{"id":618,"date":"2009-03-24T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-03-24T07:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T11:09:13","slug":"im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-demille-the-operations-research-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/24\/im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-demille-the-operations-research-version\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille, the Operations Research Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, the members of INFORMS will receive an email over the next two days.\u00a0 The email outlines some reasons why you should attend the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Conf\/Practice09\">INFORMS Practice Meeting<\/a> (note that you need to register by April 1 in order to get a discount on the registration fee).\u00a0 Part of the email is a video featuring &#8230; me!\u00a0 In my two minute schtick, I try to give you some reasons why I like the INFORMS Practice conference so much.<\/p>\n<p>I found the video really hard to do.\u00a0 I vacillated between spontaneous and rigid.\u00a0 When spontaneous, I had enough verbal tics that it was unwatchable.\u00a0 &#8220;I, um, really like the INFORMS Practice Conference, you know, um, because, um&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Arghh!\u00a0 The other extreme made me look as though madmen had captured my loved ones and were forcing me to to read their manifesto against my will.\u00a0 So I tried to split the difference in the final video.\u00a0 Perhaps now it looks like I am being forced to read the manifesto with a verbal tic.\u00a0 As my wife said &#8220;It was fine, but you are no actor&#8221;.\u00a0 Despite that, you <em>really<\/em> should think about attending the INFORMS Practice Conference:\u00a0 it is inspiring to see what our field does in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t wait for the email, you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/postcard.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, the members of INFORMS will receive an email over the next two days.\u00a0 The email outlines some reasons why you should attend the upcoming INFORMS Practice Meeting (note that you need to register by April 1 in order to get a discount on the registration fee).\u00a0 Part of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/24\/im-ready-for-my-close-up-mr-demille-the-operations-research-version\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille, the Operations Research Version&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-informs","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}