Paul's Journal

10/31/2006 18:16 #32803

Vendor Product Infomercial
Category: conference

So far the conference has been a sort of vendor product infomercial. I hope tomorrow with it's focus on search will be more interesting.

I know it's not just me being picky because I hear other people complaining and so far a couple people have even challenged the speakers on what they were saying.

In the future, I would rather attend a developers conference, like the PHP one right near by or the database DB world conference in Toronto last month.

At least california is cool, sushi is cheap and they gave me a free ipod for registering early.

enknot - 11/01/06 07:55
Paul! Don't forget to save every receipt. You get 50$/day refunded for food expenses. So save em, it's really easy just hand the envelope of papers to Kathy and she works her gentle magic.

paul - 10/31/06 19:18
All of those consumer items were from the asian dollar store. I thought the above seven were out of place, that's why I took the pic.

theecarey - 10/31/06 19:03
I love the random pictorial.

Are those pics from the cool looking japenese store that (e:twisted) posts about?

'Beyond Seven', huh? how much beyond seven are we talking about? haha..

bleh, that is both a nice and gross pic of the fish egg sushi. I just can't get beyond 'finding nemo' in between my teeth.

I hit up China town and brought back candy that you will like. I intend to share, unless I eat all by then ;)

I didnt know that you were/are attending a KM conference!!!!!I get invites to those every year. That is more my thing- strategic business, process improvement, etc. Make sure to bring me back some good info!

have fun :)

iriesara - 10/31/06 18:47
why are they selling jimmies along with the sushi & computer products? I don't get it....

10/31/2006 14:16 #32802

One dot of service
Category: conference

I am at The KM world intranets conference now. Skipped the google adaptive path guy web 2 speech for one on network metrics. I found it interesting but am amazed at how product centric it was.

Got a free ipod for signing up early. Ipod number three. The new washing machine hasn't eaten one yet.

So here I am at this big fancy corporate intranet conference and the graphic on the back of the program show an intranet on mac os 9 explorer. Low design budget? Things that make you go hm.

10/30/2006 19:27 #32801

The Hotel
Category: travel

So I got to (e:twisted)'s house safely. I thought I was supposed to be staying at the Marriot but when I called they nor the Hilton at the event have a reservation for me and they are booked. At least I know someone here. I can't imagine what it would have been like if I took a bus there and then they didn't have reservations. Maybe I was supposed to make the reservations. Either way, at least I somewhere to stay and a way to the event.

Wish me luck.

paul - 10/31/06 11:43
Worked out, They still had the reservation on file. I had somewhow mistaken the Marriot for the Crowne.

iriesara - 10/30/06 19:56
I'm so jealous! I can't wait to be with y'all!

10/30/2006 17:36 #32800

People With Large Carry ons
Category: travel

Check your fucking shit so the rest of us don't have to wait twenty minutes to get out.
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joshua - 10/31/06 09:03
The back of the plane is the best part of the plane. You can diddle your girlfriend or boyfriend without too many people noticing (particularly on redeyes) and you get to listen to the flight attendants tell horror stories about near-crashes.

I *do* live out a suitcase when I travel. You'd be surprised what you can pack into a regulation size carry-on.

robin - 10/31/06 00:06
hey now! some of us do live out of our carry ons for a month.
Last time I flew they lost the bag I checked and mailed it to me later.
Don't worry though, as a poor person I'm always in the back of the plane.

jenks - 10/30/06 22:35
Agreed. It's bullshit. The balls of some people with trying to call these i-can-live-out-of-this-for-a-month suitcases "carry ons".

joshua - 10/30/06 22:04
Actually it used to be quite a bit worse. As a habit now I get to the airport slightly earlier just to check baggage so that all I bring on is my laptop. People don't realize how easy it is to do - the problem of course is waiting to get it. Business people don't have time to wait once the plane lands.

Still though - the baggage thing is a MAJOR pet peeve of mine and I cannot stand it when the people at the front of the plane take their sweet time. I've actually been vocal with people on the plane over this shit. :(

10/30/2006 17:33 #32799

I landed
Category: travel

We landed. As long as we don't have a teneride experience, I am safe.

P.S. Star Trek is cooler than star was according to wired magazine and I love sky mall. PMT need locators.

ladycroft - 10/31/06 14:07
my friend Allister works for Wired mag!

enknot - 10/30/06 18:33
Erin Biba is a deluded fool! Even if she is right about Batman, Anikin is the jizam, and really how plausable are dilithum crystals realllllly!??