I went to the Kansas City .NET User Group meeting last night. The presenter was Richard Hale on Design Patterns. The content itself was good, but the presentation was not. His tangents were so over the top that any point he was trying to make was lost. He was flat out rude to some member of the audience and some of his references were very inappropriate and unprofessional for such a meeting. To make matters worse, I finally convinced my boss to go to one of these meetings with me. This was his first one and it left a very bad taste in his mouth. I would not recommend recruiting this guy for any future meetings.