Hi all, blue polo reserved for Saturday -- checked facial hair is growing -- checked what can go wrongSpeaking on weather and time of day. What time do we plan to go and come back?
Depending that I will most likely need hosting in Vienna :-((that is unless we wait for the morning train leaving Bratislava at 4am or continue party in Vienna)
Graphical theme: Rudi used to go by the pseudonym Red Devil, so for me the BSD daemon is somehow authentic depiction of Rudi ;-)
https://www.google.at/images?q=bsd%20daemonCosts: I'm sure we can distribute the cost to make a great party for Rudi (even though Bratislava is not as cheap as in the movies anymore)
ciao Alex On 22.04.2013 17:56, Manuel Bernhardt wrote:
Hi,I also support the blue polo and I might have 2, but I have to check (I'm sure I have 2, but not sure I have them with me). Btw. what is the weather these days? Will we be able to wear just polo or we'll need something over? Because in that case, having the same shirt under different sweaters will defy the purpose.Good point :-) The weather is actually looking much better during the day. The forecast for saturday goes up to 28°C during the day for Bratislava, during the night of course it gets colder, but by then I think we won't be running around too much anymore anyway.I'm ready with my beard and willing to color the hair. Though for me that might be the simplest. How are others dealing with this? :)Waiting for appropriate length ;)Btw. should we maybe plan a meeting on Friday evening to finalize the details?That would be a good idea. May I suggest that we do not meet too close to Rudi's place? Some ideas: http://www.kaenguruh-pub.at/ (they have Belgian beers, very tasty) http://www.medl-braeu.at/ (that's a guy who won in the lottery and made his own dream come true of making his own beer) http://www.7stern.at/ ----- If nobody stops me, I'll ask for the "soon to join the dark side" polo to be printed / stitched, going to send the attached vectorized version to get a cost estimate. It may get a bit expensive on such a short notice, but if we share the cost, the price should be affordable. Talking about which, I'll do some maths later on to see how much we need to finance Rudi's transport & other things. Not sure how this is done usually, but I think we can all provide a bit of cash to provide for Rudi's stuff and maybe a few drinks, and then later pay rounds or something of the kind. Cheers, manu On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Filip Kis <filip.kis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Minivan + car sound good. We can maybe do some pitstops and exchange some passenger every now and then. I also support the blue polo and I might have 2, but I have to check (I'm sure I have 2, but not sure I have them with me). Btw. what is the weather these days? Will we be able to wear just polo or we'll need something over? Because in that case, having the same shirt under different sweaters will defy the purpose. I also like the idea of making him a special polo and the starwars themed one sounds great! I think that the ones with stitches are better then just printed ones, but it might be to late for making such. If not then I would not go for big picture, but something smaller. If it's printed, then the proposed picture is OK, but I would say on the back. I'm ready with my beard and willing to color the hair. Though for me that might be the simplest. How are others dealing with this? :) Btw. should we maybe plan a meeting on Friday evening to finalize the details? Filip On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Manuel Bernhardt <bernhardt.manuel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi again! Ok, I did a few calls to taxi services in Vienna - there seems to be this one guy that has all sorts of different websites, but it's always the same guy, and he is extremely unfriendly, i.e. he hung up on me twice (the first time when I said I needed to check with the others about prices, and he said something like "yeah, so you're going to look for someone cheaper and then call back, right"). So much about knowing how to run a successful business. So, I found an eastern european company instead and sent them an e-mail (http://www.taxitransport.sk/en/pricelist). I would go for taking one MiniBus (6-7 people) and one Mercedes (1-4 people) as we are currently 10 (Stefan Proell and Stephan Strodl won't be able to make it unfortunately), and this option leaves place for one more. I'll see how much the price tag for that would be, I expect it to be somewhat more expensive than what is advertised on their website because of a surcharge for the night. --- What do you think about the blue polo outfit idea & do we want to make a (last minute) one for Rudi, especially for the occasion? And, if yes, what do we put on it? :) (something along the lines of "joining the dark side" comes to mind - I'm not the first one to have the idea, apparently: http://mr2pointo.tumblr.com/post/24139959788/darkside-wedding-shirt-is-your-lol-t-shirt-of-the-day) Cheers! manu On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Manuel Bernhardt <bernhardt.manuel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all, thanks for all the ideas, this will be great! So if I may do a short summary: - so far everyone likes the idea of going to Bratislava (with public transport, at least for one direction) - ideas for wearing something common: rather no t-shirt, but something smaller (pins were mentioned), or maybe a common color (blue polo was mentioned), and also: Rudi-style beard, red hair (easy to organise) - Bratislava: Vanja has a Slovak work colleague who may know some pubs - strip club: it sounds as though Rudi may not be entirely opposed to it since he mentioned a tentative at a Stammtisch - themes: musicals, Star Wars, ITC / makumba - game ideas: have Rudi perform some musicals in the street, have him do something geeky / coding combined with alcohol (Social