Day 3 in review (part 2)
Tags :Conferences
Well I appreciate Paul Mooney read my comments
on his session. We sat (ok stood) for a few last night to talk while
in the Dolphin and I gave my impressions. He did great for his first
year and he has a repeat in the morning. Hope you are there now reading
this live or not reading it yet and seeing him. There is a picture
here hinting at what I talk about below and the rest are on the Flickr
or my Yahoo photo site as linked before.
I did my podcast in the afternoon at LotusUserGroup.org
and made sure I did not hear or see the questions before hand. I
wanted to wing it for the interview and surprisingly, I was asked some
questions no one had asked or at least in a long time. Leave it to
Libby Ingrassia for that. So go take a listen. Scroll down
the left some for the podcasts.
I managed to miss Wes Morgan's Network
Infrastructure Design session, which is one of my personal favorites. I
have seen it numerous times, yet he encompasses a 'feature' I try to put
into my sessions. No matter how much you know on the topic, the speaker
can make it entertaining and teach you at least one thing new that makes
it always worthwhile.
Let's get straight on to SeaWorld. I
had my hesitations about this one when I saw it announced. It is
at the bottom of my list, right above Wide World of Sports. I am
not usually this candid, maybe I am tired this morning as I type this (yes
it is back dated to keep me by day in postings). But there was not
enough time to do everything, and there really was not much to do.
Lots of walking, there seemed to be places to eat but everyone so
far I talked to ate at the pizza shop. Shamu was cool but such a
short show was surprising. One rollercoaster really sucks. I
know I love rollercoasters, so there is some bias. I had hoped for
a good, known, band. Yet I know they are expensive. Get a few
thousand more people back to the conference and we might get lucky again.
I will say all the positives from here on though.
- Shamu show was good for the time on. Very entertaining and amazing as each time. Awesome how much they can get them to do, learn and cooperate.
- The sharks area was great. Long line to get in. I realized that they had turned off the moving sidewalk that is normally on. So instead of getting whisked through, you could take your time. Made it more enjoyable but longer to get in.
- I have a new fish that reached amazing on the cool meter. The Leafy Sea Dragon. I thought they had a bunch of loose plants or weeds in the tank, it was the actual cousin of a sea horse (according to webpages I peeked at). Just amazing how it blended in.
- The pizza was fine (there, I stretched it)
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On Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 by Chris Miller
