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Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You
An anonymous reader writes "The Boring 2012 Conference, the celebration of unexciting things served with dry British humor, now belongs to the wastepaper basket of history. Correspondents at the third annual London conference report that speakers covered a range of such dull topics as supermarket self-service checkouts; a photographic survey of results produced by breakfast toasters; a web site tracking the physical heights of celebrities; and the use of Google Maps to the chart the location of IBM cash registers around London." Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating.
I accidentally misread "a photographic survey" as "pornographic survey" and for a fraction of a second this article became more interesting.
Then I re-read it and the feeling subsided.
my 677 page summary of proceedings — it's in point 8 Times New Roman, three columns to the A5 page.
"Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating".
How would you know that?
They sound like extremely stereotypical technology demonstrators. So I wanna show off my new statistical analysis / HBASE backend /AJAX presentation / wiimote controlled scala classes, but I've got no data at work that's non-proprietary to share with the world, so you get ... um ... a database of movie star height, yeah thats it.. True, they could be "ancient" technology that's not really new anymore, or they could be poorly done demonstrations, but optimistically they could be pretty interesting. Or at least good for a laugh (ha ha ha I was doing that back in 2008, etc)
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
. . . that location information of them might be useful . . . and profitable.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
They need to be more authentic, and go to Boring, Oregon: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Boring,+oregon&hl=en&ll=45.431226,-122.353363&spn=0.580164,1.231842&sll=39.531771,-76.822755&sspn=0.019926,0.038495&hnear=Boring,+Damascus,+Clackamas,+Oregon&t=m&z=10
I'll note that there is also a Boring, Maryland northwest of Baltimore (The City That Breeds). However, the proximity of DC means that something interesting could happen. For example, a hardcopy of ObamaCare could fall on you, causing injury.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Please tell me Ben Stein narrated the slideshow of toasted bread pictures.
Better known as 318230.