Network) Let me know if I forgot something... Here's some additional thoughts from me: - kidnapping Rudi with only a small group and bringing him as fast as possible to an underground pub would probably be very effective for a "where the hell am I" moment, but on the other hand may not be as fun as not all the group is together. An alternative would be to all go together (without saying a word), with the risk of Rudi finding out where he's going on the way. I'm personally not really decided which one is best, I could probably easily organize a car and driver if we decide to do this. The "where on earth am I" factor sounds tempting, I must say :) --- We also need something to cover his eyes. - for coming back from Bratislava, I need to check for transit services still, it would be stupid to be stranded at the middle of the night :) Help with that part would be appreciated - pubs in Bratislava: Marian Buhinici, who some of you may know, is living in Bratislava, so I could ask him for some input as well. - outfits: I like the idea of the "temporary red hair" because it is very simple to put into practice. Rudi-style beard is cool too, if feasible! Now about clothes: I like the "suit up" idea, however it may be trickier to achieve, and esp. to get Rudi to "suit up" for a surprise kidnapping may not be straightforward. So what I would propose is to all wear blue jeans and a dark-blue or black polo. I've got 2 of those, in L, so I could provide for one additional one - it should also be feasible to buy some of those within the week. Could everyone tell me who does _not_ have a dark-blue or black polo (or who has additional ones)? - strip club: I am personally tempted to give this a try, and also my girlfriend organized a male stripper at a bachelorette party not too long ago, so I have some catching up to do :) Cheers! manu On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Christoph Lanz <christoph.lanz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi guys, This all sounds like fun :-) I love the idea of kidnapping him to Blava! I also think going there by public transport would be ok. But for coming back we should organise something. I'm not really up-to-date about pubs there. A quick look at localvortex.net shows one directly in Bratlislava. I guess we should make sure that all places we plan to visit are still there and recommended by someone we know. About outfits: I'm no big fan of quickly-printed t-shirts with a photo on them. I personally don't own an ITC polo, but since this is the one piece of outfit that I've seen Rudi wear by far the most times: how about all of us wearing a dark blue polo? Maybe we could do ITC buttons for everyone or at least the ones who don't own an ITC polo? The beard thing is a good idea. I'm not sure if we'll all manage. Rudi also had his hair partly coloured in red for several years since I knew him (cf. his PA pic). Maybe we can organise something like that? I seem to remember that there were these cans to colour your hair red temporarily, like for carnival. We could do that easily, I guess. Oh, and I'd love it if there was something related to Star Wars ^^ About musicals: thanks for mentioning that. I tried to find an old pic of Rudi and me doing the Titanic thing (see attachment), and now I have that horrible Titanic song in my head all day. Is there an elevated place somewhere in Blava with a nice view where we could make him sing or something? About strippers: I'm no fan of that. But as mentioned, Rudi talked about Andreas P.'s bachelor party and seemed ok with it. I personally wouldn't go, but well, I'll join you all. At Andreas' party they couldn't enter the planned strip club because their bachelor was too drunk and it showed (according to Rudi), so maybe the lesson to learn here is to not get Rudi too drunk ;-) Cheers! Christoph On 18 April 2013 18:15, Manuel Bernhardt <bernhardt.manuel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi guys, thanks all for the great ideas! I have only very limited Internet so I will read in details just a bit later. Just wanted to say that I added Hubert and Andreas to the list, so we are now 13! Cheers from Tenerife, manu On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Vanja Rojko <vanja.rojko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello everyone, Manuel, I like the idea of kidnapping him to Bratislava and doing the partying there very much! This might be a bit more difficult to organize but It would be even better if only two/three of us appear at his place, blindfold him and take him (Could we rent some transportation? Ask some car driving female Best friend for a favour / reimburse the costs etc...) directly to the place in Bratislava (some underground bar) where the rest of us would already be waiting...it would take him some time to realize where the hell he is :D :D What do you think? Would that be doable? As I read, Bratislava is a common place for the British stag parties. I guess the locals are probably sick of groups of drunk men abusing the east-west price difference so my suggestion would be maybe not to do the obvious t-shirt-this-guy-is-getting-married-thing but rather to go for something subtle. I find the idea that we all wear Rudi style facial hair fantastic! :) We should really agree on that soon enough so everyone has enough time to grow it.. :D I guess that we will be doing some pub crawling in BRA. Manu do you have some ideas already? I have a Slovak work colleague (I know that's hard to believe) so I will ask for some route recommendations. About the geeky programming ideas, maybe I'm wrong, but I would not put too much of an emphasis on that. He is, and will be, doing it for his whole life so maybe the bachelors party should be spared. I also find it really sympatisch how Manuel carefully asked about the strippers and nobody answered. I personally have a strong moral codex that forbids me to look at underdressed women dancing around poles. But, just