Well, it’s official gang: I’m going to the AAI convention in Burbank California! Thank you so much for both your words of support and your extremely generous donations–without which I would not have been able to go.
I have decided to blog about the trip from my Blackberry, so this is my test post to see if it ends up looking wonky. Included should be a pic of me and my son in which I am wearing my brand new, hand made “We Call Them Pirates” beanie, which was sent to me by PinkoKnitter! She’s a member of the Chariots of Iron Ravelry group at ravelry.com. The beanie is awesome and I’m going to wear it in California, even though it will probably give me heat stroke.
Right now I am at home, getting packed for my 30 hour train ride… I can’t wait until we get bullet trains. But, I am going to use my time on the train to send thank-you emails to all the people that donated for the trip and I might try to take some videos from my phone and post them online if I can figure out how to get that set up. Otherwise, I have some videos on my ipod about game theory from MIT’s Yale’s fantastic Open Courseware Open Yale Courses* website and I have a Nintendo DS. If you haven’t played Scribblenauts yet, you are totally missing out.
I am printing up some business cards to hand out at the show and I was trying to do it from a Minuteman, which is sort of like Kinkos only it’s a franchise. I get everything set up with the guy over the phone, finish the cards and format them the way he wants them, email him to him, and when I call the guy to confirm that we’re good to go, he tells me that he’s a Roman Catholic and he’s been to this site and since he didn’t like what I had to say about his Church, he wasn’t going to print my cards…
So, I caved and I’m doing them through a Kinkos. They have been surprisingly helpful.
Anyhow, I’ll post again tomorrow with more from my pre trip packing adventure.
–Joe
*I am a moron. It was the Yale website that I got the Intro to Game Theory courses from, not MIT’s. Sorry.
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Awesome beanie, Joe. Wear it in good health.
Pinko Knitter
Glad to hear you’re going. I’m looking forward to seeing what posts come of this. Also, puzzle quest is another crack-tacular game for the DS.
Nice beanie
Sad that the bloke refused to print your cards what a douche… ah well can’t be helped