Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random fun things
Another BarampCHS is in the bag. I haven’t seen any numbers yet, but attendance seemed lower this year, and there weren’t quite as many sessions. The ones that were presented were pretty good though.
Once again, I was wearing my Star Trek bathrobe 🙂
I pitched my amateur radio session again, and it got put on the schedule in the first time slot. Had a pretty decent turnout of people who didn’t have their licenses yet and were actually interested in getting one. I recycled my amateur radio talk from a couple of Barcamps ago and answered a bunch of questions. Tom/AJ4UQ stopped in towards the end and helped out a bit with the questions too. Then throughout the day, I had a few people stopping me to ask about how and where they could get licensed.
Joe/@joel8x got a picture of me giving my presentation
Joe did another great job wrangling Barcampers for the group photo just before lunch.
Having my talk in the first session of the morning meant I could spend the rest of the day attending sessions, and I was able to make it to some pretty good ones. Clay McCauley gave a nice talk on basic automotive maintenance. There was a short informative talk on the Shellshock vulnerability, and the last one I went to was a packed room talk on genetic programming by Ted Tanner.
Once again, another good BarcampCHS year where I learned a few new things.
Get your boarding pass!
Got a few photos back from the photographer from Saturday’s photo session near the Muttart Conservatory. Apparently the Muttart doesn’t allow professional photography shoots unless they’re booked in advanced, so we ended up heading out onto some of the nearby walking trails to take photos. I think it worked out better. The weather was great and the scenery on the trails was very nice with the leaves starting to turn colour.
This is the first time we’ve all been together in the same place at the same time in about 9 years.
It was a good day, and it was good being back together again even though it was only for the day.
On September 30, I will become a naturalized US Citizen. Connie and I will be celebrating the occasion over at Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ in West Ashley. You’re welcome to stop by at your leisure to join us for drinks and some of their yummy BBQ. We’ll be there from 7:30 PM to 9ish. Stop by and hang out with us a bit!
