Meetup, Campus
Aug. 8th, 2002 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterThe day before yesterday was when the Linux Meetup Event was scheduled. It had been scheduled to meet in the same place that my Livejournal Meetup had been—to wit, a parking lot—but the Meetup people had noticed and rescheduled it for a non-parking lot venue. As it happened, a venue that was actually familiar to the Linux folks, since the Library Center was where the normal Linux user-group meetings were held anyway.
A few of us got together, hung out, shot the breeze for a few hours, then I headed home. On the way, I stopped in at a new pizza place that was on the way back—called "Ultimate Pizza" or something, located on South Campbell where the Hasting's used to be. I was pleasantly surprised; the pizza buffet was reasonable ($5.99, plus just 25 cents extra for a drink) and delicious, there were both public eating areas and closed-off rooms where the loudspeakers didn't blare, and there were a lot of cool-looking video and ticket games and Go-Karts and bumper cars and things that work off of a debit-card-style system, sort of like SMSU's Zip Cards or Kinko's Copy Cards. You pay money to charge the card, then swipe the card into the games and things. Anyway, I was impressed enough that I submitted it as a potential meetup site for meetup.com.
Yesterday I went in to campus to pay the $20 to the Career Services office so they'd host my credentials letters. Got there about 2:10; the office was closed. The counselling office next door suggested they'd be open after 3:00, so I went over to the computer building on the west side of campus to noodle around in the lab for about an hour.
On the way back, I stopped in at the brand spanking new library annex that was completed just this last summer. Pretty impressive—a huge, sprawling postmodernish complex with four floors, benches and tables everywhere, and just an awful lot of space. I got to see a couple of those new "desk lamp" iMacs, though they weren't actually plugged in at the time. The place even had periodicals stacks shelves on moving tracks…the kind where you press a button, and they all move over until you can get at the ones you want. I remember being really impressed by those when my Dad showed me the ones that Arkansas State University's library had, a long time ago when we were living in Jonesboro and he was working there. Slick. Y'know, I can't help but thinking they'd be kind of a cool thing for a Half-Life modder to include in a mod sometime.
When I got back to the Career Services office, at about 3:30, they still weren't open. The fellow at counselling called around and checked, and it turned out they wouldn't be back that day. However, someone down the hall could take my check and see that it got to them. He seemed to be under the impression that it was farther away for me to come to campus than it really was, but hey, it's still a trip I'd rather not make twice if I don't have to, so what the heck.
This morning, I posted a look at the rumors surrounding the leaked photo of Palm's latest prototype, the "Oslo" OS 5 machine, on Writing On Your Palm. Feel free to take a look.
A few of us got together, hung out, shot the breeze for a few hours, then I headed home. On the way, I stopped in at a new pizza place that was on the way back—called "Ultimate Pizza" or something, located on South Campbell where the Hasting's used to be. I was pleasantly surprised; the pizza buffet was reasonable ($5.99, plus just 25 cents extra for a drink) and delicious, there were both public eating areas and closed-off rooms where the loudspeakers didn't blare, and there were a lot of cool-looking video and ticket games and Go-Karts and bumper cars and things that work off of a debit-card-style system, sort of like SMSU's Zip Cards or Kinko's Copy Cards. You pay money to charge the card, then swipe the card into the games and things. Anyway, I was impressed enough that I submitted it as a potential meetup site for meetup.com.
Yesterday I went in to campus to pay the $20 to the Career Services office so they'd host my credentials letters. Got there about 2:10; the office was closed. The counselling office next door suggested they'd be open after 3:00, so I went over to the computer building on the west side of campus to noodle around in the lab for about an hour.
On the way back, I stopped in at the brand spanking new library annex that was completed just this last summer. Pretty impressive—a huge, sprawling postmodernish complex with four floors, benches and tables everywhere, and just an awful lot of space. I got to see a couple of those new "desk lamp" iMacs, though they weren't actually plugged in at the time. The place even had periodicals stacks shelves on moving tracks…the kind where you press a button, and they all move over until you can get at the ones you want. I remember being really impressed by those when my Dad showed me the ones that Arkansas State University's library had, a long time ago when we were living in Jonesboro and he was working there. Slick. Y'know, I can't help but thinking they'd be kind of a cool thing for a Half-Life modder to include in a mod sometime.
When I got back to the Career Services office, at about 3:30, they still weren't open. The fellow at counselling called around and checked, and it turned out they wouldn't be back that day. However, someone down the hall could take my check and see that it got to them. He seemed to be under the impression that it was farther away for me to come to campus than it really was, but hey, it's still a trip I'd rather not make twice if I don't have to, so what the heck.
This morning, I posted a look at the rumors surrounding the leaked photo of Palm's latest prototype, the "Oslo" OS 5 machine, on Writing On Your Palm. Feel free to take a look.