Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

I didn’t do much conference related stuff today. I was scheduled to sit at the newcomer’s booth from 9-10am. The booth didn’t get set up until 10am. So I sat and chatted with a colleague for an hour. I then helped hang the newcomer’s table sign with paperclips. Of course, I forgot to take a picture of the slightly crooked sign. I’ll do so tomorrow; however, I’m betting someone didn’t like it’s slanted nature and will have fixed it. We’ll see…

I think went to the NYC public library. However, I snuck in the back door; I guess I was afraid of the lions out front.

I sat and worked in the “reading” room for a couple of hours—finished grading and cleaning up email, etc. After working for a while I had to go to the restroom. Stacey took this video of me walking through the hallway…

I think went to this cool little restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen with Stacey. They had amazing milkshakes. I even saw the sticker for them being “yelped” about in the window. However, what really amazed me was that the restaurant couldn’t be more than 15 feet across.

After that, the back muscle that I pulled on the plane yesterday decided it was cranky. But I really did love running around on the subway…cool stuff. I think I’ve figured it out pretty well; my only problem is that I don’t quite understand how to look for/read the rush hour only trains. Last night I had to ask some nice locals because the train I wanted…wasn’t stopping. Oops!