The number of people who’ve come up with words of support and encouragement to the organisers after last night has been great.

A couple things worth mentioning -

One person talked about not having read the programme, but when Tim L asked the audience to tell the person sitting next to them what they were interested in (hearing speakers speak about), he found it a bit uncomfortable:

Him: “Um, so, what interests you?”

Her: “Oral Sex”

(He was unaware of Prof. Basil Donovan’s upcoming talk entitled, Oral sex is the new black).  Anyway, what an icebreaker.

Like many of the team pulling together IS3, I missed dinner so I grabbed a banana at the interval.  I have to admit I had an uncomfortable moment when I realised I was chatting to the good professor chomping on a banana.  Suddenly I felt a bit self-conscious. The thought popped into my head “Freud would have a field day.”

This is the third event and each time I’m struck by how different things engage different people.  The same talk will ring totally different bells with different people.

Check out Tim Longhurst’s quick run through on the speakers, as told through Google’s Street View.

Hats off to Charlie Perry for not just thinking about someone who has something to put on stage, but following through and sending in a nomination form for IS4 (Charlie – Please send me your contact details.  Remo gave me an extra IS T-Shirt and it’s yours).

Everyone knows of someone with a tale to tell.  It might be quirky.  It might be challenging.  It might be odd.  It might be fun.  There are few forums where the criteria for talks is so open.  So if you know of someone who’s got something engaging to say, please click on the link with the topic form, fill it out and send it in.

There’s nothing decided yet for IS4 (date? venue?), but nothing helps move things along quicker than a bucket of stories that need to be told.

Gregg