[baylisa] Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Sun Jan 29 01:49:08 PST 2006

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This exact sentiment is why I do not go to BayLisa meetings.  It's  
embarassing. The last time I came,
I brought 8 friends & colleagues with me, for Brent's speech on  
Incidient Command for IT. Every 5 seconds
somebody was interrupting to ask about ham radio or some other  
irrelevant tech.

Ladies & gentlemen, when somebody is speaking, you shut up, and  
listen to them. Did your parents ever
teach you how to be polite, and not to interrupt?

On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:33 AM, David Alban wrote:

> Yes!  I'm glad my inside voice didn't make it "outside" last night.
>
> Perhaps, for those folks who might perceive this as a limitation on
> creativity/speech/etc., a compromise, voluntarily self-imposed by
> willing individuals, might be:  everyone limit yourself to one,
> simple, easy-to-communicate, non-compound question without follow-ups,
> before the presentation is over, then go nuts.
>
> On 1/27/06, Danny Howard <dannyman at toldme.com> wrote:
>> while I found the presentation
>> engaging, I had this growing desire to jump up on the desk and  
>> yell at
>> everyone to just shut up for half an hour and let the guy present ...
>> but that would have been overly stereotypical SysAdmin behaviour,  
>> which
>> would have defeated the point.  And while I would have phrased my
>> suggestion that everyone shut up politely, I didn't want to be the
>> guy-who-never-shows-up-then-proposes-that-BayLISA-change-its- 
>> format-halfway-through-the-presentation.
>
> --
> Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
>

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