I get that too.
I don’t think it’s burning but rather the roughness of the french bread crust.
It doesn’t have to be hot, french bread crust just scrapes the roof of your mouth to ribbons.

(Editor’s Note: Yes, I’m sure. Flattered that the sign is cool enough to be mentioned in boring keynotes though.)

So I think that the smell is related to the oil excreted from the pores of old people, since you can smell it on clothes.

Good luck in your olfactory quest!

Hi Mike, out of all the “web” conferences to attend where one could learn about upcoming technology and just get a lot of good information, which one would you attend?

Anyone else have opinions on that question? Thanks.

If you live in the Northwest, I recommend the Webvisions conference here in Portland (I’m not affiliated with them, either). It’s short, inexpensive and has a pretty high signal to noise ratio. It looks like this year’s line-up isn’t fully fleshed out, yet. But it’s getting there….

I, too, tried Crest’s new Pro-Health mouthwash and let me just say that when this bottle is finished, I’m going back to Listerine Original flavor. Pro-Health leaves a really weird aftertaste in my mouth for up to an hour after I’ve used it.
I don’t tend to have bad breath, even after something like pizza because I drink buckets of green tea, which, BTW, does a better job at killing stuff in your mouth than anything short of Listerine. It inhibits germs and plaque from forming on your teeth, as does, strangely enough, cheddar cheese. A little dental trivia there that I validated with dentist back in December.

Slainthe!

Stupid me.

The worst part was that I was sitting watching 24 later on that evening and I could feel this flap of skin haning down from that bit just behind your front teeth. It turned out I had burned the first layer of skin form the top of my mouth with one bite.

Bugger.

I would be happy to hook up with you and golf though if you’re ever in town again…

William

80%? And people thought this year was worse than last year? Wow. I was pretty pleased overall with this year, and SXSW is notorious for being a basically low-content experience. I thought last year was so bad I almost didn’t come back (and I live in Austin), but this year I’d say was about 80% good.

What annoys me every year is just how lazy many of the presenters are. I’m all for breaking down the barriers between presenter and audience, but a lot of people just don’t really prepare. Frankly Jeffrey Zeldman is one of the worst at this–his talks and panels have been amazingly poor.

You gotta just walk out and pick another one if it isn’t happening: I avoided every panel or talk that mentioned “blogs” and I thought that worked fairly well.