[PLUG-TALK] Greetings from Mordor

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 06:55:15 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Keith Lofstrom<keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> Howdy!  I'm in Redmond Washington inside the Microsoft Conference
> Center to give a couple of presentations at the Space Elevator
> Conference.  About competing visions, of course.  I'm not sure
> whether the Microsofties or the Space Elevatorists are going to
> chase me out of town first.  No, the've been very nice, the
> Kool Aid is tasty, and the incision for the implant is healing
> nicely.
>
> Who cares if the free wifi blocks my VPN, and their podium
> computer won't allow me to use Flash or Javascript in my
> presentations?  That meant I used my own laptop, displaying
> a 60 foot wide "ubuntu" on two screens.  :-)
>
> My wydiwys presentation, with raytraced animations, blew away
> all the Powerpoints .   It is amazing what you can do with open
> source tools.  Slides and papers at http://server-sky.com/SEstatus
>
> So it has been fun so far.  Maybe I will get to meet Sauron and
> Saruman.

You mean Bill and Steve?



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