Geek out: We'll miss you, Orlowski
Hacks and flacks wished Andrew Orlowski (pictured, the one with his hair on top) farewell last night with a calm happy hour at the Edinburgh Castle Pub. His exit dilutes the pool of Valley journalism, as the Register reporter was a long-time snarker and Google hound (one confident enough to snub Google Press Day). Now, after five years in the Valley, he's headed back to England.
At Orlowski's goodbye party last night, the crowd included John Gilmore (Sun employee #5 and the creator of alt.* on Usenet), long-time Apple troll John C. Dvorak, and ZDNet reporter Dan Farber. Even the NYT's John Markoff broke away from his crowd of screaming fangirls to raise a glass for Orlowski. Spark PR picked up the tab and fixed the guy-girl ratio. As 'wag readers know, PR ladies are the coolest.
After the jump, more photos from Farber.
"Hey Dvorak, make that face you made when you finally got spam today."
"And how many times have you awkwardly commented on Leo Laporte's delivery during This Week in Tech?"
With the death of TechTV, Screen Savers host Patrick Norton had to trade his leather briefcase for a Jansport backpack.
