[Shameless Plug] -- Embedded Systems Conference

Hey, it worked on Gwen Stefani.

Are they closed union shop like the Eastern ones? I hate having to pay those guy to do trivial stuff. Dreyage, my a**. 8-( And an electrician every time, even if the stuff just plugged in.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Someone presented a $1,200 expense report for a one night stay: claimed it was because the hotels were so expensive. Wouldn't have anything to do with a pair of hookers? Nah....

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Years ago I was setting up an exhibit in Brooks Hall, the old SF WESCON venue. I got knocked on my ass from a union-electrician-supplied power pigtail that had hot and ground interchanged.

So yeah, better let the people in charge do the work for you...

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Unless a customer is paying, anything over 1,000 Miles is just not considered. Price is not the issue, it's just policy.

BTW the last time I went to SF, it was an hour and a half each way from SJ motel to the Conference, and if you drove Parking was so far away you needed a bicycle to get to the hall.

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Read the article in the MAG. Fairly simplified and quite useful for explaining to management. However the Thermal side was very over simplified. Our app required 5 to 9 zone control of a cylindrical furnace (semiconductor processing. (LPE and CID) so the interaction and variation due to horizontal and vertical tubes were of major concern.

Fortunately, I do not do the Process Furnaces anymore, that customer was bought and the entire factory moved out. (We do system level consulting.)

I read in sci.electronics.design that Tim Wescott wrote (in ) about '[Shameless Plug] -- Embedded Systems Conference', on Sun, 9 Jan 2005:

I thought this thread was about a connector with exposed male and female members.(;-)

Jacob Javits Center? I've never done that venue, but I've heard stories.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Your PHBs totally lost control then. We have a meal and hotel "allowance" that was foisted on us because of idiots like this. Last I checked a couple hundred a night wasn't unreasonable for a hotel room in SF (maybe $150 because of our leverage) and $60ish in food per day. It is one of the more expensive places, but there it makes no sense to arbitrarily make a city off-limits because of a few fools.

Hey, The PHBs sprung for a day off at Thanksgiving. I didn't see it as that big a deal since we're all salaried. The same work had to get done. We'll see what our bonus looks like this year. Last year I made $10K less than five years ago. I'm thinking about moving on... I've done my time.

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Isn't it amazing the accidental nightime damage that can occur as a result of supplying your own ashtrays (back when smoking was good) or anything else.

Why not? It's really a nice place.

Flat, boring, and sleazy both. But Disneyland is great if the lines aren't too long, which they usually are. Los Vegas is The Sickest Place on Earth.

John

Well, San Jose is about five cities away from SF, sort of like staying in NYC for a conference in Boston. There are some cheap, fun places to stay in SF out near the ocean, with just a couple of blocks of walking to the streetcar on each end. And you can walk on the beach for a break. Downtown is pretty much like any downtown, a tourist/businessman ripoff.

SF does have great, cheap food and lots of stuff to do on the side.

John

Oh, that's what that was. I thought it was the sound of knee caps breaking.

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IEEE doesn't do Javits in new York, any more. They use Meadowlands in NJ instead. Too many vendors made their intentions never to return to Javits known.

Jerry

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I did a trade show booth in downtown San Francisco once; never again. There were union goons everywhere, stopping people from carrying anything and posting violation notices on booths if people were plugging in or even using their own lights. On my way out, a huge guy stood in my way and blocked me from leaving with some stuff on a dolly. False imprisonment, seems to me. Another guy off to the side said "are you a guest in the hotel?" I thought for a second and said "Yes" which meant they had to let me take the stuff up to my "room" (ie, a taxicab). The big guy was pissed.

Just after that we did a show in Albuquerque. We shipped the gear to my rep, and he drove it in his pickup truck onto the floor of the exhibit hall, right up to the booth. That was great.

Lately, I'm thinking trade shows aren't worth the hassle, at least as a presenter. Even print ads are dicey. Google gets us most of our business (we think.)

John

Why not Aspen?

John

Good idea. I wouldn't travel to NYC, even when I lived 75mi from Javits. Of course my empoyer wouldn't pay for me to go cross town these days. Which is OK too. Travel is a PITA.

Though I do have to say that the *one* time I wished my wife were with me was on a junket to a M$ WinHEC in Moscone. I stayed in the Crown Plaza uptown SF. I looed out of my room down onto the head-end of the cable cars. That week alone would have bought me a lifetime of get-out-of-jail-free cards. ;-) ...andd I would have only paid a pittance for her!

BTW, WinHECs are crap. 6000+ windows geeks clammoring to get a peak at BillG was just a bit too much for this stomach. At least Intel put on programs with some meat.