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senorita dorkus Feb 20, 2007
I'm generally pleasantly amused at my dorky nerdishness, or my nerdy geekishness, or perhaps just my all around avuncular spazzitude. However, sometimes I'd just like to have normal-people concerns. I saved packing for this most recent trip to Kansas until pretty much the last minute. I had a talk to give and was bringing my own laptop. I have the old laptop and the new one. They have different video dongles for plugging them in to projectors. I have the dongle for the old laptop and needed to buy one for the new laptop. My day off last week was unfortunately also Blizzard Day and you can see on Flickr just what the dongle-buying place looked like. So, no dongle.

So, I decided I'd bring my old laptop. For various reasons I had been sleeping sort of poorly again. So, it came down to the day before I left and I had all the work I'd been doing on the new laptop. I like the new laptop. It has a bigger screen. The battery lasts a while. It has all my stuff on it. The old laptop has a version of my digital stuff that looks like my stuff, but is not my stuff. I've resorted to using it on occasion -- like when I left my power cord at Kate's in January -- and always wind up adding things, like friends to my address book, where they disappear as if I never had them once I revert to the new laptop. In any case, I was tired and forgetful, and didn't trust myself to transfer every file I needed for this trip so I said "Screw it, I'm only gone for 72 hours, I'll bring BOTH laptops instead of an extra pair of jeans!"

This turned out to be an okay idea, all things considered. It was, that is, except for one part of the trip: the airport part. I already have a shoulder bag and a clothing bag. I have to take off my belt and my jacket and my shoes. Then there's the little plastic bag of liquid/oil grooming crap. Now add to that not one but two laptops. That's me in my orange socks herding six grey plastic tubs into the x-ray machine and the x-ray guy saying "are BOTH of these yours?" I just smiled and said yes, dorkily.

The talk went really well, you can read it here: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0, and why it's no big deal, seriously.

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link to it 2/20/2007  
Comments:
What is screen scraping on your Web 1.0 examples? How am I going to be 2.0 if I can't even figure 1.0. AH! :)
21 February, 2007 12:09
 
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