EclipseCon attendees were treated on Tuesday to an entertaining presentation by Scott Adams, author of the “Dilbert” comic strip, featuring Adams showing some memorable entries in the strip and detailing his rise to prominence in his field.Although rejected as a child by what he called the “Famous Artists School for Young People,” Adams persisted in his craft during years of working in corporate America at the Pacific Bell telephone company and at a bank. His observations showed up in his strips, including a direct quote from a company executive’s memo, which got him in trouble during a time when his budding cartoonist career overlapped with his employment at Pacific Bell. “I didn’t think he’d notice it,” Adams said. He also said he has upset parties ranging from square dance callers to persons with the family name, “Dork.” These complaints sometimes have generated sarcastic apologies in follow-up strips.In one strip, he wrote about ant farms, only to hear from an attorney representing Uncle Milton Industries, which had trademarked the term, ant farm. Dilbert then responded with a strip that disparagingly compared lawyers to ants. Commenting on the notion of luck, Adams argued that those with luck actually may be those who spot the right opportunity. “People who expect luck get it,” Adams said. Software Development