[H-GEN] Activitives at Humbug

[Gary Curtis]

On 2/25/06, Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote:
> On 2006-02-25, Stephen Thorne wrote:
>
> > I do not go to HUMBUG in order to watch TV shows.
>
> Nor do I.  And I find the idea of imposing them on those who to
> meetings for the purposes of Humbug activities to be extremely
> antisocial.

On the contrary, I believe a small amount of video at meetings
is quite social.  The quantity of video shown at this week's meeting
was excessive, and likely gave rise to the original comment.

> > For future meetings, I would appreciate it if TV was an opt-in
> > activity handled in a way that does not inconvenience or frustrate
> > HUMBUG attendees who are not interested in multimedia activities.
>
> Speaking for myself, I'd like to see all TV stuff banned at the
> meetings.  Anybody can watch TV at home any time.  Let's use the
> Humbug meetings to do the things that we can't do at home alone.

Sure you can watch TV at home, alone. You can also sit at your
computer and code/surf/blog/whatever at home, alone.  HUMBUG
is a social event, and watching some geek, pommy humour is a
social activity.  Watching four episodes in the one night was way
too much.

I do not favour banning video at meetings. I do think, however,
that if people wish to watch more than [say] one 30 minute
episode, they refrain from using the big screen.

Cheers,  Gaz