Death warmed over

Exhausted after conference at the bleating New York Athletic Club, a place that gives wood panelling a bad name. Combined with the thing in New Haven last weekend, I've probably spoken to 60 people I've never seen before in my life in the last 5 days, engaged in a wide variety of businesses, such as:

• Outsourcing refunds of student grants for universities via checking accounts at new bank: currently has 90,000 account holders. Principals aged 24-26.
  
• Marketing consultant to beverage makers
• Wacky concocter of absurdist business puzzles / Best-selling author (Barry Nalebuff)
• A guy who's considering buying all the cable companies in Ukraine
  
• Fund of funds that incubates Canadian hedge funds
  
• Wholesale grower of fine plants (for Lowe's)
  
• Two companies pitching recovery of class action claims to hedge funds
  
• Poverty eradication in 3rd world countries via free trade
• Outsourcing of investment research
• Guy proposing dialogue site between people in red states and blue states; using broadband, video conferencing, multimedia portraits, and James
  Fishkin's methods of deliberative polling. (no payment received for shameless plug)
• Executive search consultant, currently seeking Salesperson for French tech company with Ukrainian app devt team
• Plain-old hedge funds, including retail broker lunkheads who started one because customers asked them to.
  

So, as I said, I'm tired.