Vlad Mazek » Hacking http://www.vlad.net The more personal side of Vlad... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:06:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Partying with the Microsoft family http://www.vlad.net/partying-with-the-microsoft-family/ http://www.vlad.net/partying-with-the-microsoft-family/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:49:08 +0000 Vlad http://www.vlad.net/partying-with-the-microsoft-family/ This is the first post on my personal blog that can quite easilly fit into all categories. First of all, the setting – Microsoft UC family – thats us in Exchange, LCS (now OCS), few guys from TechNet and lots of engineers, PMs, etc. Kevin Engman, the community lead for the unified commnications group threw an awesome party, really nice to get into a smaller setting and have some good conversations.

There is always an exception.

Someone pooed in the urinal.

You read that right – someone in the mens bathroom couldn’t wait and they went #2 in the #1. Classy, straight out of South Park episode. Talk about a way to highlight the evening, watching five hotel workers working at the messy situation in the bathroom. Then they brought out what looked like a 40lb gallon jug of bleach. Yours truly had to go in and take a picture, where three supervisors were watching two guys trying to balance out a.. well… thing.. using long plyers. As the evening went on and we looked at the spectacle from the bathroom they finally handled it with a garbage picker-upper thing. Amazing.

This officially goes down in the book as the “weirdest thing that ever happened at a Microsoft event.” How do you poo into a urinal? How do you wipe? Where do you tug your… I dunno, I am puzzled by the logistics and the brilliance that went into executing this.

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