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July 30, 2006
Sunday
 
 
Ben Casnocha in London
Jackie D (London)  Antics & parties

When Silicon Valley's youngest dot-com dynamo (and all around delightful guy), Ben Casnocha, told me that he was coming to Europe for his gap year travels, I knew he could not leave London without the full Samizdata experience.

fooooood

Of course, first an offering to the Hippo God had to be made...

elena y perry

Elena and Perry performed their synchronised hand-jive performance to an adoring crowd

al fresco

PooterGeek found something else to applaud - guesses on a postcard, please...

elena, dave, jackie

I tried not to show how revolted I was by the unsightly growth that had suddenly sprouted from Elena's head

crowd

What could possibly have these capitalists so rapt with attention?

evil capitalists

But of course...

There are more photos at Flickr.

Comments

What a strangely 70s table cloth!


Posted by Nick M at July 30, 2006 12:49 PM

Nick, you should have seen me wince with every drop of coronation chicken that landed on it...


Posted by Jackie Danicki at July 30, 2006 12:55 PM

Jackie, wow, those cream-cake items on the left side of the picture look great but gawd, the cholesterol. Aggghh...


Posted by Johnathan at July 30, 2006 01:07 PM

Hmmm... tell Ben I have this great little IT venture about to move into the stage where Jim and the seed money guy send the b-plan to investors....


Posted by Dale Amon at July 30, 2006 04:14 PM

And the Hippo Deity was much pleased by the offering!


Posted by Taweret at July 30, 2006 05:39 PM

Oooooh... samizporn.

Very tasty.


Posted by Kim du Toit at July 31, 2006 04:08 PM

Wait a minute...shouldn't they be staring at

£

instead of the dollar sign?


Posted by Alan K. Henderson at August 2, 2006 09:19 AM
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