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- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!scollins
- From: scollins@cs.tcd.ie (Steven Collins)
- Subject: Re: SigGraph, Chicago, and Unions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.174354.21574@cs.tcd.ie>
- Keywords: Coffee Break!
- Organization: Trinity College, Dublin (Computer Science)
- References: <1992Aug14.015500.25529@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <BsyK9q.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:43:54 GMT
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- In article <BsyK9q.18s.2@cs.cmu.edu> claude+@cs.cmu.edu (William Welch) writes:
- >
- >Though generally less polite. My favorite story involves a paper
- >session which began to run overtime, and would thus have impacted a
- >scheduled AV coffee-break. Supposedly, the crew began flashing a
- >message on the speaker's monitor: "Stop Talking".
- >
-
- Not entirely true. Its the AV crews responsibility to ensure that the
- speakers are aware of time, and yes they do flick up messages to
- speakers as they over-run, it's nothing to do with the AV crew, its
- simply the staff of the McCormick Centre get over-time the instant time
- runs over so things have to finish spot on or a little early otherwise
- it gets very expensive.
-
- Steven Collins
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