Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Amazing Charts User Conference June 2008

Yes, I remember now. I was asking because it seemed like about a year ago you were answering tons of questions on networking which helped me a lot. Even tried VNC. It was very cool. I guess I am obsessed with how many different ways to remote into a computer.

Appreciate the information, folks. Sounds like a grand time.

We're downloading AC *tomorrow* to our shiny new network and loading up DNS version 9 for small practice. I'll have a week to practice and then we're live. So, I'm looking forward to your slides on using Dragon with AC, Brian, among the other tasty bits from the conference that would be useful to a new user.

Jim in New Orleans, who thinks this would be a GREAT spot for the next AC conference!

I vote for some place in coastal New England. One it will be easier for Jon and his crew to make and perhaps we'll be able to have a few more there.

Two, this way Bert and myself have no excuse for missing the next one. Hint, Hint....

I hear lobster traps with lots of butter calling. Yum, Yum...

We could do it at my house.

DONE!!!!

Oh and IMP Camp '09 is probably going to be on the Left Coast next year too. There is no way in hell that we are going to be able to afford two trips like that, no less will I be able to get my phobic wife on two transcontinental flights back and forth. No way, no how... You should have seen her going to Disney World last year (thanks for the great trip Grandma!)

I always wanted to visit Maine and Acadia National Park. Maybe Bangor or one of those coastal towns?

Acadia is just so wonderful to see. We haven't been there in at least 15 years now, since we were daily driving our old '72 Plymouth Scamp that now needs a complete resto. Heck in 1990 it was already old even then.... lol. Man I love that old thing.

Nancy and I were camping just off the main island in a great tent only state park. It was totally pitch black except for the milky way. We laid back on the rear window, sitting on the trunk and watched the meteor showers for what seemed like forever, just drinking a beer or two.

Well, since Adam and I both live in Bangor....there you go. My parents honeymooned in Acadia. I think they met Paul and Nancy there.

East coast sounds good, I may try to make a real vacation around it, traveling that far. This one was fun, and it included 19 hours of driving with 2 kids and dancing around a tornado. It was still worth it, wouldn't have missed it for the world. I'm looking forward to next year.

I guess I am like one of those storm watchers. I mean tornados do horrible damage and take lives, but they are beautiful to watch.

OK, I wish just one person would say just ONE bad thing about the conference so I wouldn't feel quite so bad.

Unfortunately, you can't see much when you are hit with torrential rains followed by marble sized hail. That is usually a sign a tornado is near. Another clue is when the sirens go off. We had to pull off the road just before our exit to Route 65, (another 40 miles or so to go). We looked around for a drainage ditch to go into in case we actually saw the tornado. We saw nothing.

We gradually proceeded, listening to the weather forcaster who was going on the doppler readings suggesting that a tornado was likely. We stopped at a gas station about 1/2 mile away and discovered that the roof had been ripped off a furniture store another 1/2 mile further south (the direction we were headed). We took our time in proceeding.

Nerve racking, not much to see.

Other than that ...

Bert the Chicken dinner in the main restaurant wasn't up to the standards of the rest of the menu. Although I must say that the waiter asked about the chicken in detail, (the menu was new) and since we told him the chicken was a little disappointing he brought us desert on the house, and the desert was absolutely spectacular. I hope this helps. :-)

@Wendell Great description! It was like I was there. It still must have been exciting.

@Martin Now, THAT was funny.

Very exciting in retrospect. Sorry, there are just not a lot of bad things to say. Hopefully we will see you at the next one. Notice no one is saying will there be another, but rather when and where.

I guess we will have to put Jim Blaine on the AC staff so he can organize the next one. He seems to have a gift for this.

They offered bagels only the first morning. I really like bagels so I was disappointed they were not there the following mornings. That's the only bad thing I can think of. Oh yea, the first night I ordered a Zinfadel and got a red but, I swallowed my pride and drank it anyway

Leslie

And what is so bad about a good red now??? Was it a good red?

Well, there you go. I would find it hard to attend a conference where a Zinfandel was treated so casually and with such disregard. I can hardly live without my favorite wine made from the grape that many thought originated from southern Italy but us true wine connoisseurs know originated in Croatia.

The buffet was very good. I ate cereal standing up the rest of the time, due to Conference responsibilities & churning stomach from pre-speech butterflies -- yes, I still get them!

I am not a great fan of the reds. Probably because I so vividly recall all the Cold Duck I drank in college, much of which ended up second hand on the fluorescent orange bedspread...not a pretty sight!

Leslie

You ordereda Zinfindel and got a red instead? Zinfindel is red. Uh, unless you ordered a white zin.

That must be it.

Cold Duck is barely what I would call a "good" red. Now a good Cabernet, Cab Frank, Merlot, those are the kinds of things I call a good red. I have to wonder seeing how cheap and broke most college kids are, just how good a cold duck you were starting with there anyway... Cold Yuck?

I'm with Bert though. Any place that could treat good wine with such disrespect, I'm just not sure Nancy and I could find it in ourselves to attend....

Glad to hear you guys had such a great time.

Actually I ordered a blush. The following night they served Beringer's version at the wine and cheese fiesta.

Leslie