Rave: Good timing

[jim]

Step 1: Abstract accepted.

Now I just have to see if can scrounge up a couple of 3k in my budget to get myself there. Originally I said a .75 probability of getting the money, that actually went down to about .5 recently, but I think it's back up to about .65. I think I'll know pretty quickly.

[lukethedrifter]

I could probably get you tix to a game in some corporate box seats thru my sister but you wouldn't want those so never mind.


Go to Swan's Oyster Depot for lunch.

[jim]

Down to .05 now. There is no money to travel. They will send some bureaucrat to give a technical discussion, he'll have no idea what he's saying, and the other bureaucrats in the audience will sleep through it. On the last day of the conference they will all get their pictures taken, and feel like they really accomplished something important. They will then return to their home institutions, give a presentation there completely mangling the information, and then everyone will go on about their lives and forget that this conference ever happened. Except the bureaucrat will save his registration badge, with his collection of others, on his cork board in his office which will remind him of his importance in the world.

This is how these things work.

[lukethedrifter]

I wish I had a cork board telling me how important I was to the world.

[wart57]

I wish I had a cork board telling me how important I was to the world.

I got one of those, and here is the picture to prove it!!!

[jim]

Ok I'm going. July 1 I will be at the Cards/Giants game, and possibly July 2 depending on when I fly out. Apparently I am the bureaucrat now.

[lukethedrifter]

How's your cork board?

[jim]

How's your cork board?

Filled with sports tickets. I'll add one more after I go to the conference.

[jim]

Plane tickets bought, July 1 I will be in Giants park watching the Redbirds! I'm pumped for this.