Re: [81attendees] are we getting complacent? Good job!

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 10:21 AM +0900 8/8/11, Randy Bush wrote:

>   > I did a lot of research, but to avoid an overnight in NRT/TKO had to
>>  take a once-a-day domestic connection, then a taxi, then a train, then
>>  another taxi.
>
>  the way to avoid an overnight in nrt is to not fly there.

I said that I could have done that, but it would have forced a 
different carrier and hence a downgrade.

>  as ted said:
>
>>>  Traveling to IETF requires a bit of advance planning.  If you do the
>>>  homework, which mostly involves asking people who know the area what
>>>  to do, you get there, and it's not a problem.  If you don't, you have
>>>  a difficult time.

As I said, I did oodles of research.  One could argue about the 
merits of such research versus, say, reading or writing drafts, but 
that's a different point.  The assertion that only people who failed 
to do research experienced problems is silly.

-- 
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal;    facts are suspect;    I speak for myself only
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But, something that only exists in thought is even better, as
you can read for yourself in my favorite book of (English)
verse and drawings, "The Space-Child's Mother Goose" (Verses
by Frederick Winsor, Illustrations by Marian Parry, Simon and
Schuster, 1958, unfortunately out of print):
    I have a pet hen whose name is Probable. She lays eggs in
    concept, being a sophist bird.  But not in reality at all;
    those would be inferior eggs; for thought is superior to
    reality.
--unknown