Le Rant
Posted 1 year ago at 1:50 pm. 5 comments
I felt like writing some rants. Why? Because they’re short and they’re usually fun to write and I don’t actually have to think much about them.
I ended up in Toronto again, that’s twice now within less then 2 weeks. Adam Hewgill, Greg and me went to a Microsoft TechNet Security conference. It was a pretty cool experience, but I don’t really have too much to say about it, except it’s the source of 2 of my rants.
Most of these were from the Q&A session that happened at the end of the presentation. However the first one was from before we got seated. We decided to go to the balcony seating of the theatre like room. And you have to go through these 2 doors to get to the seats on the balcony. But here’s the catch, there are also stairs all the way up and down right next to the seats on the sides of the balcony, but they have bars, literally, every 2 rows that stop you from going up and down them. The hell is that? What sensible purpose is there from making people go back out through 2 sets of doors and go in through 2 sets of doors and you better hope you counted right how many doors you should have gone down, or you’re going to do it again.
Answer: we just jumped over the seats, yep, betcha they didn’t see that one coming at all =P
So, back to the Q&A session.
There were 3 guys, probably around my age, that played on their Nintendo DS systems through pretty much the entire day. I had my DS with me, but I didn’t play it 
Then at the end, they asked a question about Linux that was a very thinly veiled attempt at a dig at Windows. Then, when it got answered, they pretty much repeated it again. Shut up, k, thanks. If you’re going to go down this path, at least think through your question first. I hoped they would join my PictoChat session, so I could elaborate, but they didn’t
Then someone behind us stood up with another question. He was definitely older and seemed more mature, I was prepared to be impressed and educated. “Hi… uhm… so I came here to see the latest and the greatest from Microsoft” — it’s a security focused conference, not a product showcase — “and I have to say I’m greatly disappointed” — oh fuck me — “because BLA, BLA, BLA” — answer from the presenters — “Yeah, I’m going to talk over you now and start an argument” — presenters try to answer again — “But, but, but, but, if you did this” — Adam Hewgill: Dude, shut up! — Presenters: *sigh* — “I’m still not done with my completely annoying talking” — Presenters: you know, that’s great, come down here and we can discuss this more, but we have to move on for now. Thanks — “I’m so angry, I’m going to storm out of the room!”. Seriously now, please follow this easy pattern: if the rest of the audience, including the presenters are looking at you like you’re a complete idiot, you are. Honestly.
On the GO Train (by the way, absolutely no one actually came around to check our tickets on the way there or back) there were some sick people. Some of them made an effort to try and not get others clearly infected with whatever it was they had. Others didn’t. So the lady next to me was definitely sick, and after a while she would cough and cough on her jacket on her arm and then casually take her newspaper and wave it towards me. I’m not sure I could have given her a more unimpressed look then I did, but I didn’t say anything, thank you lady, I now have a sore throat. Thanks!
East Side Mario’s doesn’t let you change the number of people in your reservation. Yep, that’s right, they had to ask the manager to do it. They seemed to not be able to answer my question of what happened if I canceled the first reservation and just made a new one.
More as I think of them.