Bill Harp and the Stonehenge Parties

The Stonehenge Parties & OSCON

• My best buddy for three decades, Bill Harp, had a massive heart attack on Wednesday, February 20, 2013, and sadly passed away at age 45.
• Bill was the master planner behind the massive Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. parties at OSCON during the dot-com boom.
• One of his most legendary party planning achievements was coordinating a live alpaca inside the bar for the release party of the Alpaca book (Learning Perl on Win32 Systems).
• Bill also handled our booth presence at major technical events like OSCON and LISA, and we briefly co-owned a bar together in eastern Oregon.
• He was a true "people hacker" who could convince anyone to do almost anything.
• In the early days, he served as a coordinator for the very first Geek Cruises voyage, famously described in a Wired Magazine article as the "human blink tag" (though I had to explain to him what a <blink> tag meant!).