disengage · 2004-11-15 21:36
Back home, very tired. Wonderful conference, as others have pointed out. Great to see so many people, many of which I hadn’t met before – even though it was small (25 people), I still didn’t manage to get to speak with everyone (and everyone was someone I wanted to speak to). Thanks to Andrew (and Molly) for organising it! I had an actual good idea at the conference (and a few thousand bad ones), which is a rarity – normally ideas come some time after. The mixed format of presentations and workshops was a great idea.
My presentation is here (ppt – 550k, pdf – 2.1M). It probably doesn’t make much sense on its own, as for once I managed to give a talk where the slides are just a foil for me. Anne will have to wait for a write up ;)
a certified macfest
We went on a psychogeographic walk on Saturday, and ended up walking through lots of sidestreets.
Drinks In De Wildeman, a fantastic pub with no music, 200 beers, a no-smoking area and wittily sarcastic waiter who knew his beer. Introduced Timo, Ben, Adam and Matt to Westvleteren, the most reclusive of Trappist brewers, which produces my favourite beer ever (Westvleteren 12) – they only had Westvleteren 8 available, which is not as deep as Rochefort 10, but better than pretty much anything else. Great guest brew on tap as well: Hertog Jan Grand Prestige. However, I think the 10% beer worked against us as the evening wore on!
Dinner saw lots of drawing… I still hurt from so much talking and laughing.
(many many more photos here and here – pics of me nicked from Timo)