~Saturday~  I had a fun day today, attending the 2nd annual SpeedCon conference, SpeedCon 2012, put on by NC State's student chapter of SIGDOC (Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication ( Read more... )

~Friday~  The second, and final, day of the conference offered to sessions, again with three presentations each, followed by a "Wrap-up and Feedback" session to close out the conference ( Read more... )

~Thursday~  Today was the first day of the conference, and I attended four sessions, each with three presentations scheduled.

The first presenter in the first session didn't show up, so all-in-all, I attended 11 presentations today.

Here's what the day looked like, with an electronic copy of the program available here:

Continental Breakfast & ( Read more... )

~Wednesday~  I got up at about 9:00 today, and I worked on my blog entries for Sunday and Monday. It took longer than I wanted it to due to my yet limited knowledge on how to manipulate photos on my Mac.

I didn't dare touch these bottles of gold for the hotel:


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~Saturday~  I had a great day today attending the SpeedCon Communications Unconference at NC State, hosted jointly by the Carolina chapter of STC and the student chapter of SIGDOC ( Read more... )

~Wednesday~  Facilitated by Jen Riehle and John Martin at Mitch's Tavern from 7:00 - 9:00 PM.

Faculty sponsor: Sarah Egan-Warren

Welcome

• Thank you for being here.
• Intent: To discuss “real-life” technical communication issues.

Introductions

• Your name
  
  John
• Your status in the Tech Comm program
  
  I started the program in January of 2004 and graduated ( Read more... )

~Tuesday~  I parked at the Avent Ferry Park & Ride in anticipation of heading downtown after work for the End-of-the-Semester SIGDOC gathering at Flying Saucer.

There was only a handful of folks on the bus, and several of the kids on it were studying en route. It is exam week after all.In an unusual occurrence on the university bus, there were ( Read more... )

~Thursday~  I was running very late this morning, and I parked on Gorman near Avent Ferry to catch the Wolfline #9 Greek Village bus, which came at around 8:45. An Asian girl was at the stop and she had on black, knitted gloves that had white rabbit faces raised on the back side of the hands ( Read more... )

~Tuesday~  Wash. Rinse. Repeat. I was running late yet again this morning. I really need to start setting my alarm ten minutes earlier in the morning.

When I got to the Food Lion Park & Ride, there were two Wolfline buses waiting, the #1 Avent Ferry and the #9 Greek Village. I got on the #1 since it was in front and it left as soon as I got on ( Read more... )

~Thursday~  I picked up the #9 Greek Village Wolfline bus this morning, and was pleased to see Jackie on the bus and took a seat next to her. Jackie was the student leader on our 2010 Gulf Coast Alternative Spring Break Trip last year to Thibodaux, LA, where we did post-Katrina Habitat for Humanity Work. We had a nice chat all the way in ( Read more... )