Steve Loughran (HP Labs) just finished up.

He strikes me as being a very intelligent human being. He's seems to be English, but it looks like his teeth were store-bought, which is kind of a neat thing. There's that stereotype about English people and their teeth, so it's nice to see someone taking a stand and making a statement against all the bigotry.

His demo involved quite a bit of CAD stuff that was, frankly, over my head. He had a modeling tool which he used to create a sphere. He then saved the sphere and pumped it out via a web service to a site (JSP-based) which reworked the sphere into a VRML representation. Even though it wasn't the point of the talk, I still thought it was really cool. I don't get to work with CAD tools, and I thought it was some pretty neat stuff that appealed to my curious inner-nerd.

He then went on to discuss problems of pushing binary data over long distances using web services.

But what's really staying with me is the image of his perfect teeth. I wish I had teeth like that. It's sad, too, because you can't really aspire to have better teeth in life. You just have what you have.

Oh, sure, you can get better ones installed, but...

Well, it's just not the same.