Attending An Environmental Conference Gifts

Earth Day Summit.

A Puppet Named Juan

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

'I've learned a lot about myself at these meetings...like, I can fall asleep with my eyes open!'

The interested bystanders.

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

"'Meetingpalooza' sounded better in the brochure."

"And finally, I'd like to take any questions from the floor."

'Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure my little talk has made you all think'

I've been looking forward to this the whole year: It can get lonely out there...

"We serve danishes because that's just how I roll!"

World Food Summit - No food and drink allowed in the auditorium.

Conference Pears

'Is that a suspicious package in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?'

'And in conclusion.'

'You think he overheard my last lecture on tax code revision?'

Is that one of those wafer thin computers?

Communication Breakdowns

Chaos Theory Conference.

John couldn't help but think that his team had a different perspective on the event than he did...

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

'Pick a business card.'

'The cannon will go off every 20 minutes just to make sure you're paying attention,'

"What's Tim doing on the window ledge?"

'I need to appear bold and decisive. Won't someone PLEASE ask me a yes or no question?'

"I'm feeling a lot of love in the room - with the exception of that guy over there."

"Woo-hoo!"

Giant screen displays conference delegates and not the speaker.

AI Summit

Weinberg's egregious error would damage his reputation forever, His colleagues would thereafter refer to him as 'the big double dipper,

"Dr Andrea Patterson; animal behaviour."

"Psychiatric convention"

"Remember this? One sweetheart of a deal!"

'No, you haven't missed much. Pretty well everyone called in sick.'