April 11, 2005

I haven't written in quite some time.  This Friday i took a half a day 
off work to go to Notacon, a convention here in Cleveland (or was it a 
conference...).  It was a three day event, but I only attended the first 
day because it just wasn't that interesting.  The first talk I saw was 
concerning starting a company based on open-source software.  The talk 
was actually great!  I got a lot of ideas from it.  The second talk i 
saw was horrible.  I never should have attended it.  I'm still not sure 
what it was about, and the presenter could put a child with ADD to 
sleep.  The final two talks I saw were both pretty good.  The first was 
about Cyberterrorism and the second was about the C64.  But i felt 
really out of place at the con since a) I didn't know anyone, and b) I 
don't have a laptop with wifi.  Everyone, and I mean everyone, had one, 
and they were all "computing" during the talks.  In the excruciatingly 
boring talk i did end up behind a guy who kept using his laptop.  But 
all he ever did was check e-mail.  He must have looked at his inbox for 
at least 1.5 hrs of the 2 hr talk.  What the hell was the point of that? 

So the con was lame.  I don't think I'll go to another ever again.

Adios,
Jeff
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