MR party at Bobruisk
Once Upon A Time, we've decided to celebrate release of the new version of software that we were developing: Knova 6.6. Our team was 6 developers (boys

) and 3 testers (girls

). As a party place we selected the shore of Beresina river near the legendary Belarusian city Bobruisk. We selected this place because it's at the middle between Gomel (Developers were from Gomel) and Minsk (Testers were from Minsk). Also, the nature is beautiful there. You can read about these places in classic Russian literature - "The Golden Calf" (Zolotoi telenok) written in 1931 by Ilya Ilef, Evgeny Petrov. Here is the extract (my traslation):
[i]" -- What? All the upland? - said Balaganov. [br]Do you want the Melitopl into the bargain? Or the Bobruisk? [br][br]
The people at the gathering moaned lamentably when they've heard the word "Bobruisk". Everybody was ready to go to the Bobruisk right now. Bobruisk was said as beautiful, highly cultured city."[/i]
and the other translation(by Charles Malamuth):
[i]
"How's that? All of the plateau?" Balaganov taunted.[br]
"And why not add Melitopol, or perhaps Bobruisk?"[br][br]
At the mention of Bobruisk the entire convention moaned
painfully. Everybody was ready to go to Bobruisk immediately. Bobruisk was considered a splendid, highly cultured
place.[/i]
BTW, we failed to avoid "Otjig": Burn CD-RW. Finally, this trip was highly successful and extremely funny. Everybody got their dose of positive emotions
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