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CIL2005: Day 1

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=583285

That’s going on here tonight. Different conference entirely though 🙂

I’m sitting in the lobby of the Hilton now using the free wireless access. Security is getting really tight as I type, a clerk just shut all the shades on all the windows for some reason. I also feel out of place in my jeans, everyone else is dressed accordingly for the $2500 dinner… Not sure when Bush is set to arrive (or even at what entrance), but it’d be great to snap a picture. I may not have press credentials like Michael Stevens, but I’ll do what I can 🙂

I spent the afternoon wandering the Mall area, since I’m not signed up for any pre-conference workshops. I’ll put the pictures up soon. I debated not using the CIL2005 tag for them since they’re not specifically conference related, but I figure I’m here for the event so I might as well use it. I’ll edit the post when I have them uploaded to Flickr.

I’m gonna spend tonight finalizing my event choices, and try to meet up with Michael (and other such LIS bloggers) at some point.

Stay tuned.

Heh

Seen on a poster ad for SCALA’s (Student Chapter of the ALA) monthly movie night:

This month: The Matrix

Come join us for this classic tale of information professionals in the future.

Guess they’re running low on films with librarians in them 🙂

Final Words

This is probably my last non-CIL-related post for a while.

Nick posted this site today and I couldn’t resist. You enter words, and images from flickr make up the letters! Sort of hard to explain, here’s my results:



David, are you listening?

Talking to Matt recently got me thinking about friends from way back. In kindergarten (I hate spelling that word and probably botched it) I was good friends with a guy named David Stallman. Or perhaps David Stahlman, I can’t be sure.

By the end of the big K, we were the only two boys left in the class. All the others had moved away. We were in first grade together as well, but after that his Dad’s job got him moved to Saudi Arabia. This was about two years before Gulf War I, and I always wonder what happened to David and his family – if they stuck around or not.

So I got to thinking about how to find the guy. Google turned up nothing concrete. For all I know I have the last name completely wrong, he might go by Dave Stallman or Dave Stahlman or something entirely else now, who knows?

So I figured my best bet was putting out the word here.

Anyway, David, if you ever Google your own name and run across this entry, drop me a line!

Flight of the Phoenix

Product Image: Flight of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition) (2004)
Flight of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition) (2004)
My rating: 4 out of 5

I finally got around to watching the 2004 version of Flight of the Phoenix tonight. I watched the original version a couple months back, and the comparisons are interesting.

The new matches the old in just about all of the major plot points. The nomads are handled a little differently, but really only to add in a couple of action scenes that the original did just fine without.

My sole major criticism is really about the addition of a female cast member. Miranda Otto’s character seems to be present only to give a half-realized romantic interest for Dennis Quaid. The original FOTP was not a romance. Modern movies try to toss in a random romantic element far too often.

Good solid entertainment, with some capable human drama. I would have given the movie three stars. However, the random desert Chinese motorcycle gang seen in the trailer does not appear in the film. That editing choice alone deserves an extra star.