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Fewer comedians, more E3 bloggers.

DeDomenici | Homepage | 01.06.14 - 2:50 a.m. | #

Firstly, thanks for this - because I was there too and I'd already forgotten some of the great talks!

Couldn't agree more that the crackers guy and the printer guy were the lowlights - I did laugh at the cracker guy but he really didn't fit, and I suspect I was mainly laughing because I was enjoying the rest of the day so much! I'm still feeling the after-effects of Lift, which I found really rather moving.

I'm guessing that the comedians are invited to fill the schedule, but maybe as it gets known more widely more people may volunteer to give "proper" talks, that fit the remit - interesting talks on mundane topics.

It was my first Boring - I hadn't been able to make the last one - but I truly hope it's not my last. Terrific day.

MightyMouse | 01.06.14 - 9:10 a.m. | #

The invitation is always there if you'd like to speak next time, DG.

James Ward | Homepage | 01.06.14 - 11:08 a.m. | #

Wow, amazing little film. Conference sounds great too.

teapot | 01.06.14 - 1:13 p.m. | #

Many thanks for this detailed post. I'm still enjoying working my way through all the links that you posted.

Boneyboy | 01.06.14 - 5:52 p.m. | #

Many thanks. Excellent stuff, especially the link to The Lift. Profound, amusing and in some respects, highly disturbing.

Chris | 01.06.14 - 6:15 p.m. | #

I wondered if you were there! So pleased you blogged about this.

Just a couple of points: James Ward did mention in his introduction that Vincent Connare devised Trebuchet; and I'm fairly sure Ali said there were now 5000 ice cream vans, not 500.

dg writes: Agreed, thanks. I meant to type 5000 rather than 500, so that's now been corrected. I've also tweaked the penultimate sentence.

Many thanks, though, for this excellent and comprehensive (and spot on) reminder.

Suse | 01.06.14 - 10:32 p.m. | #

Watching those Youtube clips made me realise I'd forgotten how bad You Bet really was; even as a tube geek the tube map segment hardly makes for gripping viewing.

Whiff | 02.06.14 - 6:49 a.m. | #

There's a Diamond Geyser on Flickr? And she went to the same conference as you? In the words of the late great David Coleman, "Remarkable!"

Charles | 03.06.14 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Jolly good. You've done this so I don't have to. Here's a few links that I was going to put into my version of this. If appropriate, would you mind adding them into yours?

I was going to suggest this video of paint drying to go with Valerie Jamieson (which you've spelt wrong the first time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW5wB8rJ8Zc

I can tell you that the packet of KP Hula Hoops also had a Best Before that was a saturday, which I did in my head using the aforementioned formula. did you notice the comedy stationery names in Dignum's Keynote?

I like to think that Ali Coote's talk was called Tony Fresko Makes 'Em Big! as that's what it said on the first slide.

Here's a version of Impossible Mission playable in your browser online: https://archive.org/details/segasms_Impossible_Mission_1986_Epyx_-_U.S._Gold

Emerald's talk was called My list of all the girls and boys names I could think of (not up)

I made a comprehensive list of the books that John Grindrod mentioned, but I think those blog posts feature the best of them.

Technically, Greg and Georg played a Tiger branded Mini 4-in-a-row Connect Game. The music played was Off Broadway by Werner Tautz: https://play.spotify.com/track/7uSWYgt3MmFjLshyRdIgPL
(The other track was from an Ultra-lounge album and I'm having difficulty tracking it down ATM)

Marc Dean Quinn also failed to point out that if in 1999 you only wanted to print sepia photos, you could have added a photo quality third party sepia cartridge to any of Epson's inkjet lines.

Thank-you for writing all of this up. You are quite, quite phenomenal.

Robert | Homepage | 03.06.14 - 10:54 a.m. | #

Thanks Robert!

The video I've linked to of paint drying is the one Valerie was intending to show, but couldn't.

I've tweaked the title of Emerald's post, and amended the correct brand of the Connect 4 game.

I too made a comprehensive list of the books that John Grindrod mentioned, but thought it best to protect my audience from that level of detail.

And the album "Music for Supermarkets" is amazing.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.06.14 - 9:14 p.m. | #











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