ACS Boston 2007: Free Alcohol and Free Stuff

[Mitch]

Free Alcohol
Saturday there was free food and alcohol at the Marriott for the Younger Chemist Committee (YCC). It was sponsored by the ACS web team. Fortunately, there weren't many people there so I got more than my share of egg rolls and free booze. That night at the poster session, there was also free alcohol and free turkey which is an interesting combination of food and drink when its already late at night and you've been looking at talks all day.

Monday I will be trying to score some more free food and drink at the CHED poster session 2:30-4, I don't know whether there will be anything, but I'll shortly find out. The Nuclear division has their social hour at 7-9pm tonight, and there should be plenty of free alcohol there. Since, scimix is from 8-10, I'll be there from 9 on.

Free Stuff
Monday is the first day the exposition opens up to us regular folk. The best booths by far have been the following.

Elsevier: Free personal fan that lights up and says, "I'm hot". Which is also true... thermally at least.

Corning: Free M&Ms in their new 200mL plastic vessel

Strem: Which has a nice periodic table for your desk. The best thing about it, it's actually up to date with the newest transactinides (i.e. Roentgenium).

ACS pubs: Free issue of ACS Nano. I dropped by and was hoping to catch an editor there, but the very cute girl from marketing that was managing the desk said they all went home for the day. Mind you, I was there at 10:30AM and the exposition only opened at 9:00AM. However, I did see Ivan there, but he looked overly excited about Hoffman's poetry reading, which in my book is a red flag and signaled it was time to move on.

Nature: Free issue of Nature and Nature Nanotechnology: I went to that booth to try to meet some of their editors. But, no one there knew where they were or what time they were going to show up.

Mitch

[Mitch]

Only free soda and peanusts at the CHED session. Apparently, it was the undergrad poster session.

[enahs]

Around these parts it is illegal to give alcohol away for free!

[Noel]

perhaps the possibility of a new generation of radspin that lights up and says "i'm a thin, homogeneous, crack-free layer of metal oxide?" which is true... at high concentration at least. i miss mitch.

[Mitch]

Does anyone at the conference need to use a computer? No one is guarding the very nice computers in the exhibitor lounge, at the back of the exposition hall (South Wall). If there is a guard, you simply need to highlight the bottom of your badge green. More breaking and entering to continue.

Mitch: Thanks for the warm wishes. See you Thursday.

[Taitauwai]

You guys actually get free beers... so nice. We were served coffee, tea or just plain H2O. Our freebies usually includes pen, note pad, posters of periodic table, pen holder... stuff that you put on your table. Oh.. we get bags too. Just bags. From Sigma-Aldrich. Merck gave out candies. No beers... ;<

[Taitauwai]

Hey Mitch... almost a month. Where are you?

[Mitch]

Yeah, I know. I tend to like to write about cool stuff that I've done in lab or computer program recently. I guess its time for a literature post or something.

[kylefinchsigmate]

Wake up Mitch!

[Mitch]

Okay, Okay. Oddly, there is a chemical mystery I have and will present to the audience at large shortly.