Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!hela!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions? Message-ID: <1991Jun24.030019.19576@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> Date: 24 Jun 91 03:00:19 GMT References: <1991Jun22.192721.11468@ircam.fr> <1991Jun23.181459.13052@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: Inland Sea Lines: 11 tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes: >As a simple heuristic for optimizing the quality of the conference >facility, I suggest the following: > Rule out any venue whose name contains the suffix "-land". Like, say, Disney-land? -- "FACT: less than 10% of the psychiatrists in the US are actually practicing cannibals." Rod Johnson