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mtml: day 1!
Jan. 23rd, 2011 11:03 pmToday was my first full day, waking up in Haifa for the MTML conference. Pretty interesting!
It got off to kind of a rough start; I'd expected to be able to get an adapter to plug in my laptop in one of the four airports I visited on the way to getting here, but surprisingly, no dice. So my alarm didn't go off like I expected it to, so I promptly woke up at 9:30, just as the workshop was starting...
( details! )
The most important thing I learned today: there's so much magic telepathy that we have from (a) knowledge of the cultural expectations of a place, like how to ride the bus, check in to a hotel, ask for directions, (b) being able to read signs, and (c) (perhaps most importantly) having internets, maps, and clocks in our pockets. All three of these failed on me today, and it was really quite disorienting.
Contrastingly, just a few days ago, when Lindsey and I went to Chicago, we breezed on in, used our magic cultural/technological telepathy to know exactly where to go, how to talk to people and what to do, and breezed on out, new passport in hand.
It got off to kind of a rough start; I'd expected to be able to get an adapter to plug in my laptop in one of the four airports I visited on the way to getting here, but surprisingly, no dice. So my alarm didn't go off like I expected it to, so I promptly woke up at 9:30, just as the workshop was starting...
( details! )
The most important thing I learned today: there's so much magic telepathy that we have from (a) knowledge of the cultural expectations of a place, like how to ride the bus, check in to a hotel, ask for directions, (b) being able to read signs, and (c) (perhaps most importantly) having internets, maps, and clocks in our pockets. All three of these failed on me today, and it was really quite disorienting.
Contrastingly, just a few days ago, when Lindsey and I went to Chicago, we breezed on in, used our magic cultural/technological telepathy to know exactly where to go, how to talk to people and what to do, and breezed on out, new passport in hand.
