{"id":1000,"date":"2004-11-13T04:51:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:06:04","slug":"speaker-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2004\/11\/13\/speaker-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday was free of sessions but packed with entertainment that R had organised for the speakers. First up was Go-Karting. After brunch we all piled into a bus and drove off to a warehouse somewhere in Frankfurt, where an indoor go-karting track was located. We had a great time, with two trial races to settle the final line-up, then followed by a &#8220;real&#8221; race. I did ok.&nbsp;<em>[Update: Apparently the most-used muscle in go-kart racing is the Gluteus Maximus. I kid you not. Very sore the next day!]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/nov13_simu.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the hotel for a freshening up, then into the bus again, for a trip out to the&nbsp;airport, where the Boeing Simulators are. Heh. They&#8217;re pretty good. You get to dress up in white overalls and booties like the Intel Engineers, then climb aboard a replica of one of several different kinds of aircraft. We got the 747. We sat up in the business class and enjoyed the experiences of losing cabin pressure; aborting take-off; a forced water landing; and exiting the craft via the giant inflatable slides. They are&nbsp;<em>fast<\/em>&nbsp;slides. You can burn your hands from friction which is one reason why the information cards tell you to cross your arms across your chest when you jump out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/nov13_window.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way back from the airport the sun went down. I snapped a picture out of our hotel window, a simple shot of the Frankfurt skyline, looking away from the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening we were all invited to a wonderful dinner hosted by Hans and Gaby Lochmann. This is a regular conference event, apparently, but the first time I&#8217;d been there. Wow. It was also the first time I&#8217;d ever eaten roast goose, red cabbage, and some exquisite fluffy potato dumplings. Divine eating and wonderful hosts. Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repacking everything acquired on this trip wasn&#8217;t such a big deal as we thought it might be. Thanks to L&#8217;s skills and the Amazing Expanding Bag, everything fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday was free of sessions but packed with entertainment that R had organised for the speakers. First up was Go-Karting. After brunch we all piled into a bus and drove off to a warehouse somewhere in Frankfurt, where an indoor go-karting track was located. We had a great time, with two trial races to settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}