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From: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH pet peeves
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Date: 28 Aug 89 06:43:46 GMT
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In article <123840@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> herzog@dogwalk.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog, Sun Microsystems, GPD) writes:
>In article <12691@pur-ee.UUCP>, 3ksnn64@pur-ee.UUCP (Joe Cychosz) writes:
>> In article <4400038@m.cs.uiuc.edu> shirley@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>> >
>> >6. Does the tee shirt have to be ugly as sin?
>>     I like the shirt this year.  It's a lot better than last year when
>>     some bozo decide to not have T-shirts in Atlanta.
>
> I'm the one who decided not to have tee shirts in Atlanta.  I was 
> merchandise chair that year.  An unscientific poll the year before
> indicated that people had drawers full of tee shirts and wanted something
> different for a change, so we sold sweatshirts in Atlanta (yeah, I know -
> "sweatshirts in Atlanta in August?" - but these are souvenirs, remember?).

Sweatshits can be handy at SIGGRAPH.  Even in Atlanta or Dalla in August.
Outside it may be +100 degrees, but in the hotels and convention halls they
keep it about 32 degrees.  (Boston was an exception.)  I nearly froze to
death in Dallas.  

My pet peeve:  Why have SIGGRAPH in places like Dallas, Atlanta, Las Vegas
in July and August?  Surely the weather might be nicer earlier or later.
Who's the Bozo that decides this?  (I got to meet Bozo when I was a kid! :-)


John S. Watson, Civil Servant from Hell        ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov 
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