I'm back from my work trip to the conference about...computers? Or whatever.
It was on the Gold Coast, the most depressing place on earth. I know it's all sunny and beachy and stuff, but my God is it grim. Nothing but tract housing and golf courses and this abomination. Happily, I was confined to the hotel for the three days I was up there, so there was very little chance I would have to interact with anyone called Tayhnee or Brayndyn.
My role was to stand at our booth and try to get people to sign up to the newsletter, which I did for three days running, from 8:30am to 6pm. I did have five colleagues there (whose names I am still a bit hazy on - in my head I think of them as Shouty Bald Man, Smiley Bald Man, Sad Potato Man, The Earring-Suit and Captain Bland) who were supposed to come and give me a break at points throughout the day, but the only time I saw any of them was when the drinks came out in the evening. But it was fine, I made my own friends and coerced them into bringing me me snacks and freebies from other booths, which they duly did - behold my loot;
And I managed to get myself on the front table for the awards ceremony, right next to The Talent - Tripod and Corrine Grant, who I tipsily introduced myself to; she wrote quite a good article about female comedians and I wanted to tell her I thought it was quite good, but as I started talking to her I suddenly felt embarrassed about accosting someone at random - not because she's been on the telly, just because it feels like an odd thing to do to anyone - and ended up rambling a little bit then trailing off mid sentence. Then I drank some more wine and went to the bar where I made some more friends (or at least got talked at by some people for a while). Then everyone decided to go into Sufers Paradise and keep drinking, and I decided to go to bed. I managed not to embarrass myself or the company, and it all went as well as could be expected. All in all, not a bad junket.
To finish, here are some slogans from t-shirts I saw at the conference, which will give you an idea of the kind people attending;
- Weapons of a Security Warrior
- World's #1 Hacker
- Earthling
- Ethical Hacker
- Resistance is Futile
- A great Han Solo and Chewbacca as Calvin and Hobbes shirt that I have to have
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