siggraphery, day zero
So, I’m at NPAR and SIGGRAPH this week. I have a paper at NPAR. My talk is tommorrow morning. In theory I am working on my slides right now. In practice, I am writing on the internets. This will be my first time at SIGGRAPH that I’m not giving a talk, which means I might actually get to go to parties, etc. Which is awesome. They are doing this weird “NPAR fast-forward” sketch session, but I just have to parrot my 2 minute script - I can do that hung-over if necessary.
SIGGRAPH is in San Diego this year. It’s hot. But not as hot as Toronto, with the 45-degrees-counting-humidity insanity. AC and I have been sleeping on the couch in the living room, next to the air conditioner. The cats keep us up all night. This is not acceptable. So, all you car-drivers: knock it off, already. Clearly, you are warming Toronto, and I will not stand for it. Angry letters have been mailed.
Conversation overheard on flight between marketing people: “After MySpace sells for 5 billion, everyone is going to want their own social networking site.” I’m not sure which is more depressing - his complete and utter cluelessness, or that he is probably right…
Wi-fi in my hotel: not-awesome. Signal strength high, throughput abysmal. Remember when wireless was good? Before everyone else started using it, and interfering with my radio waves? Those were the days…
(Is it becoming apparent that I don’t really have anything interesting to type about, and am just procrastinating? Back to the slides…)
August 7th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Your presentation went fine. I didn’t catch a wiff of spirits.
Anything can be bastardized by the conglomerates, as soon as the vultures realize there’s money to make. The kids these days are beyond myspace anyway. Only the followers are still on it. They’ll always be one step behind.