That Kid vs. That Guy

The management at the Moscone Center try to prevent a panelist at the Web 2.0 conference from bringing their 4 month old child with them. Kirrily Robert comments:

Yeah. If given a choice between a crying kid who can be taken outside and out of the way, let alone a well behaved kid, and that bearded guy in the second row who’s always interrupting speakers to ask tangential, rambling questions (which, in fact, are actually statements), I know who I’d rather have at my tech conference.

Yeah, I think we all know that bearded guy interrupting panels.

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4 Comments

  1. Joe D
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 6:56 am | Permalink

    Cue the childfree ranters in 3… 2… 1…

  2. Andrew
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 8:06 am | Permalink

    It was only that one time!

  3. Kirrily Robert
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 9:02 am | Permalink

    I was totally thinking of the famous That Guy of Perl (especially YAPC, 2000ish) fame. Did you ever see him in action? Did you ever see Damian Conway deliver the smackdown when That Guy interrupted his keynote at YAPC in 2001? It was a thing of beauty.

  4. Bill Humphries
    Posted April 25, 2008 at 9:20 am | Permalink

    There are so many of them. It’s a big problem at Science Fiction conventions, including WisCon.

    So I’d guess TGoP, or someone like him, is also doing the same thing at his regional.

    Hey, we have Childcare at WisCon though.

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