I’m in San Diego for the ALA conference, and I was struck by how space-age their convention center is – you’d think it was built in the 1960s, but it seems to be the same age as John – construction began March 1987. I used the movie camera in my iPhone to try to capture [...]
So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata [...]
Somehow, the last time I posted was a whole week ago, and I’m not sure why that is. In between then and now, we went to the premier concert of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and tried out a new-to-Madison restaurant (#21 of a Chicago area chain). Nothing that we ate there – a pasta bolognase, [...]
So the last conference food event was the OCLC President’s luncheon, always on the Monday of ALA – they herd several hundred people into a dining room in one of the hotels. The speech is usually a bit of a repeat of some of the things we hear at the update breakfast on Sunday, but [...]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a [...]
Last night we had dinner at the great tapas place, Jaleo – but I didn’t take a single picture. We had a largish group, 5 of us, so we got to sample ten tapas – we each ordered two: potatoes cooked in tomato sauce, with super garlicy aoli shrimp in garlic gazpacho x2 – so [...]
Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as. Like the bread [...]
I had a hot dog & fries for lunch, but I didn’t take a picture, at a place called the Billy Goat Grill & Tavern (named after the one in Chicago) – they didn’t have Chicago dogs with all the trimmings – the dog I got was plain, but nicely grilled – but they had [...]
