I probably won't post again until next week, after I'm finished with this conference. Of course, I have to attend another about two weeks after that. I'm sure that won't eat up any of my time.

Here are some pre-conference observations in no particular order:

• Conference clothes are lame, but fashion rules are even lamer.
• Overpriced conference hotels suck, not to mention food and alcohol expenses.
• "Networking" sucks, but becomes increasingly tolerable as blood alcohol level increases.
• Your research is not as exciting or as interesting as you think it is. More people should remember that.
• Warning: There is a variable threshold for blood alcohol level where interesting and exciting become irritating and boring. Chances are you'll find it. Buying drinks for your audience may delay this qualitative change, however.
• Smaller poster sizes from previous years sort of sucks. They're cheaper to make, but limit your content.
• Statistical methods for qualitative data suck, especially compared to quantitative methods.
• Using complex, obscure statistical methods when something simpler is available doesn't make you cool.
• Not testing to ensure your data meets test assumptions of your analyses is lame.
• Non-normally distributed data suck, but not as much as missing observations.
• Outliers suck, but then again outliers can be very interesting and informative.
• Non-parametric statistics are useful, even if people seem to forget about them.
• R kicks ass.

Oh. Blogging sucks too.

And editing.

That is all.