I Miss Siggraph!

I only just noticed that The Gund, Cleveland Foundation and George Castanza's non-profit The Human Fund, have all willingly thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars at this Ingenuity thang.

Now as much as I'd like to be hopeful, I don't know if venues are since they are planning to give away loads of wrist bands, but if you plan to throw money at an event wouldn't you want it to be something REALLY arts and technology oriented that could actually be beneficial on a national or even international scale? The first thing that comes to mind of course is Siggraph, now THAT would be money well spent. It's like a nerd convention where people get laid, drink too much, get high and drool over bitch'n SGI computer systems while maybe even taking some classes. Oh yeah, and they have art and interactive what-nots. Until something like that or even the dork fest of E3 comes around, what is the point. Well actually E3 was only really interesting because Gary Coleman was playing jump rope at the Underground Online booth. Anyways.... better yet, use that money to get the Rock Hall inductions here? Even better, create an incentive for teachers and schools to not suck such as buying them a Mustang or something, hell I don't know. Anything that doesn't use a robot in a tutu as it's logo.

Oh but those po' people in New Orleans. Siggraph 2000 was there and so was I. Oh, the fun had! Free goodies, kick ass systems, adorable men who love making out in public, and the parties -- oh kids! I don't really remember much about the city other than a few night spots, the place that lights your table cloth on fire when you order coffee and brandy, my hotel room, the hotel bar and the convention center...but I liked it just the same.