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Symposium 2015
Apr. 26th, 2015 08:39 amThis year in the rare book room I found a 460 year old Phoenix:
( There were also sword talks, dagger demos, sword manual reviews, more rare books and food… )
( There were also sword talks, dagger demos, sword manual reviews, more rare books and food… )
Well, at least it's done
Apr. 23rd, 2013 09:32 pmI spent most of the evening putting in footnotes (OK, endnotes) for my presentation at the Sword Symposium on Saturday: http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/calendar.htm
If you're in the area, it is free and they give you lunch for free too! All you've got to do is call and sign up before hand...
I'm glad I've got the thing done. If PowerPoint has a good way to put in end notes, I couldn't find it.
So, I did them over in Word and imported them. Then it was just a matter of getting my page references from 4 books and a PDF of a 419 manual that I can't search electronically.
But, it is done. Assuming not brilliant points strike me in the next 4 days, all I've got to do is review it so I present it well Saturday morning.
(Some folks who know me better might say: "Frank, if you hadn't spend last week playing Starcraft: Heart of the Swarm, you wouldn't have had to spend 2 nights doing nothing else this week."
But, I would respond: "Getting it done 4 days early is a remarkable defeat of procrastination for me as it is. And, I got to see how this storyline in Starcraft finished. So, don't knock it...")
If you're in the area, it is free and they give you lunch for free too! All you've got to do is call and sign up before hand...
I'm glad I've got the thing done. If PowerPoint has a good way to put in end notes, I couldn't find it.
So, I did them over in Word and imported them. Then it was just a matter of getting my page references from 4 books and a PDF of a 419 manual that I can't search electronically.
But, it is done. Assuming not brilliant points strike me in the next 4 days, all I've got to do is review it so I present it well Saturday morning.
(Some folks who know me better might say: "Frank, if you hadn't spend last week playing Starcraft: Heart of the Swarm, you wouldn't have had to spend 2 nights doing nothing else this week."
But, I would respond: "Getting it done 4 days early is a remarkable defeat of procrastination for me as it is. And, I got to see how this storyline in Starcraft finished. So, don't knock it...")
