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comment by b_b

Depends where the conference is. I recently got asked to present someone else's work (a project on which I was more or less a consultant) at a conference that the main author couldn't attend due to scheduling conflict. I declined. Because it was in New Haven, CT. If it were in the Caribbean, or maybe even CA or FL, I would've gone in a heartbeat. But New Haven? Fuck that all to hell.





Run_Train  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

new haven rules

b_b  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't really have an opinion of it. I wasn't specifically trashing New Haven; just sayin' that if I'm going anywhere in March, it better damn well be a place I can have a cocktail on the patio. I live in Detroit, and it's been cold as balls here since about mid-December. Kinda over it by now.

Cumol  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I will send you some sun when I am back home (Israel/Palestine) :D

Cumol  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It was in Dublin (I am in Germany right now) and one of the bigger european conferences in our field of work.

b_b  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I've never been to Dublin, so I might be perturbed.

Cumol  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I bet dublin is beautiful!