Spod-U-Like
Posted: Mon 17 October, 2005 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Euro OSCON 2005, Thoughts, Travel, Work-related |3 Comments »One of the *cough* benefits of this conference is that when you register you get this little cordura “briefcase” emblazoned with “O’reilly European Open Source Convention ’05” (Hello Google), which is all well and good.
However, they are – to be charitable – a bit spoddy. And of course they advertise that a) you’re a geek, and b) the carrier of said bag is more than likely to be a tourist, carrying laptop etc. in said bag. Ergo, it could help to make you a bit of a target too.
Mine’s already back in the hotel room, and everything transferred over to the normal backpack. Makes much more sense to me. But anyway, it’s still surprising to me just how many of the people here are actually using the bags, and lugging them around with them.
Mind you, there’s also a truly disproportionate number of Apple Macs here today. I’m definitely in the minority for having a non-Mac laptop, and even further in the minority for running Windows 2000. Which, of course, suits me fine.
I do, though, think that this laptop’s days are numbered ( especially since seeing that Flybook site) – it’s running horrendously slowly, and also the battery life is beginning to die off badly. Damn.
We get those at science conferences too, and it’s always difficult to know what to do with them, even if you do use them while at the conference (and yes – nothing says ‘nerd’ like wandering around a strange city with a name badge and a conference bag). I’ve given several away to friends and relatives who have ‘bag needs’ but I’ve still got a guilty little pile of them sitting in my office. Pity you can’t recycle them, really.
LMAO @ the pictures of the guest speakers on O’reilly’s web site, the creator of Perl looks like a very interesting chap.
Spoddy? Heh. How about running a competition to win the bag?