Comments on: When stuck in Barcelona, call. Don’t Qik. It’s quicker.

By: D

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:04:22 +0000

Damien. Why would Mike be anti Irish?
Doesn’t he write or used to write in the Irish Times?
It’s just a funny story that happened to involve Irish, American and British guys getting lost!.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:07:48 +0000

Somewhere in there is a line about intelligent idiots. Yep, that’s us!

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:28:13 +0000

Next week, TechCrunch attempts to organise piss-up in brewery, but after scouring Wikipedia and YouTube for hours can’t find any how-tos on getting the barrels open, miserable time had by all.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:10:19 +0000

So I though this was a simple story But now it’s “Four guys go to wrong location, gatecrash wrong party, and leave without knowing it”. Priceless. It’s going to take something to beat this story.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:55:40 +0000

You mean to tell me that after staring at a hole in the ground for half an hour we ended up in the wrong place? My goodness – this just gets more bizarre by the minute. Props to Mike B for putting the vid up. You had to be there.

By: Geoffrey McCaleb

Geoffrey McCaleb — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:58:56 +0000

This is starting to look like the plot of some bad screwball comedy….or possibly a sequel to “The Party”….

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:52:30 +0000

NYC ,oh for gods sake, I suppose the grid will help. lets bring Damien and Mike B as well

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:50:21 +0000

I can’t wait for our upcoming trip to NY. It will definitely Qik-ed.

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:43:29 +0000

Afraid you got this one wrong Damien
funny story full stop
Mike was one of the people we called. Its all bloody Paul Walsh’s fault anyways

By: Paul J

Paul J — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:38:43 +0000

Damien – dry up. There’s nothing even vaguely anti-Irish here.

Funny story.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:16:20 +0000

Mike, dying to meet me, was that threat?

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:08 +0000

Damien Mulley – I am dying to meet you. You sense of humour bypass must be quite a medical miracle. FYI Dennis is a Brit and Loren is a Yank. Sorry if that spoils your sense of self persecution.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:44:15 +0000

Why let the truth get in the way of yet another dig at Irish people? TechCrunch UK does no serious reporting on Irish companies yet is very willing to slag them off on a frequent basis. Valleywag much?

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:38:08 +0000

1) We were given the address for a lawyer firm from TechCrunch – address given was 177
2) That address was incorrect
3) We checked the correct address for that firm using Google and it was in fact 477 (5 miles away)
4) We turned up to a party at 477 to find that it’s the wrong party.
5) We still managed to meet people we know – out of say, 50 people.

Net result = we had a blast trying to find the wrong party.

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:25:05 +0000

We did
we phoned Mike Arrington who didn’t know anything about it and Mike Butcher who got us an address but we used the iPhone to find the proper address of the Lawyers and headed on over there.
Its most confusing

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:40:24 +0000

I still don’t get why the guys didn’t just phone someone…

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:16:18 +0000

@benedictevans
amazing, so obviously the Truphone team didn’t know plus you plus 5 of us, so what was going on there exactly.
There surely cant have been a party going on at the exact same time in two different places.

By: Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:11:02 +0000

I didn’t know. I was on my way somewhere else, chatted for an hour and left.

There’s a message in here about Americans who assume everyone is using their laptop to check Techcrunch as they walk around a MOBILE convention! How hard would it have been to send an email to the guest list?

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:01:46 +0000

@paulwalsh you mean you didn’t know this?
remember I went looking for John Biggs and couldn’t find him, in fact no one know who he was either.

By: Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:30:31 +0000

What? I didn’t know it wasn’t a TechCrunch party LOL. I met two friends there; Lubna (Founder of Mobile Monday New York) and Carl (Employee #1 at Operator 3) – both of whom I had introduced to Loren by email earlier that day.

You mean that wasn’t the TechCrunch party? This just gets funnier and funnier.

By: Arrington is omnipresent

Arrington is omnipresent — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:20:39 +0000

Best line yet “who is Mike Arrington”

By: bge

bge — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:12:40 +0000

I am impressed. You moved your networking event, but forgot to send out an email or SMS. So half your guest list turned up at the old venue and had your event anyway, without you.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:51:15 +0000

Ah, that explains why your second video looks nothing like the TechCrunch party. Nice work guys, nice work…

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:35:52 +0000

There’s a great story here Mike, we went to some lawyers office which was the real address John gave us, seriously pissed off we forced them to allow us up, 30 suits were up there but we only knew 2 which were Truphones James Body and James Tagg.

We were asked millions of questions of who we were and I got cross and said I was a friend of Michael Arrington, “who” was the reply
we ate all their wonderful food, got amazingly strange looks and then I got a call to go to a serious dinner so I left the lads there.