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I call this: “Triptych on ALA Midwinter”
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123 Lantern Way
January 9th, 2003 |
Chicago O’Hare Airport |
Coronado Beach, California
January 13th, 2003 |
Still early, but I’ve already been over to the Job Placement Center. Score was 78342695 public libraries from California, useful job information, 0. But it was good to see…people keep telling me that the center at Annual is much better and more useful, but it’s in June, in Orlando, and I’m just not sure I’m going to be up for it. But we’ll see.
Blogging this time from the 2nd floor of the Convention Center, at the Canon Internet Cafe. Free access for Con goers, but the line is 20 minutes long. So I’m gonna head out, and let someone else have the seat.
Miss everyone, and I’ll be back soon! (Love ya, Bets!)
Cooler, but still over 50 degrees F. Took time today to go to the San Diego Zoo; fabulous photos to follow upon return to safe haven. Blogging from Internet Terminal in Hostel, very interesting interface and technology, but it works.
Tomorrow = ALA Placement Services to attempt to discover new and wonderful jobs that haven’t come to my attention yet, another session or two to attempt to network like mad, and the Exhibition Hall to attempt to get as much free shit as possible. Details when available.
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Bloggin’ from San Diego
Hey gang! Just a quick note from sunny SoCal for you. Just finishing up the day here…lots of good stuff. Mostly, the weather. For those of you caught in the chill, it’s 70 and sunny here. Just beautiful.
Overall, lots of good sessions at the conference. Got my fingers into the “Info Commons” discussion today, which was good. Other than that, just enjoying the fine company.
Oh, and doing a LOT of making fun of librarians. Jeez, you’ve never seen so many cardigans in your LIFE!
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On the way to sunny SoCal
Ok guys, I’ll be off tomorrow morning for San Diego for the ALA Midwinter meeting. Expect updates from the convention floor, and pictures when I return. I plan on taking lots of photos (would photoblog if there was going to be 802.11 access on the con floor), and I’ll throw them up when I return.
See you all next week!
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Check the iPod Mini
Check out the cute little thing. The problem? Still too expensive…4 gigs, $249? Nah…they’re pretty, but I’ll save up for the 40gig.
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Favorite Picture
Here’s Betsy’s favorite picture from our various Christmas visits. This is a monkey bobble-head that she got me. It’s a running gag with us…every Christmas, she asks me what I want, and I always answer “Peace on earth, good will towards men, and a monkey.” So nearly every year, she gets me a monkey.
Here’s the kicker: my father informs us that I’m probably actually remembering my great-grandfather from when I was very young. He actually HAD monkeys…two of them, Spider Monkeys. He had a cage for them, and would get them out one at a time to let them crawl around on him, and swing around the house…according to my dad, he was the only one that could handle them. His hands were so callused that when they bit him he didn’t even feel it. I don’t consciously remember this, but I suppose it may be buried somewhere and I’ve just incorporated it into my subconscious. That, or monkeys are just cool.
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Here’s a depressing Media story
So…a couple of really brilliant guys who do a little online comic called Penny Arcade decided before Christmas that they were going to show the world that gamers weren’t a bunch of backwards introspective adolescents hiding in their parents basements, but instead were giving, fully-grown members of society who wanted to spread the joy of games.
To this end, they started Child’s Play, a site through which donations could be made for children in the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Here’s where the Media royally screwed up. After they showed up with more toys than you could believe (actual figures in a minute) and local Seattle media picked up the story, somehow it was reported that the donations were from a “local catholic school” and that the toys were valued at “nearly a thousand dollars.”
Here’s the scoop…this couple of cartoonists and gamers raised over $200,000 worth of toys. Two. Hundred. Thousand. Dollars. They had $16,000 worth of Game Boy Advance SP’s by themselves, not counting the rest of the toys.
Really impressive, and they aren’t making nearly as big a deal out of it as they should.
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Coolest SWF _ever_
From BoingBoing, the Gollum Rap.