So I was a little sick earlier this week, which for various reasons meant I didn’t get to the LSA. So you can imagine how happy it made me to be told how wonderful it was. As we say around these parts, there’s always next year.

There’s one point about Rosanne’s report that I’d like to expand upon, because it is becoming a pet peeve. She notes that it’s worth getting to papers early because that’s the only way to get handouts, and handouts are crucial to following most talks. But this should be unnecessary. Speakers should bring more than enough handouts. Unless you do the photocopying at the hotel, the marginal cost of an extra handout is virtually zero and the the marginal cost of having one too few is enormous. The trick is to make a reasonable guess about how many people will turn up (and don’t be modest – you will have a big crowd – you’re good enough, you’re smart enough and gosh darn it people like you) and then make many many more handouts than that. (Be sure to use recycled paper if you are really make millions of copies though.)