{"id":3826,"date":"2022-03-26T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2022-03-26T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T14:57:56","slug":"own-the-con-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/own-the-con-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Own The Con 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Discussion of how long Bruce and Heidi have been married. Sixteen years this summer. My wife and I have been together fifteen in a few years (but only married for evelven).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember back in the day bringing my then-girlfriend with me just so they could come close to selling out. 2008-ish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For potential speakers, you need to follow directions exactly. (I wrote the beginnings of a talk in probably about 2010. I had about 40 minutes of speaking, and half a slide deck. I started going through potential questions from an audience, and got to one I couldn’t answer….and it was a question that really related to the heart of the presentation….so I gave up, and just bought a ticket.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ticket sales glut has kind of ended after they put the kibosh on second-hand ticket sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That actually makes me feel a bit better about my tentative intention at this point to do the Shmooze-A-Student again. If I’m financially able, I’ll buy a ticket for a kid, and sell my ticket to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physically, I can’t do this anymore. Much of what I did yesterday was sitting in my hotel room watching the stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally when I was younger, I really appreciated the new experiences that came along with being in DC. The novelty has more than worn off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They saved a lot of money this year by not having the drink-a-palooza on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever been to one of those. But they’re really not earning money on any of this, and are paying taxes on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I’ll avoid going in go off on my bit about income taxes. More than half of the people who file don’t pay any<\/span><\/strong><\/em> income taxes<\/a>. Payroll taxes are not taxes; they are contributions to the bankrupt Ponzi schemes that are Social Security and Medicare)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close up was a potential giveaway of a (Dude-your-gettin-a) Dell server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no place for toys like that anymore, unfortunately. And if I was going to get a nondescript Dell server, I think I’d like something with an Italic processor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they’re loud as hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I swear I’ll get many of the notes on other talks up over the next few days. As I said, I really don’t have the energy to do this con stuff anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discussion of how long Bruce and Heidi have been married. Sixteen years this summer. My wife and I have been together fifteen in a few years (but only married for evelven). I remember back in the day bringing my then-girlfriend with me just so they could come close to selling out. 2008-ish? For potential speakers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shmoocon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}