Google and the Art of Social Engineering
Had a hard time getting up again. I had planned to skip the morning sessions because the session that I had been interested in was canceled. But I was trying to make a lunch session.
After studying the maps last night, it looked like that I could walk half a block and then take a bus down the street that the conference center was on. I checked Google Maps, which told me that the distance from my hotel to the center was slightly under a mile, and I should walk there. I don't like Google telling me what to do, but I did walk. And it was HUMID! In MARCH! Maybe I should rethink possibly living in Austin sometime. I was chatting with a guy in an elevator, and he was complaining about how hot it was, so it's not just me.
The lunch session was not serving lunch, so forget that. I went to Pizza Hut across the street.
Everyone in Austin seems to be nice and the librarians at the conference are nice. It's like floating in a sea of nice.
My afternoon sessions were good and mostly useful. Unfortunately, the session that I said that I'd write about for a journal was one of the least useful. Oh well.
Hung out at the conference center before we went to dinner.
I had been wishing that I hadn't agreed to go to dinner, but I'm glad that I went. I liked the vendor reps. And they paid for dinner, and the place wasn't cheap. It was kind of a foodie place with unusual combinations of food, but the food was good.
Now I'm back at the hotel room trying to quickly wind down. I need to get up early because there's a 9:00 session that I want to go to.
After studying the maps last night, it looked like that I could walk half a block and then take a bus down the street that the conference center was on. I checked Google Maps, which told me that the distance from my hotel to the center was slightly under a mile, and I should walk there. I don't like Google telling me what to do, but I did walk. And it was HUMID! In MARCH! Maybe I should rethink possibly living in Austin sometime. I was chatting with a guy in an elevator, and he was complaining about how hot it was, so it's not just me.
The lunch session was not serving lunch, so forget that. I went to Pizza Hut across the street.
Everyone in Austin seems to be nice and the librarians at the conference are nice. It's like floating in a sea of nice.
My afternoon sessions were good and mostly useful. Unfortunately, the session that I said that I'd write about for a journal was one of the least useful. Oh well.
Hung out at the conference center before we went to dinner.
I had been wishing that I hadn't agreed to go to dinner, but I'm glad that I went. I liked the vendor reps. And they paid for dinner, and the place wasn't cheap. It was kind of a foodie place with unusual combinations of food, but the food was good.
Now I'm back at the hotel room trying to quickly wind down. I need to get up early because there's a 9:00 session that I want to go to.