Ideas Festival

I went to the ideas festival on the weekend. And as the name suggests it was all about ideas. Basicly a whole bunch of lectures on different topics, presented by intelectuals/academics/specialists. Every lecture was interesting. Its sort of thing you wouldnt mind seeing at uni occasionaly. Lots of smart people talking about smart stuff. The event seems to be held every 2 years. So go check it out in 2008. The main reason for attending the festival was because there was all day demonstrations for robowars.

The lectures were very interesting and get you thinking about things, and actually doing something about it rather then just complaining like a lemming (do lemmings winge?). The whole experiance was very stimulating. Also it was mostly free, a few lectures you had to pay to get into. I only did this once, and it was worth it.

I also got to drink a lot of coffee. Which I think I am still feeling the effects of. Yawn. Tired. What happened was I only managed to get 3 hours of sleep the night before which meant I had coffee after the first lecture, then more coffee as we missed that lecture getting the first coffee. After, what seemed like 5 coffees I felt mildly awake.