I attended the Midwinter library conference, and it was a bit of an odyssey. I was supposed to leave on Friday, early, but there was a snowstorm, and everything going out of Chicago got cancelled. The best anyone could do for me was a 9:00 AM flight out of O’Hare on Saturday morning, and that … [Read more…]
First, I sat in gum on the L to the apartment – I took the bus to Chicago the day before the conference, to spend the night, do a little work, and then catch a noon-ish flight to Denver from Midway. I discovered the gum at the start of my last phone call student advising … [Read more…]
Seems like I’ve been here before … I think in 2007 for the same library technology conference I’m at now, and in 2009 for the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. The Blue Bear is still here, but the sculptor who made it died last month. I started writing this on Friday, in a session where … [Read more…]
So I’ve been feeling guilty for not writing and not photographing food and feeling like I must’ve never been this bad before, but I was looking at last fall, and I didn’t even take a picture of the pies I made for Pie Palooza, which (it says on the website) were Gluten-free Corn & Pepper … [Read more…]
Came home with a nifty piece of conference schwag that I don’t think I’d ever picked up at conference before: a nasty summer cold complete with a chesty cough, and losing my voice. Not my idea of fun. But I did manage to enjoy most of the conference. Friday night I went to a fancy … [Read more…]
Or, between two breakfasts. Here’s the first one: On Tuesday morning I got up at Omigod (4:45am) and drove to the train with Mark. We were in Chicago at quarter to 9:00 and my flight wasn’t until 12:10, so I went looking for breakfast and ended up at Corner Bakery. After breakfast, I took the … [Read more…]
But too tired to write about it now – more tomorrow. Here’s a view of the Capitol Building, from the steps of the Library of Congress. I love the purple color of those lamps.
To wintry mix and a head cold, or well, it was a head cold on Wednesday when I started writing this, but now it’s Friday, and it’s in my chest. Wintry mix falling on HC White building courtyard from Debra Shapiro on Vimeo. Since I’m so belated in writing, here’re a few snapshots of the … [Read more…]
So here I am at another library conference, where I’m sitting in meetings with people talking about metadata before 9:00AM in the morning. Fortunately, I think the fashion for showing screens of code with pointy brackets is fading; instead they’re showing slides with lists of all kinds of technology and environments used to create the … [Read more…]
And definitely too busy to write. I never reported on my Charlottesville expedition – a few highlights: The keynotes were in a music venue/theater – so you walked into a long hallway, and the breakfast was spread out on what would normally be the bar or concessions stand, in a darkish lobby. There were really … [Read more…]