The Dress Code
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We are VERY SERIOUS about our dress code, so please be sure to follow
it carefully:

  Do not violate any Texas laws against public indecency.

If you do and are apprehended, we can't be of much help.  You'll end
up spending valuable time in the hoosegow, and you should note our
warnings in the information file on the daily schedule (namely, if you
miss part of the workshop, you'll find it very difficult to catch up
later).  Not to mention, it'd be a real downer to lose an attendee to
the long arm of the law in the midst of the workshop.

Oh yes, the dress code.  I think not.

What you DO need to know:

It's hot and humid in Houston at that time of year, and doesn't cool
down appreciably in the evenings.  This is what you get for building a
city atop a swamp beside a sweltering bay.  (Vitruvius, two thousand
years ago, warned against this, but the founders of Houston don't seem
like the sort of chaps who kept up-to-date on the writings of
antiquity.)  BUT, the classrooms at Rice tend to be kept pretty well
air-conditioned (depending on your sensitivity -- many call it
"freezing").  So some past attendees have felt, paradoxically, that
the one thing they wished they had brought was ... a sweater.

Hey, I'm jes' tellin' it like it is.

Please feel free to wear shorts, t-shirts, tank tops, biking apparel,
or whatever else makes you comfortable.

All restaurants, stores, and domed and retracting-roofed stadia are
air-conditioned.  All we need is an aircraft-penetrable,
air-conditioned, plexiglass bubble over the entire city, and people
would move here in droves.