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Minneapolis Memory

kevinyezbick — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:51:27 +0000

Still fishing through the old videos – came across this one:

I miss Minneapolis from kevinyezbick on Vimeo.

After a long evening on the town during PLA 08 – before throwing myself onto bed and into slumbers – I took it all in for a moment from my room at the Westin – and tried to balance out the chaos. I was grinning ear to ear while I filmed this — and it all looked much more wonderful at the time. Still – it’s interesting to look back on something so amazing, and be amazed, by my own amazement.

Muxtapin Minneapolis

kevinyezbick — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:08:46 +0000

I know. I know. I said I would be updating and blogging PLA08. Funny thing happened at the conference — I wound up having a really, really good time — and probably spent the least amount of time on the Interwebs that I have in ages.

What does a week away mean? It means getting a week behind.

Take a week to look through these, while listening to the soundtrack @ http://kevinyezbick.muxtape.com/:

PLA 2008 – Minneapolis, MN

kevinyezbick — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:42:28 +0000

Headed to Minneapolis today for the Public Library Association’s 12th National Conference. Thanks to Rex I have an insider’s list of places to hit up while I’m in town.

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There’s also this list of 150 things to do while in Minneapolis, divided by season. While officially we’ve made our way into Spring, many of the posts to Twitter echo the same sentiment — something along the lines of: “looking forward to such and such at PLA, not looking forward to the cold.” The weather will likely inihibit some of the extracurricular activities for the week — but the forecast really isn’t all that much different than what we’ve got here in Michigan – highs in the 40s with some rain towards the end of the week.

I’m going through the twitter search engines looking for other people posting about PLA. Twitter’s been around for a while and there’s been clamoring for twitter groups — and it’s large events like these that would benefit the most from that feature.

This will be my first national conference of any sort – so I’m looking forward to the experience – and will likely be starstruck by all the nifty librarians I’ve been following for some time on the Internetz. I printed out the Tips for Conference Bloggers [pdf] sometime ago – but never really got around to reading it. I’ll likely just post my notes and have a lot of twitter action. Maybe this will actually be the week I iron out some of the transitional miscues from moving to movabletype 4 – like that archives link on the bottom of this page that takes you nowhere.

Time to get a move on…see you in Minneapolis.

Johnny Carson Passes

kevinyezbick — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:01:21 +0000

CNN.com – Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dead at 79 – Jan 23, 2005 This is made slightly more poignant due to the recent stories that Johnny had been slipping Letterman jokes for latenight…

– NYT – retrospective –
– Quotes from Johnny Carson’s final ‘Tonight Show’ from the Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune –

– Technorati: Johnny Carson
—nice tribute here from ingridspangler—
– C-Net: Net Mourns death of Johnny Carson –

– Yahoo News Slideshow — Photos of Johnny

The true king of latenight.

– Wikipedia: Johnny Carson –

– Johnny Carson on The Simpsons: Krusty Gets Kancelled [Simpson's Site] –