Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions? Message-ID: <81736@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 30 Jun 91 17:25:07 GMT References: <1991Jun23.041220.19684@looking.on.ca> <1991Jun25.194457.8695@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: urth.acsu.buffalo.edu ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) writes: | |NB: if you want humid, wait'll you get to DC in the summer! I was mildly |amused at the open board meeting by the juxtaposition of | |(1) complaints about the heat/humidity; and |(2) the number of hands that went up in approval of DC as a site. DC was a wonderful place for the last usenix held there. of course it *wasn't* the summer meeting. then again some things can balance a poor climatic choice just as some things can exacerbate it. -- pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms (Bitnet) opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.