Never be too cool to try something new.
That’s my excuse for finding the Wikimania Speakers’ Lounge, though I was sure that everybody but me would be way too cool to hang out here.
But this room is not empty, although it is by no means as full of speakers as the #wikimania online chat, where the conversation includes some terrifying (to a potential speaker) realtime critiques of speakers onstage.
ai yi yi! This is scary stuff.
In case you, like me, have never been in a speakers’ lounge, there’s good stuff in here. Coffee and juice and ice and bottles of water. And a big bowl of popcorn, and another big bowl (I kid you not) of teentsy-tiny Hershey’s chocolate bars.
I can see I could get myself in big trouble in here. So I’m going to unplug now, turn away from those chocolate bars and the scary stuff in IRC and go hear the 4 p.m. workshop on vandal-fighting.
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