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layout: post
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title: "Fancy some cocaine?"
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- miscellaneous
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[FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org) is quite the experience, thousands of geeks
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running around, dozens of free and open source projects, and plenty of
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Club-Mate and beer for every attendee to purchase. The weekend is exceptionally
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busy, and for me, the sleep at night between the chaos is always interesting.
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One night, I had a dream which I can remember, where I found myself in
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conversation about something or another with a colleague. We were sitting at a
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table not unlike one which could be found in the ULB Cafeteria at FOSDEM.
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Mid-conversation, my dream-colleague casual took out a small container, scooped
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a bit out with his fingernail, snorted into his nose what I dream-determined
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was cocaine, and continued in conversation. In my dream I found myself terribly
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offended.
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Since when was it socially acceptable to be a casual user of cocaine, and so
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blatantly use it in public!
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I do not believe I dream-said anything, but I was dream-offended enough to
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where I remembered the dream when I awoke.
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I started to reflect on how abhorrently hypocritical dream-Tyler had been. The
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day prior to my dream, [Kohsuke](https://github.com/kohsuke) handed me a bottle
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of beer, purchased from the openSUSE folks, no later than 10 in the morning.
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Overall, FOSDEM is a chaotic two-day conference fueled entirely on caffeine,
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nicotine, and beer. In fact, I found myself sitting at a table more than once,
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at all hours of the day, discussing one thing or another with people beer in
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hand. This casual consumption around technology events is not something I am
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the first to recognize, but I haven't ever mentally equated a "casual beer"
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with something like a "casual bump of cocaine."
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While I don't expect FOSDEM to change anytime soon, I encourage my fellow
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hackers to consider what level of casual drug use they believe is socially
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acceptable at any technology event.
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