The conference is over

Woohoo!

Tomorrow, I can attempt to reclaim sanity! Or whatever it is I use in lieu of it.

Today wasn't as bad as yesterday. Food was catered by The Epicurean, instead of ARA, so instead of stale bagels and oily coffee for breakfast, we got fresh frittatas (ham/cheese and veggie), good bacon, fresh OJ, and great coffee. The box lunch salads included a BLT Salmon salad that was amazing, great puff pastries, and more great coffee.

And I kicked ass when I ran my course this morning. I don't like public speaking, but today, I was confidant and in control, and really just handled myself wonderfully. Wish I could always be this good when I teach.

Highlight of the conference yesterday: Telling Karl Hagen (after chatting with him for a while about the IT stuff he was asking about) how much I enjoyed his appearance on Good Eats (he was on the Fudge Factor episode). :-)

Reunions

I just got another invite to my Ten-year college reunion (Yeep! I turn 32 in fifteen days!). I'm still not planning on going, both because I don't exactly need a primer in how Emory's changed in the last ten years, and because I find college reunions more pointless than high school ones. In high school, my class was my peers. Sure, I had some friends in other grades, but the other kids who graduated with me were the ones I knew best. In college, it was nothing of the sort. With the exception of hamlet423, I don't think that anyone in our gaming group was from my year, and very few other folks from the Class of '94 were folks I ever saw with any regularity once I left my freshman hall. And even if I could pull together a good chunk of folks from that year that I'd like to see again, out of the fifteen hundred or so folks, what are the odds of even spotting them? So yeah, not wasting my time on this one.

But it was interesting that the latest mailing listed the names of the folks on the reunion committee. I recognized three of them. Two of them are folks I'd be happy never seeing again. Not exactly encouraging (the third is someone who was nice enough, but not exactly a close friend).

Yes!

I finally managed a throw over 400 feet in the air in Yeti Sports Seal Bounce. I'm content. :-)

(I truly consider this to be the best Flash game ever)

Ding, Dong, the son of a bitch is (almost) gone.

I'm surprised many of you haven't mentioned it, but Jack "Tool" Valenti has announced his retirement from the MPAA. Surely someone can send him a bootleg DVD as a retirement gift?

Of course, it's obviously thirty years too late, but hey, at least he's outta there.