Progress

[da]

I'm in Chicago. First task tomorrow: replace my camera's CF card.

I bought my digital camera in 2001. One of its features was its massive storage capacity: a 340 MB hard-disk, in CF form-factor. (Man, that was a lot of storage then. And so tiny!) But progress marches on. Now my camera is old, slow, and I was wondering when I could afford to replace it.

Yesterday, I tried a regular CF card in it. Weow, it's like a whole new camera, so much faster.

Staples has a sale on CF cards. $30 gets you 1GB. That seems like progress to me.

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emaki and I are in a hotel just next to McCormick Place. It's overlooking some odd looking statuary.

Blade Runner?





Also, the
bedside table: (sorry for the crap picture; it's from my laptop webcam):



has both a Gideon Bible and The Teaching of Buddha. [ed: fixed titles]

Tomorrow: architecture tours.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

No "u" in Gideon.

Glad you're there safely! See you soon!

[beable]

So has anyone actually coem up with a design for the "I survived YAPC 2006" shirts?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

No idea. There are supposedly shirts, but I'm not onsite yet to see if they've been printed. Also, we haven't survived yet, so it would be premature to make that assumption, wouldn't you think?

...are you coming to YAPC?

Hey, and I have half an inkling that I met at last year's in TO. Is this true or is my brain making things up again?

[beable]

I am not coming to YAPC, but I was indeed at YAPC last year in Toronto, and we may well have met, either at YAPC or if metalana had a party (I have some memory of her having one). I stayed at metalana's rather than the conference site as that was part of my pitch to my employer for letting me go to YAPC when I also wanted to go to another conference later in the year.

I am still subscribed to the YAPC mailing list, and there was some discussion on the safe and unsafe neighbourhoods near the conference site in Chicago, along with the ensuing suggesting that the conference unofficial shirts should be "I survived YAPC 2006".

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Aha. I think i met you at the conference, then.

The official teeshirt has the theme of the Chicago 18whatever Fire. W/ a byline "an open source conlagration".

The city is seeming fine, so far. So far.