[NicknamedBob]

I am generally prepared to discourse at length on almost any subject.

Normally I would have to be physically dragged from the lecturn to silence me, a function my wife is only too happy to provide.

I worked for a short time at a place where material was introduced in training sessions by a rotating list of conscripted volunteers.

I think they still talk about my presentation.

[Monkey Face]

Ah. (And FRiends wonder how you’ve managed to write so many books....)

[Mycroft Holmes]

I poked at your name and found rather a lot under it. That is going to take me a while to read. BTW, I used to be in an internet writing group with Charlie Stross before he got famous and somewhat rich.

[sionnsar]

I am generally prepared to discourse at length on almost any subject.
Normally I would have to be physically dragged from the lecturn to silence me, a function my wife is only too happy to provide.

I'm not yet a natural at this. But I survived my first speaking engagement, and after that the rest have been comparatively easy. That first one I arrived 9 PM in Beijing (from Seattle, and I do not sleep on planes), met my hosts (I was dependent on their recognizing me), we went to the hotel and were up past midnight going over my presentation with my translator, and at 10 AM (quite jetlagged) I was speaking to some 200 very business-like suits (a Chinese government committee).