i think i figured out what does it. Why it is that so many folks get sick after conventions.
It's not the vast sea of various infected humanity impacted against each other like bucolic sardines. It's not the fact that air doesn't so much circulate as get blown by the near constant din of conversation. It's because nobody can bloody well afford to eat.
Honestly, paying $16 for a turkey sandwich with some sort of congealed cheese substitute created from bits of hardened crisco, which was soggy enough to quite possibly constructed by mermen (or at least shipped in from the lost city of Atlantis, which REALLY makes you wonder how the hell they managed to get turkey down there), or even $4 for a 16 ounce bottle of water. One starts to look at the various hand outs and leaflets like Euell Gibbons used to look at pine trees. Of course, matters are only made worse by the fact that the free food that is handed out is either moderately alcoholic or possibly reminiscent of the stuff one finds in the mini-bar.
Kind of makes one wonder whether or not the most popular booth at any given show would be one that stocks fresh fruit and water late in the day, or possibly a nice leafy salad. Granted, you'd probably have to sit through some presentation about the future of consumer-oriented social interface dynamic pigeon farming or something, but at that point, it'd be well worth it.
Honestly, if it wasn't for the opportunity to meet up with folks i've not seen in years, i'd skip the whole affair.
Actually, that is a bit more what conferences are like. Know how you never see your family unless someone's getting married or buried? Geek conferences are like that.
Except with family, you don't have to pony up $10 an ice cube.
Wonder if i can simplify things by bringing a white gift and wearing a dark suit.
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Don't forget that if the convention is out of town, you get crammed into a flying bus with a couple hundred other sneezing and coughing people.