Home from Capclave

Good convention -- great people, well-attended panels, interesting conversations, and if the hotel was somewhat less than par, we barely noticed. I will definitely be adding it to the rotation of conventions I attend.

(alas, the picture I took of the driver stuck in traffic in the row next to us, reclining with his shoeless feet out the window, talking on his cell phone, did not come out well enough to be worth posting. But it was definitely a bright and amusing moment in the seemingly endless traffic crawl through Maryland)

Great to see people (and take their money at poker), and introduce new folk to single malt (and find a few new bottles mysef), and sign many copies of things, and I will hold those memories as I dive into the rather busy week to come....

ripped from the headlines...

of the New York Times, specifically.

"Jeffrey K. Skilling, the most vilified figure from the most notorious financial scandal of the decade, was sentenced Monday to 24 years, four months in the harshest sentence yet in the case that came to symbolize corporate fraud in America.

...Skilling, insisting he was innocent yet remorseful in a two-hour hearing, was the last top former official to be punished for the accounting tricks and shady business deals that led to the loss of thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in Enron stock and more than $2 billion in employee pension plans when Enron collapsed.


ETA: "Skilling will also be forced to forfeit $45 million, which prosecutors said would effectively wipe out his fortune." Me: awwwwww... oh wait, no. good.


It's not justice -- justice would have involved small rabid rodents and dull razors -- but it'll do.