Well it was .... well, what do you know: it actually was interesting.
It was also a little bit thirtysomething, Mrs Botogol and I must have been - what? - 10 years above the average age. Well, judge for yourself, there we are in the picture... if you can spot us.. Either way, I was glad I had had my one-and-a-half on Thursday.
Twenty-Nine speakers, with between 4 and 20 minutes each on a range of topics from Lego (a highlight) to Winston Churchill; from Acoustic Cosmology (cough) to scotch eggs and all led by the lugubrious yet excitable Russell Davies
I guess eclectic is the appropriate word.
My favourite: a cleverly constructed ten minutes from Matt Webb where a stream of apparently random ideas dovetailed together to prove that before the Europeans arrived there was a different sort of physics in Patagonia. Yes, you at the back, you can smile.... but....
A lowlight: don't you just hate Mexican Waves?
An interesting fact: did you know that horses have a great big blind-spot right in front of their faces? Given that this is an animal capable of forty-miles an hour that seems to pretty much spell curtains for intelligent design.
I spent the breaks planning my smash-hit appearance at Interesting2009. But what to talk about? I am torn between My-experience-on-the-fourth-plinth, and J P Alibert: Hero of Botogol
3 comments:
10 years and the rest ;-) !!
Per chance are you the crinklely ol' fogies on the front row with the hearing aids on, bespectacled and no longer able to experience life first hand :-)
hmm - you must be confusing us with some other old geezers :-)
What ho, bogotol! Now then, what's all this about Mozart, eh? Try Thomas Atwood for a change - he's English, by the way.
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