Scribbles

On Wednesday night, my good friend and I had the honor of presenting a BOF session in the Marriott.  Unfortunately, we were scheduled at the last possible timeslot at 10:30pm, which overlapped the after-dark bash from 7-midnight.  Never mind that in a predominantly male techy convention we were going against live female rock bands, booze, food, and games, they even hired Dennis Miller to perform right before us.

Having never seen Dennis Miller live before, I can only judge his performance against others I’ve seen.  He routine entertained, but I still felt like he mailed it in.  The guy was reading off notes and just firing off rants without any clear theme or direction. Of course within each rant, he delivered with his exceptional sarcasm and witty language, but that should be auto-pilot for him.  He sort of closed with his usual political rants about how we should support the President, something I’m not sure resonates with the mostly liberal (and European) crowd.

The good news: most people who cared enough to attend our presentation were the hardcore developers  (a good 30-40 of them) that didn’t even bother with the party.  They were clearly tired, but I think they walked away with some good information.  Our goal was to share some of what we learned in our scalability work so others don’t have to go through the grunt work we already did.  We left with a nice memento: the sign Sun posted out the door that announces the BOF titles and schedules.