SolidWorks 2009 Press Event - Day 1.75

matt lombard caught me doing a jetlag-induced doze-off during the late afternoon of this press event. see dezignstuff.com/images/ralph.jpg

A commenter on his blog asks if i was snoring. no. another commenter declared that i was rude. true, though a touch less rude than the journalists who chattered loudly amongst themselves during presentations.

for next year, solidworks is tentatively planning on holding the event in rwanda. one of the company's charitable outreaches is to the department of education in rwanda. on other press days, they have flown in the rwandan minister of education. imagine the contrast between rwanda and las vegas.

anyhow, word is that inside solidworks there are two camps: the idealists want the event in africa; the realists prefer it were some place that requires less travel time and fewer inoculation injections.

Comments

[Devon T. Sowell]

Hi Ralph-

I enjoyed meeting you.

Oh yea, go here and scroll to the bottom.
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/devonsowell/

Devon

[Matt Lombard]

Ah, all in good fun. We were all tired. I was bored. I agree that the people who were behind you and talked throughout the presentations were the rude ones of the bunch.

[Mike Puckett]

Ralph,

I guess I was the one responsible for the actual taking of the picture, but its great to see everyone had a good laugh about it. Like Matt said, we were all a bit tired, and some of that stuff being discussed was pretty boreing. Anyhow, it was great to have met you.

Mike

[Ralf Steck]

Hi Ralph,

I was sitting bihind You and I can prove to the public that You weren't snoring :-)

And I was not talking (but checking all of Your weblogs because the presentation was really boring :-)))

The really rude ones were two journalists writiung articles about totally different such as NAS appliances.

Best wishes, Ralf