I didn’t bring my camera - and Ang has yet to upload the photos - but Dr. Jeffrey Shallit spoke at Guelph last night about misinformation theory. I am much to tired to go into why this next statement is true, so you’ll just have to take my word for it:

Jeffrey Shallit is by far the best speaker I have ever seen as a skeptics event. Including all CFI events, UTSA, Guelph - all of them. He was by far - the best. He was interesting, entertaining, informative and hilarious. He brought prizes for the crowd, which was the cutest thing ever. (Even cuter was that they were really geeky prizes and we all thought they were so incredibly awesome.)

If you ever have a chance to go and see him - goooo! It was so good. I appreciated his talk a lot… I wish we could have pulled in more people for him to talk to (we had just over 60). Hopefully I’ll be able to post a picture of two eventually. I feel like a doofus - I totally forgot my voice recorder and it would have been a great lecture to have recorded because it was super entertaining.

Also - for all you 9/11 crazies (aka my brother) you should head over to his blog and check out all his posts on 9/11 conspiracy theories - they show a ton of great arguments that you should be reading.

Unfortunately Kirk Durston didn’t show up to put on a good debate for us - but he did agree to do a talk on information theory for us in the fall - so I look forward to hearing why the disgusting display of “math” is actually okay in his world.