SLA Wrap-Up: Wednesday
On Wednesday I attended the closing general session, which featured Scott Adams! But not before all the usual speeches (no ball gown beauties like at the opening session – boo!) and whatnot about next year’s conference, which I am already really looking forward to. It will be held in Seattle and the promo video was excellent, due in great part to the absence of Comic Sans and the fact that Nirvana found its way in! Not bad for a bunch of librarians. But seriously, it looks like it will be a great conference, especially because I won’t have to fly to get there!
Scott Adams’ keynote was great: he told some funny anecdotes about working for a large, soulless company and said that “the day you realise your efforts and your rewards are not related, it really frees up a lot of your time”. Interesting….
He then used overheads (OVERHEADS!) to show us comics that had either been censored by his editors or had resulted in a lot of complaints. One of the funniest ones involved a unicorn joke and the punchline “make my rare”. Awesome.
At the airport coming home, it seems every flight out of Denver got delayed big-time, but I made it home and into work the next day. Denver airport: not bad!