On 5/3/2011 1:40, Invisible wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 22:02, Darren New wrote:
>> On 5/1/2011 12:49, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I don't expect us to score highly, and I almost don't care.
>>
>> That's not a bad thing. Go to enjoy, not to win.
>
> Well, we certainly didn't enjoy this. An entire day of being in limbo, being
> almost trampled by the massed hordes, and having no idea what's happening.

You missed an opportunity to meet new friends, talk about other hobbies, 
etc. Heck, sounds like you had enough time to explain monads to someone. ;-)

> Talk about stress...

I can see it being stressful, but just spending the day chilling works too. 
It's a conscious thing - you have to decide that if it's this screwed up, 
there isn't much you can do to improve it, so you just go with it and let it 
crash.

>> Sounds like you learned a lesson, tho. If you ever need to organize
>> something like this yourself, you'll know what not to do. :-)
>
> I still can't believe that there were 3 people who's only purpose for being
> there all day was to know what the running order is, and they somehow didn't
> know what the running order was.

There ya go! :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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