conferences

No CONduit Appearance Today

If you don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, then this is news to you. (If you do follow me, then you’re likely sick of my updates by now.) The flight I was supposed to be on at 6:55 this morning got delayed enough that I would have missed my connection (which I found out I didn’t have an actual seat on anyway–thanks, United and Delta!) So I’m on the afternoon flight to DC again, slated to connect to a flight to Salt Lake that’ll get me there around 8 this evening, 24 hours late. Of course, that’s assuming this […]

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Flight Irritation (and a reading time change)

I was supposed to be getting on my flight to Salt Lake right now, already arrived in DC and on my way to CONduit. However, due to some unspecified equipment malfunction, my flight from Portland was canceled. You know, if United had just been upfront about things and said right off that the flight was delayed/canceled, I might not be that steamed. But instead, they decided to wait an hour after the flight was supposed to have left before they let us know there was a problem. Genius. And of course it was late enough by then that I couldn’t

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CONduit: Come See Me Talk about Writing!

On Thursday, I’m leaving Maine for a pilgrimage out to Utah. Salt Lake City, to be precise. I’ll be there through Monday, attending a science fiction convention: CONduit. It’s a con I used to go to when I lived in Utah, and I’m looking forward to going back. (For those of you who don’t know, a “con” is one of those conventions that celebrates geekdom to one extent or another. Sometimes comics, sometimes writing, sometimes movies, sometimes all of the above. This one is a regional “all of the above” flavor. There’ll be presentations on movies, writing, making costumes, and

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The Black Belt Librarian

Not much time today and tomorrow. I’m in the middle of a library conference today, and tomorrow I’ll be at a library meeting in Bangor all day. So you’ll have to get by without my scintillating wit for a day or two. But hey–you can see what I’m learning about today. Check out http://www.blackbeltlibrarians.com/ Anyway, I’m posting this from my iPad in the middle of the conference, and the speaker’s about to start, so I gotta jet.

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Some Observations from My Conference

I’ve been at this conference for seven hours now. Some of my thoughts are as follows: When hosting a COMPUTERS in Libraries conference, the hosting hotel really ought to make sure that its wireless network is robust enough to handle 1500 librarians all trying to get online at once. I keep getting bumped off the network, and that’s an easy way to make Bryce a very disgruntled boy. Some librarians seem to me to be a little too set on “bucking the stereotype” when it comes to librarians. I mean, I’m all for not having your hair in a bun and wearing

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