Does anyone know where (or when) the power point presentations will be available from the AHA National Conference?
It was an awesome event but I just couldn’t take notes fast enough!
Thanks
All I can tell you is that at the beginning of the week the email went out to speakers to make sure their presentations were available for posting. I sent mine off then.
They’re being solicited now. We didn’t have time to collect them onsite. Thanks for sending yours Denny!
Mine is still being edited for f-bombs.
I have to add them into the slides to give the appropriate flavor.
No shit! It wouldn’t be the fuckin’ same without 'em! 
I’m sure they were saying “furkin”, not the other thing.
Are you saying people actually used that word at a professional conference? Doesn’t sound like anything I ever attended.
National Homebrew Conference. American Homebrewers Association.
Sorry, that wouldn’t justify it for me. I use the word myself, but there’s a time and a place for it and a conference isn’t one of them in my opinion.
I guess we won’t be seeing you in Seattle then.
I guess if that’s what they think makes them look cool or makes their speeches better, then yeah, I guess wouldn’t be interested. It’s not allowed here, why should it be allowed at a conference? Displays immaturity to me and should be reserved for the bar or the street.
Rant over.
f##kin’ A Bubba :o
The whole PC rap is so overdone these days. BLECCHH. Talk about c**ty… ;D
Which is why I went to Drew’s session. ;D
Besides, I’d seen Denny in Cincy.
NHC is in Seattle next year?
I’ll be there! (BTW, thanks for coming along with us to Stone and Lost Abbey!)
First thing is no one’s paying me to give a presentation. I volunteered my services.
The second is that we have to remember that the best way to educate is to entertain at the same time. If you make people laugh, they pay attention more, they learn more. (I could pull cites for this, but they’re locked away in my partner’s classroom for summer school). In my case, I tell jokes and I use judicious swearing in an empathic way to shock and spice up what could otherwise be a dry and very dull topic of conversation.
So yes, I swear and I joke about it and make it seem like I’m cussing every other word, but in reality it’s a few well chosen spots to goose the audience.
Plus, I quote the great “Inherit the Wind”:
"I don’t swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we’ve got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. "
Yep. You gonna be there?
If you think NHC is anything like any “professional” conference you’ve ever been to, then you probably don’t want to attend.
Are you kidding? Thanks for the ride! It was great meeting and hanging out with you guys.