Current mood:

tired

observations on geeks (pt 2) and other stories
So, as well as the class of geek I have classed as the Adrians, there is a class of geek we will now refer to as the Alexes. These are the anally retentive geeks who won't let you experiment and play with things because it might possibly be a little silly. Commonly identified as stick in the muds. They spend so long thinking something through, that they never actually get to do it. They like to populate positions of pseudo-power, like being conference organisers. Resultantly, when you have developed a neutrally buoyant helium balloon and aluminium can rig, they sulk when you try to test it out. It seems that this species of geek has either been burnt in the past, and refuses to get back on the horse, or lacks the lateral problem solving skills to work out how to undo any unforseen side effects.

Two speakers dropped out of the conference, forcing the organisers to have to refactor the talks for the day. They managed to completely bust the time I had spent finding swaps to keep the talks in interesting, related streams; even though I feel that they could have kept it so that related talks could have been kept sequential, rather then simultaneously. In general, I think the organisers are awfully stressed, and should in general try to lighten up. I don't recall anyone being anywhere near that serious in Perth.

In other news, I have a purple shirt, it makes me undetectable if I remain still. Hopefully this is more coherent then my last couple of posts, however the lack of sleep makes structured language hard. Topic focus is not a skill I currently have. The organisers should smile more.