So, I found a hotel outside of “Bumland” for the conference in Savannah, thanks to the Internet. I got on Google Maps and made a note of every hotel within a 10-block radius of the conference. I looked up each hotel’s rates, and the Springhill Suites started to look like a good value. I then got on Google StreetView and took a virtual walk all around the Springhill Suites. I “walked” to the conference center; I “walked” to the venues where the after-hours parties will be. “This neighborhood looks totally safe,” I thought, and having lived in Memphis for 20+ years I’m pretty sure I’m a good judge of what’s a safe neighborhood and what’s not. I booked the room.<\/p>\n
Then I got on Facebook and Flickr and found photos of last year’s conference. I was pleased to see that there was not even one pic of anyone wearing a tie. Makes me think the attire I plan on wearing to the conference (T-shirt, shorts, sandals) will be entirely appropriate. Actually, I didn’t see many people in shorts, but there may have been a cold snap in Savannah that weekend last year.\u00a0 I also saw only a few people with laptops, so maybe I won’t bother carrying the MacBook or netbook with me.<\/p>\n
Makes me wonder how we lived without the Internet. I’d totally be planning for this conference in the dark without it. Of course, it’s a conference about<\/em> the Internet so I guess it wouldn’t be happening otherwise.<\/p>\n All right… I’ll try to do a “news update” post at lunch but I can’t promise it… I have to go buy something called “bronzer” which is makeup that will turn my skin a ghastly shade of orange so I’ll look like Bruce Pearl for Halloween. Time to get on Facebook and catch up (I seem to have a lot of new friend requests this morning for some reason) then head to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I found a hotel outside of “Bumland” for the conference in Savannah, thanks to the Internet. I got on Google Maps and made a note of every hotel within a 10-block radius of the conference. I looked up each hotel’s rates, and the Springhill Suites started to look like a good value. I then … Continue reading “Seriously, how did we LIVE without the Internet?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}