Suppose you’re a plush Free Software Foundation animal and you’ve just arrived in Montreal and “gnu” in town. What do you do? You hang out the with speakers and university delegates from the CUSEC conference for a night on the town!

For dinner, we went to L’Academie on Crescent Street, a restaurant where the food is prepared by student chefs training to work in three- and four-star restaurants. Here’s the gnu enjoying some Masi:

Afterwards, it was off to Brutopia for an evening of fun and drinking games:

Brutopia make a wonderful oatmeal stout. I think the gnu’s glad he joined the Dark Beer Side!

I’m going to take the gnu on my trip to Seattle next week, where I’ll be attending Microsoft’s Techready internal conference (after searching him for FSF listening devices, of course). Watch this blog for photos of the gnu’s tour of the city, and maybe even the offices in Redmond!

From tonight until Sunday morning, I’ll be in Montreal for CUSEC, the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference. If you want to catch up with me, I’ll be at tonight’s CUSEC Pub Night, which takes place at Benelux (245 Sherbrooke Street West) starting at 9 p.m.. See you there!