always annoyned me at conferences
No-one ever seemed to want to get anywhere near as drunk as I did.

Mind you computer graphics is a considerably more rock and roll research area than combinatorial search. We had some proper mathematical/theoretical compsci/space cadets at our conferences.

I have no such problem these days working in financial services :D
( djtrialprice, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 15:53, 1 reply)

aye,
theory conferences scare the bejeebus out of me. Computer graphics is borderline fluffy therefore there are girls AND people who can make eye contact.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 15:55, closed)

That reminds me...
...of a lecturer my brother had to put up with at University - he spent his entire time with his back to the audience during his lecture. Won an award for it, too - most boring lecturer. He got it 2 years in a row as well, by repeating the lecture the following year.

Bloody physicists.
(BombayMick Dogs are better than cats, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 16:02, closed)

Conferences are ace.
You get to tell famous people that they're wrong.


I was at a psychiatrists' conference a couple of years ago and had a great time in the Q&A telling the president of the WPA that his keynote address was incoherent. He avoided me for the rest of the event.

Result.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 19:24, closed)

That was very rude of you.
Why were you such a cunt to him?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 20 Apr 2009, 20:00, closed)