Greetings from San Francisco
Jun. 10th, 2008 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiWhere it costs a motherfucking $5.70 to go ten stops on the subway. What the fuck?
Anyway, in about an hour, I'll be out the door to head to the keynote of MoodleMoot '08. I attended the pre-conference hackfest yesterday, which was essentially an eight-hour edutech version of one of those Readercon "let's define sixteen subgenres" panels, only with more navel gazing and fewer results. That said, there was enough there to make it worth the time, in terms of both networking and knowledge gained.
Of course, most of the room was surfing the crappy Best Western wireless to find the news from the other tech show in town (my take: Yeah, it's all wonderful, but until the iPhone allows the option to work as a bluetooth modem for your laptop, it's lagging behind the other 3G phones).
Last night, a bunch of us headed into Chinatown, where we dealt with the aforementioned obscene public transit prices and grabbed some yummy food.
Tonight, there's a conference dinner. My expectations for food quality there are not as high.
Flight out here was fine -- it was Jetblue, which meant that even though it was six hours, I could eat munchies and watch some baseball. I also read most of Catherine Asaro's Sunrise Alley on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong's Kindle. The book is quite fun (a technothriller, essentially, but a well-done one), and the Kindle is a godsend for traveling.
The hotel is pretty much exactly the sort of hotel you'd expect Richard Shindell to write a song about. That said, the bed's comfy enough, and there's free and frequently working wireless.
Looks like any free time I have will be confined to Thursday during the day. Feh. I might just pay the "so high it should come with oral sex" BART fares and hit MOMA. Of course the Frida exhibit would open right after I leave. Feh.
Missshadesong, Elayna, and the cats like crazy.
Needless to say, not reading much LJ; if you need something, drop me an email.
Anyway, in about an hour, I'll be out the door to head to the keynote of MoodleMoot '08. I attended the pre-conference hackfest yesterday, which was essentially an eight-hour edutech version of one of those Readercon "let's define sixteen subgenres" panels, only with more navel gazing and fewer results. That said, there was enough there to make it worth the time, in terms of both networking and knowledge gained.
Of course, most of the room was surfing the crappy Best Western wireless to find the news from the other tech show in town (my take: Yeah, it's all wonderful, but until the iPhone allows the option to work as a bluetooth modem for your laptop, it's lagging behind the other 3G phones).
Last night, a bunch of us headed into Chinatown, where we dealt with the aforementioned obscene public transit prices and grabbed some yummy food.
Tonight, there's a conference dinner. My expectations for food quality there are not as high.
Flight out here was fine -- it was Jetblue, which meant that even though it was six hours, I could eat munchies and watch some baseball. I also read most of Catherine Asaro's Sunrise Alley on
shadesong's Kindle. The book is quite fun (a technothriller, essentially, but a well-done one), and the Kindle is a godsend for traveling.The hotel is pretty much exactly the sort of hotel you'd expect Richard Shindell to write a song about. That said, the bed's comfy enough, and there's free and frequently working wireless.
Looks like any free time I have will be confined to Thursday during the day. Feh. I might just pay the "so high it should come with oral sex" BART fares and hit MOMA. Of course the Frida exhibit would open right after I leave. Feh.
Miss
shadesong, Elayna, and the cats like crazy. Needless to say, not reading much LJ; if you need something, drop me an email.
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Date: 2008-06-10 07:30 pm (UTC)And thanks for the tips!
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Date: 2008-06-10 08:25 pm (UTC)If you need to go the City again any time soon, and price is a worry, there's a Holiday Inn over at 8th and Market which is relatively non-expensive and like all Holiday Inns everywhere, remarkably consistent. It'll get you relatively close to the heart of downtown without breaking the bank. That's where we put up John's mum when she came for her visit.