OSCon, Day 1, Part the second

[mdlbear]

Afternoon sessions Wednesday were good. It's been next to impossible to find a time slot with fewer than two sessions I really want to go to; I'm going to end up spending a lot of time on the convention website catching up. Particularly notable were the session entitled "The Madness of AJAX" and the one after it on cross-site techniques. (There was one in the morning on essentially the same subject, but not nearly as well done.)

The afternoon ended spectacularly with a session on interactive browser graphics -- "No Flash Required". Techniques ranged from the obvious, like SVG, to the demented, like a library that uses masses of 1-pixel DIVs to get 3 frame/sec video.

Went out for inexpensive but tasty sushi with randwolf at a sushi bar with trains. By this time my left ankle was complaining slightly; I laced my boots tighter and told it to shut up and not be such a wimp, which it obligingly did.

Went to a convention-related party in my hotel and grabbed a free beer courtesy of Mindtouch; they have an open-source wiki based on PHP and .NET that they sell as a hosted service and an appliance.

Came back to the convention center around 9:15, guitar and songbook in hand (or at least on the rolly), in time for the Open Jam BOF. Found the Fink BOF in progress -- we set up in a corner around 9:35 and eventually drove them out. randwolf showed up later on, and cflute arrived somewhere a little before 10pm bearing a dreadnought and her suitcase full of woodwinds. We also had Larry Karnowski ( http://www.hickorywind.org ), the session organizer, with a fiddle, a guy named (damn! I'll probably remember later today Klaus) who played blues riffs on Plink, a bass trombonist whose name I have unfortunately forgotten, and a friend of Larry's who hung back in the middle of the room and listened. They tossed us out somewhere around 11pm.

I sang "Desolation -- Oh, No!" (added 4:25pm: also "High Barratry") before cflute arrived (Larry made the mistake of mentioning Dylan), we also sang the "House Carpenter" / "Demon Lover" set (I saw the trombonist counting on his fingers after it switched over to 5/4), "World Inside the Crystal", and "Cicero in the 21st Century".

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

What did they think of "World Inside the Crystal"?

heh. 5/4 is definitely a weirdo timing... "gotcha!" :)

[mdlbear]

Went over pretty well, I thought, though not a huge reaction. On the other hand, I'm often even less observant than usual when I'm performing, so it's entirely possible I missed something.

I got a better reaction on "High Barratry". Funny is usually better.

[chaoswolf]

flower_cat is envious of cflute because, quote "She gets to see you more than I do!" end quote.

[mdlbear]

only during this con.