After my alone time on Saturday, which included the events of my previous post and then some LotRO, we had the opening dinner/get-together at the UNB Student Union. For entertainment at the gathering, there was a local group of young Irish dancers who performed for us. This was the one point where I broke a rule of ResNet: always have your camera. As a result, I have no pictures of the event. Following the get-together, there was yet another trip downtown, this time with a larger group of ResNetters. I came back to campus early with Chris, and it appears I missed the run in some of the ResNetters had with a bacholrette party. There’s always some crazy story that comes from ResNet though.
With the coming of Sunday, it meant that I would actually have to go to a session or two, which is fine, since that’s why I’m here. Prior to the sessions was the keynote, given by Stephen Downes, which was good at the beginning, but got a bit “meh” towards the end, as I’ve heard about Web 2.0 enough, and I don’t think we needed some of the explanations he was giving. The interesting thing about his presentation was that he had a a form on his site where you could post a comment, and another page that would then refresh to the next comment every 10 seconds. I’ll proudly say that I was the first to type in the URL and get the first comment in. There were a number of amusing items posted, including someone typing out a Rickroll.
Today was the presentation that Jim and I had worked on called “Pros and Cons of Computer Requirements (or lack thereof)”, which was really more of a panel discussion that involved the audience, as we didn’t quite have enough content for a full presentation, which is fine. We said our piece in about 20 minutes, and then had a discussion for the next 30 minutes or so. Needless to say, I was glad to have it done.
This afternoon, Jim, Chris, and I went walking on some trails downtown, including a walking bridge that used to be a railroad. I took some pictures of the trip, and I swear I’ll put them up on flickr sometime, just not now. After walking the 6-point-something-almost-7 miles, I’m glad to have my shoes off an have had a shower. Now to lay down and either play something on the DS Lite or take a nap for a bit until it’s time to decide on something for dinner, which will once again be something local downtown, as we’re on our own for food tonight.
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