“This year’s badges have print you can only read by grabbing the tag and pulling it up to your eyes, or by getting your nose closer to some folks than is actually healthful. Whoever designed the badges needs to be forced to put their noses close to all the attendees until they get the point.” —http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arnold/archive/2005/06/names_matter.html
That cracked me up…me and R. (coworker) were complaining about some people with bad BO in some of the sessions. I think it would be far beneficial to the conference to give away free deodorant samples in the backpacks
This guy had some pictures of the AfterDark birthday bash highlighting some things I didn’t get to see. I was there at some point, but apparently not at the right time to see some of the things he saw. Cool to at least see the pictures after the fact.
“Rules of Line Land: When you see 5000 people in a line, you should get a place in line THEN ask what the line is for. This seems to be the only way to get into meals before they run out of food. Breakfast was only coffee and juice by the time I got in, but I seem to be only about 1000 people back in the Lunch Queue. Seriously. The line for this morning’s “General Session” was about twice the length of anything I’ve seen at the Cinerama.” — Sean B.
Yep…there were quite a lot of lines…and I saw quite a few of those lunch lines that not only went out of the big room where they had the lunch area, but twisted around through several hallways all the way from the south building to the north building…I luckily mostly got lunch fairly early and didn’t so much have to deal with that messiness…but still…the prinicple definitely applies.