Lee and I went to a conference recently for the Eurecan European Venture Contest Awards that was organized by our favorite bank, Caja Navarra. Basically the event should have been entitled "Crisis, Que Crisis?" The setup at the convention center looked like a Bon Jovi contest, complete with lasers, insane lighting, and ridiculous sound equipment. Glad to know where our money's going.

At a few points we were asked to vote on a few survey issues and for the elevator pitch contest winners on our nifty handheld wireless voting devices (reminiscent of the fantastic Nickelodeon game show hosted by Marc Summers from 1991-1993 called What Would You Do).

The contest winner was some biotech company (figures), but the highlight was the canapes served afterwards. Lee and I made sure to eat at least one year in interest payments worth of seared tuna on a stick. We sampled one from every table to make sure that quality was consistent (it was).