Are you staying at the Congress Hotel? That's where my jeep was stolen from the valet a couple of years ago. But it's a decent hotel for the money. My undergrad alma mater, Roosevelt University, is across the street in the old Auditorium Hotel building. Have fun. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, I got myself signed in at the conference yesterday. Bob Sullivan > drove me down to the convention center where we found the west-side > entrance blocked off. Around the east side we found lots of people and > some prominent Adobe banners down at one end. Of course, the real > entrance was at the other end. Doh! Walked back and got in but couldn't > find registration. One of the officials gave me directions: Up two > escalators, over to the other side of the building, down two escalators > and turn left. Which put me right at the west side of the conference > center which we couldn't drive to directly because it had been blocked > off. > > Scattered all over the place were "Adobe PDF Kiosks". Couldn't even > guess what a "PDF Kiosk" might be as I hustled back (up two escalators, > across the building and down two escalators) to the festivities. > (Meaning "food and booze"). BTW: When I registered for the conference, > the web forms I filled in had a prominent section asking about special > dietary needs: Vegan, vegetarian and a couple of others. About a week > before the conference I received an email update about my "vegetarian" > selection. It basically said "We're serving everything buffet style so > just don't eat stuff with meat in it". How helpful. > > I checked on the shuttle service they provide to downtown and > discovered the good news is that it stops at the Hilton just a block > down from the hotel where I'm staying. Cool. But they only run the > shuttles for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, so it's > an all-day thing or nothing if you're traveling by shuttle. Other good > news about my hotel, though: It's right next door to Columbia College, > which houses the Museum of contemporary Photography. Of course it opens > after the shuttle buses leave in the morning and closes before they > come back, so I may not be able to go in, but I can at least peer in > the windows as I go by. > > Saw some preliminary presentations during the opening festivities last > night. The main theme seems to be "Don't ever use 100k of bandwidth > when you can convey the same information with 10Meg". > > I discovered what a PDF Kiosk is! It's a computer with and Internet > connection. i can walk up and log in with my conference ID and password > and surf the net free for as long as my legs hold up - they're set at a > height you can only use while standing and there a conspicuous absence > of chairs of the correct height (or indeed any height). Still don't > know why they're called "PDF" kiosks. > > Summary of event so far: Typical Adobe user interface. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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