As threatened/promised

MOST of these things did not happen at this year's conference. I have seen a few of them (food running out, "dominance mounting" of grad students, flashdrive won't read, skipping of breaks, theft from display tables) happen at different conferences down through the years. Some of the more ridiculous ones (drunk speaker, vomiting grad student) are plausible but I have never seen them.

Let’s play…..

CONFERENCE PROBLEM BINGO!!!!!!!!!!

Food runs out at banquet or mixer	Big famous guy doesn’t show up to give plenary talk	Power outage	Pages in proceedings inserted upside-down	Projector bulb burns out during plenary
Someone with an incomprehensible accent giving a talk	Someone’s abstract left out of proceedings	Conference room is 20 degrees too hot	Not enough chairs in room	“We ran over time with the last few talks so let’s just skip the break”
Semi-famous bitter person asks “dominance mount” question of grad student	Theft from university-press vendor’s table	FREE SPACE	Speaker is drunk or high	Overzealous “parking control” tickets people with conference tags on their cars
Heated argument breaks out during “question” session of a talk	Band at evening mixer too loud; no one can talk	Remote control breaks	Conference room is 20 degrees too cold	Computer won’t read presenter’s flashdrive
Moderator fails to moderate and session becomes extremely out-of-synch with others	Really tall people in front row of audience; no one else can see slides	No refreshments provided at break/refreshments greatly delayed	Grad student giving first conference talk ever faints or throws up	Poster room has lighting too dim for anyone to read the posters