and you didn't even get to the oroginal Pizzaria Uno's it looks like -- Where was the convention center? where were you staying? Old Chicago girl wants to know seems to me that kind of thing is always a mess - Adobe doesn't own the chaos :)
Welcome back ann Mark Roberts wrote: >OK, I got myself signed in at the conference yesterday. Bob Sullivan >drove me down to the convention center where we found the west-side >entrance blocked off. Around the east side we found lots of people and >some prominent Adobe banners down at one end. Of course, the real >entrance was at the other end. Doh! Walked back and got in but couldn't >find registration. One of the officials gave me directions: Up two >escalators, over to the other side of the building, down two escalators >and turn left. Which put me right at the west side of the conference >center which we couldn't drive to directly because it had been blocked >off. > >Scattered all over the place were "Adobe PDF Kiosks". Couldn't even >guess what a "PDF Kiosk" might be as I hustled back (up two escalators, >across the building and down two escalators) to the festivities. >(Meaning "food and booze"). BTW: When I registered for the conference, >the web forms I filled in had a prominent section asking about special >dietary needs: Vegan, vegetarian and a couple of others. About a week >before the conference I received an email update about my "vegetarian" >selection. It basically said "We're serving everything buffet style so >just don't eat stuff with meat in it". How helpful. > >I checked on the shuttle service they provide to downtown and >discovered the good news is that it stops at the Hilton just a block >down from the hotel where I'm staying. Cool. But they only run the >shuttles for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, so it's >an all-day thing or nothing if you're traveling by shuttle. Other good >news about my hotel, though: It's right next door to Columbia College, >which houses the Museum of contemporary Photography. Of course it opens >after the shuttle buses leave in the morning and closes before they >come back, so I may not be able to go in, but I can at least peer in >the windows as I go by. > >Saw some preliminary presentations during the opening festivities last >night. The main theme seems to be "Don't ever use 100k of bandwidth >when you can convey the same information with 10Meg". > >I discovered what a PDF Kiosk is! It's a computer with and Internet >connection. i can walk up and log in with my conference ID and password >and surf the net free for as long as my legs hold up - they're set at a >height you can only use while standing and there a conspicuous absence >of chairs of the correct height (or indeed any height). Still don't >know why they're called "PDF" kiosks. > >Summary of event so far: Typical Adobe user interface. > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