on that special night, just that one time, I am ready to sacrifice it. ...... Sacrifice it because that is what friends are for. Seriously, at the last Alumni Stammtisch Rudi was telling a story about how they visited two strip clubs in Vienna and were kicked out. I don't remember what was the occasion then but we have to make it right this time.... And last but not the least, my suggestion would be for us all to SUIT UP! It's going to be LEGEN - wait for it - DARY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ijk3nepXmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYb0B_-jaBU Looking forward to it very much!! On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Filip Kis <filip.kis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Related to geeky, programming task... the scene from Social Network comes to my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxKmDWDUZ5A Filip On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Luka Vidmar <luka.vidmar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hej, some comments from my side: - would be cool to all wear a piece of sth similar, not necessarily tshirt. what about head or rudi's beard? Or our PA code on the foreheads? - lets add some geeky, programming related tasks - i like the idea of Bratislava. At least on the way there i would prefer public transrporation, cause some tasks cam be done with random ppl on the train/bus - Roadtrip theme sounds cool, but then i guess we should all watch it before. On Friday eve? - what about making him perform musicles on streets of Bratislava? - some parts of Makumba party should be definitely included - sth in Eastern Europena style, as his wife-to-be is from there and we are apparently having paty there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY1MVQeeStY) Thats for now. Looking fwd to it. Luka . On 12 April 2013 19:49, Stefan Pröll <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi! A weird thing, at least in my perception, is that he likes Musicals. In a three day business trip To London, he insisted in visiting two Musicals :-) Maybe thats also something to tease him... Filip Kis <filip.kis@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:Just quick brainstorming: - what are the things that Rudi likes, but doesn't necessarily share with Diana (football comes to mind as one thing) Other then this he likes: - golf - table tennis - video games - Star Wars - beer Doing T-shirts is doable. Rudi love's polos (the classical ITC ones he has in abundance) so maybe consider that. I have an access to 3D printer that can print 15 cm^3 objects, so if we come up with something geeky, fun and useful (at least for that one night) we could do that. That's my contribution for now. Filip On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Manuel Bernhardt <bernhardt.manuel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Dear all, sorry for the delay with sending this mail, my week has been a little crazy. We're now already 10 people for the bachelor party (so 11 including Rudi), with so far 2 people coming from abroad, and I expect between 5-6 more people to join. So this should be fun ;) Given that there are only 2 weeks left, I'd like to get started soon on brainstorming for what we're going to do. An additional challenge for me is that I'm going to be on Teneriffa next week, in part climbing a volcano, and they don't seem to have wifi on that particular volcano, so I'll have some catching up to do when back. I'm sure we'll manage to make a great programme for the bachelor party and arrange everything on time nonetheless! Talking about which: the idea I had so far was to start the bachelor party in Vienna, e.g. at Rudi's place (Diana won't be there that week-end, she'll be in Romania trying out the wedding dress, which by the way, fun fact, is produced by an Austrian company in Romania) and to then move / kidnap him to... Bratislava! Some of the reasons I came up with, as an excuse for having this idea: - it's really not far away from Vienna, so not a very long transit time - the drinks are likely going to be cheaper - the strippers too (well, we have to check if that's one thing we want to do or not) - I have fond pieces of memories of the bars in the underground of the inner city. Though only pieces. Which may be a good sign. - As far as I know, Rudi made a boatload of people watch "Europtrip", and not only once - so much so that I know whole dialogues by hearth by now (and so does he, much better than me, I think). One of the scenes is about the main characters getting to Bratislava (thinking they were in fact in Berlin), then realizing it, and uttering "Oh my god, we're in Eastern Europe" (the movie is a pretty exaggerated parody of a number of European countries as well as the US, it gets to be really fun once you've watched it 2-3 times). So theme-wise, I think this could be rather funny. There's of course a little bit of logistics to handle, about getting there and getting back sometime at night, so I was thinking to rent a mini-van with driver or something of the kind, at least for the way back. If anyone has a better idea, or has a proposal of where to call, please shout! I'll look into it more into details now as well, there are regular buses for about 60 € per 10 rides, just at night for coming back, having something more comfortable might not be too bad an idea. Some more thoughts, in random order: - do we want to make t-shirts (can we arrange t-shirts on such a short notice) - what kind of (drinking) games and other games do we want to play - where to go to in Bratislava - strippers? :) Ok, I think this mail is long enough by now. Now it's your turn, what do you think of the above, do you have any ideas, suggestions, etc.? Cheers! manu-- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and typos.-- じゃあ ね ランツ・クリストフ (Lanz Christoph) http://einjahrmadrid.blogspot.com/ Ma chi me l'ha fatto fare? BEST http://www.BESTvienna.at
