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ACS Boston 2007: Free Alcohol and Free Stuff

Free Alcohol
Saturday there was free food and alcohol at the Marriott for the Younger Chemist Committee (YCC). It was sponsored by the ACS web team. Fortunately, there weren’t many people there so I got more than my share of egg rolls and free booze. That night at the poster session, there was also free alcohol and free turkey which is an interesting combination of food and drink when its already late at night and you’ve been looking at talks all day.

Monday I will be trying to score some more free food and drink at the CHED poster session 2:30-4, I don’t know whether there will be anything, but I’ll shortly find out. The Nuclear division has their social hour at 7-9pm tonight, and there should be plenty of free alcohol there. Since, scimix is from 8-10, I’ll be there from 9 on.

Free Stuff
Monday is the first day the exposition opens up to us regular folk. The best booths by far have been the following.

Elsevier: Free personal fan that lights up and says, “I’m hot”. Which is also true… thermally at least.

Corning: Free M&Ms in their new 200mL plastic vessel

Strem: Which has a nice periodic table for your desk. The best thing about it, it’s actually up to date with the newest transactinides (i.e. Roentgenium).

ACS pubs: Free issue of ACS Nano. I dropped by and was hoping to catch an editor there, but the very cute girl from marketing that was managing the desk said they all went home for the day. Mind you, I was there at 10:30AM and the exposition only opened at 9:00AM. However, I did see Ivan there, but he looked overly excited about Hoffman’s poetry reading, which in my book is a red flag and signaled it was time to move on.

Nature: Free issue of Nature and Nature Nanotechnology: I went to that booth to try to meet some of their editors. But, no one there knew where they were or what time they were going to show up.

Mitch