient in the same way they didn't find
thursdays to be convenient. Has GENERALLY been in the Egham/Green/Staines
area, but as I said, recently it's kind of not really happened at all. Wendy
was trying to revive it, I think she was suggesting the place that's sprung
up in place of Jasper's in Egham High Street?
Another idea that's been suggested (by Estelle and I, with nods of approval
from a few others?) is Pizza Express membership, which gets you something
like 4 meals a year, (plus wine?), for a price a fair bit cheaper than 4
meals. Ex-
IFIS people could do Pizza Express every 4 "first fridays" and
have one other meal for special occasions, and do something else for the
other 75% of first fridays?
I was considering making another mailing-list, 1stfri@ or
something, to let us organise something once in a while whilst also avoiding
confusing the students too much, but it seems I'm too late ;-)
Nick Waterman, Blackberry Unix Systems Administrator, Research In Motion
