{"id":1164,"date":"2009-06-11T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2009-06-11T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:12:00","slug":"off-to-cesnur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Off to CESNUR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After the better part of two days on the road, M. and I arrived this afternoon at a Homestead Suites<\/a> hotel in Salt Lake City, where I will be attending the CESNUR<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n

The trip started off on a sour note, because my previously trusty-if-aging G4 PowerBook laptop developed a series disk-access problem on Monday night, taking the last version of my paper with it.<\/p>\n

So, fellow professors, if your students say that the computer crashed the night before their papers were due, sometimes<\/span> they might be telling the truth. (On the other hand, “grandmother’s funeral” is probably made up.)<\/p>\n

I will be reading partly from handwritten notes on Friday, I suspect.<\/p>\n

We began with a long detour to Colorado Springs to drop the PowerBook off at Voelker Research<\/a>, where the service techs considered it gravely and offered a 50\/50 chance of data recovery in five or six days.<\/p>\n

Ah, Colorado Springs, where there is no east-west through highway and never has been. Eventually by a series of zigs and zags known to locals we cleared town about 2 p.m. Then Ute Pass<\/a>, Wilkerson Pass<\/a>, Hoosier Pass<\/a>, Vail Pass<\/a> and westward into the desert until we finally called it a day in the motel oasis of Green River, Utah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every time I go through Green River I more and more get the feeling that it is picking up the people who cannot afford to live in trendier Moab.<\/a><\/p>\n

Weirdly, it was raining in Green River today. That must be an event. It turned the land a darker shade of tan.<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s raining all over Utah, as witness the photo of the hotel’s back garden, which looks semi-tropical. I was happy to drop the bags, pop the top off a bottle of Polygamy Porter <\/a>(which ought to be the official beer of CESNUR), and relax.<\/p>\n

M. has discovered that Whole Foods, Nordstrom’s, Barnes & Noble, a public library, and a large park are all within about two blocks, so she has everything she needs, she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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