Benford Does Stuff

I found this posting that I thought was eaten by the internet whilst I was in San Fransisco. Here it is in its original glory:

Train ride from Portland to Emryville was fairly smooth, though at 17 hours it was still a bit tiring. However, unlike an airplane, there were in-transit meals that were actually pretty good, and there was an observation car where you could hang out if you didn’t want to sit down all of the time. The breakfast special was a wierd omelette pizza, which suprisingly did not give me any stomach trouble.

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I’ve been working with Mário Pertile of the organization Scene of Cinema. He represents a group of hobbyists that not only play Second Life, but host Film festivals within their virtual theater. The theme of the festival centered around technology and video games, and how they have impacted our culture and childhood memories. (Pictures after the break)

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So I was scheduled to head back home, but I heard about how there was a family reunion just two days after the conference. I was able to get things cleared with work, so I was able to stay the extra weekday and attend the family reuion.

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Day 2 of HigherEdWebDev convention and things went pretty well. I attended two particularly good panels on Agile development and Test driven development.

For the uninitiated, Agile development is more flexible than traditional software design patterns. The idea is that you have something fully functional to show your customer every two weeks (or failing that, some kind of short time period). The key thing is that

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Well, springfield is a big town. There’s a lot to do on a Sunday Afternoon, such as watch football. I played mini golf at one point which was quite nostalgic. Especially the part with the dinosaur (A brontosaurus) blocking my path about halfway through the course.

I’m off to the the higher ed web development conference in Springfield, Missouri. Plane rides went just fine and nothing particularly outstanding has happened so far.

During the ride I was powerlevling my party in FF3 because the game designers saw it fit that by the time you got to the final dungeon, you would be just fine for facing the local monsters, but would have to go to a point at which you could not save before fighting the worst boss in the world and you would also be about 10 levels below what could be considered even remotely survivable by ordinary human beings.

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