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Europeans Invade the Shores of Detroit

Europeans Invade the Shores of Detroit

primesuspect Brian Ambrozy 5 May, 2006 at 10:50am ET Article published in Tech

There’s these two guys, you may have heard of them…. Shorty (the “Short” in short-media), and Mackanz (The short-media OCZ support guy).. I mean, they’ve been around a while, right?

Well, they’re coming to America… Warren, MI to be exact.

It’s true – Shorty and Mackanz will be at Short-Media LAN 2006!

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Comments

  1. Linc
    5 May 2006 ~ 10:52am Linc Duuuuuude... all stops are pulled. This is going to be the biggest LAN yet. If you thought you couldn't make it... think again. :rarr:
  2. Cyclonite
    5 May 2006 ~ 11:14am Cyclonite Hell. Freaking. Yes!
  3. QCH
    5 May 2006 ~ 11:35am QCH If you are on the fence about attending the SM-LAN'06 this June... This may be the ONLY time you will be able to see so many SM'ers in one place. Add in Shorty and Mackanz coming from beyond the big pond... this LAN will be memorable.

    Short-Media LAN 2006!

    :Rocker:
  4. profdlp
    5 May 2006 ~ 12:00pm profdlp There are no words to describe how happy this makes me. :D
  5. primesuspect
    5 May 2006 ~ 12:21pm primesuspect Me either. Let's make one up:

    Jelberized!

    Mastipricated!

    Gunderstatic!
  6. profdlp
    5 May 2006 ~ 1:06pm profdlp Good work, prime - I'm on the phone to Webster's right now. :thumbsup:
  7. Cyclonite
    5 May 2006 ~ 1:35pm Cyclonite
    primesuspect wrote:
    Mastipricated!

    Heh. Dirty.
  8. Sledgehammer70
    5 May 2006 ~ 1:38pm Sledgehammer70 Qwantacinta! I can't believe my eyes :) or my ears..... I will fabricate a Mongolian Yurt for our European visitors...
  9. profdlp
    5 May 2006 ~ 3:09pm profdlp
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    ...I will fabricate a Mongolian Yurt for our European visitors...
    Someone better bring some air freshener. :wtf:
  10. Esso
    5 May 2006 ~ 3:23pm Esso If you can't set up an live camera, take some photos from the Lanparty.

    If I will be able to visit the party in the future, I will bring surströmming with me.
    But I fear that I will not be invited more then once :Rocker:
  11. Cyclonite
    5 May 2006 ~ 3:44pm Cyclonite
    One of the World's Strangest Dishes
    by Bob Brooke

    Inevitably the fish would ferment and whole villages would stink of it but the inhabitants came to consider such fermented fish a delicacy. One type– surstromming or sour Baltic herring–survives in Sweden. Surely this has to be one of the world's strangest dishes and a potent expression of the saying that one man's meat is another man's poison.
    Caught in the months of May and June, processors immerse the fish for a day in brine and then decapitate and clean it. Next they stack it in barrels, trundling it out into the summer sun and left there for 24 hours to get the fermenting process started. An inch or two of space is left at the top of each barrel so that any gas formed during the fermentation can accumulate with out causing an explosion.

    Put into a cool storage room, the herring ferment at a slower rate. As they do, their aroma grows progressively stronger, and only the most acute nose can determine the precise point at which they are ready for canning.

    Among those who like surstromming best, and its fans are many, there's the belief that the contents of a can left for a year at a temperature of 68̊ F. actually improve; the can will have begun to swell, and at its puffiest must be opened gingerly, like a bottle of champagne.

    Swedes eat ripe surstromming with paper-thin hard bread and boiled potatoes, usually an almond-shaped variety that comes from the north. It has a sharp, cutting taste. Sometimes, they drink milk with it, but beer and aquavit more often accompany the dish. Some Swedes down it without a second thought to its smell; others, in order to partake of it at all, first have to rinse it in purifying soda water.

    Sales of surstromming are on the increase in Sweden, but its future as an export item is, predictably, dim. Although 800 cans of it used to be exported annually to Hollywood when a Swedish movie colony could still be found there, U.S. customs officials have since come to view it with suspicion, despite its proven nontoxicity. Moreover, the product doesn’t always travel well. Only recently a Swede found this out. Thinking to amaze an important New York client and the assembled board of directors with so bizarre a food, he produced the swollen can he had carried all the way from Sweden in his luggage and dramatically laid it on the table. At that moment, the can exploded.

