Coolest things at TPC 5.0: Jam BOF (Bruce, you rock!) Meeting my XML-RPC co-author, Edd Dumbill The robot ping pong table The Internet Quiz Show (xml routers still suck, Jon ;-) Watching an aircraft carrier leave port (that's a big dinghy!) Learning about MySQL's gemini tables The Perl Lightning Talks CJ Rayhill (my boss) for letting me go