As promised, here are a few pictures I took yesterday:

Professor Lessig presenting in Ingle Auditorium.
This was taken during an animated Q&A session.

Ralph Nader in Web Auditorium.
Note how he towers over the interpreter:

Like I said, a very tall man.
Yes, I realize he’s slightly upstage.
Still, there’s a pretty big height difference –
especially considering that he’s sorta slouching.




March 25th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I really wanted to see Lessig, but I was too tired from the TAGA conference and red-eyeing it back to Rochester from Vancouver. What did you think of his presentation?
March 25th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
doh! I should have read the post below this one…
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Matthew…
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