    To read more articles by Bob Brooke, please visit his Web site.
    Text courtesy of http://www.allscandinavia.com/surstromming.htm

    I would have to decline I think.
  12. profdlp
    5 May 2006 ~ 3:56pm profdlp At that moment, the can exploded.

    Don't you hate it when that happens... :eek:

    Hey, Esso - I'm always willing to try something new. Get yourself over here and brings some of that stuff with you. :cheers: :sweflag:
  13. Esso
    5 May 2006 ~ 4:11pm Esso What that report did not mention, is that it takes courage and a lot of absolute vodka to eat it.

    Then if you open the can under water it doesn't smell so bad.
    I am borned in the middle of the surströmming district, were everyone does it !

    But I'll guess that after 1/2 liter of vodka, you wouldn't notice anything.:thumbsup:

    As Leonardo says, there is only one thing to avoid - don't eat the yellow snow !
  14. primesuspect
    5 May 2006 ~ 4:13pm primesuspect I'll get my wife's (Finnish) aunt to send along some lutefisk as well. We'll have a horrible stinky fish party :D
  15. Sledgehammer70
    5 May 2006 ~ 4:58pm Sledgehammer70 ekk I will go hide in the basement at that tiime...
  16. Esso
    5 May 2006 ~ 5:01pm Esso Sledge what you need is 1/2 liter of Absolut vodka, and you wouldn't need the basement. :beer:
    See my sign.
  17. Sledgehammer70
    5 May 2006 ~ 5:08pm Sledgehammer70 Do you know how big I am.. I need a full liter :)
  18. pseudonym
    5 May 2006 ~ 7:23pm pseudonym GAHHHHHH. You had to pick the one weekend I'm not there...

    /me cries...
  19. profdlp
    5 May 2006 ~ 7:39pm profdlp
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    ekk I will go hide in the basement at that tiime...
    I bet QCH can hardly wait. ;)
  20. mmonnin
    6 May 2006 ~ 1:15am mmonnin
    pseudonym wrote:
    GAHHHHHH. You had to pick the one weekend I'm not there...

    * pseudonym cries...

    Me too!!

    /cry
  21. Leonardo
    6 May 2006 ~ 1:52am Leonardo I guess I'll have to hop in the truck and drive way down south to Michigan. Wait, um, hmm...don't think I can get 16 days of vacation for the return-trip drive, not counting the time for LAN.

    Man, I'm going to have to make it to one of these!
  22. profdlp
    6 May 2006 ~ 12:45pm profdlp
    Leonardo wrote:
    ...I'm going to have to make it to one of these!
    Indeed you are. :)
  23. Linc
    6 May 2006 ~ 2:09pm Linc
    Leonardo wrote:
    Man, I'm going to have to make it to one of these!
    THIS ONE. :D

    Book a flight... :nudge:
  24. primesuspect
    6 May 2006 ~ 5:28pm primesuspect Come on, Leo. Is there gonna be another time when you'll get to meet mtgoat, shorty, prof, mackanz, and (most importantly of course), ME, all in one place for one weekend?

    Oh yeah, there will be other insignificant people there too... :D
  25. Sledgehammer70
    6 May 2006 ~ 5:29pm Sledgehammer70 Like Me!
  26. profdlp
    6 May 2006 ~ 5:45pm profdlp The more people who attend the better. It increases the chance that Snuffie will find someone he likes more than he likes me. :cool:
  27. Mt_Goat
    6 May 2006 ~ 7:46pm Mt_Goat
    profdlp wrote:
    The more people who attend the better. It increases the chance that Snuffie will find someone he likes more than he likes me. :cool:
    What's a matter? Ya afraid o a lil mantouch? :crazy:
  28. profdlp
    6 May 2006 ~ 8:05pm profdlp
    mtgoat wrote:
    What's a matter? Ya afraid o a lil mantouch? :crazy:
    Of course not, big boy. Is that an offer? :hitit2:

    It's the DogTouch that I'm worried about... :hiding:
  29. Mt_Goat
    6 May 2006 ~ 8:43pm Mt_Goat
    profdlp wrote:
    Of course not, big boy. Is that an offer? :hitit2:

    It's the DogTouch that I'm worried about... :hiding:
    O
    my sorry
    I forgot
    Its redrockets not mantouch
  30. Thrax
    6 May 2006 ~ 11:15pm Thrax I smell a <b>MANTOUCH REVIVAL</b>.
  31. Jimborae
    9 May 2006 ~ 8:40am Jimborae Hmm I wonder if I can convince Shorty to stow me a away in his suitcase so I can make it across too.

    Oh well I can always hope that I win the lottery between now & then.

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