NYC SciBlings MeetUp
clock | August 14, 2008One of the cool perks of being a scienceblogger and going to a meetup this year was the opportunity to go and see the Horse Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and to recieve (as we were not allowed to take pictures in there) a CD with some of the pictures. You can also see a lot more text and pictures, pretty closely following what is on the exhibit itself, on the excellent Horse Exhibit wesbite.
So, on Saturday afternoon, after the Meet-the-Readers event, several of us got on the subway and went up to the Museum. And I was not disappointed. You know I love…
clock | August 13, 2008During our trip to NYC we stayed at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel (see the reviews here and here):
The hotel was built specifically to aid the business of the United Nations next door:
The hotel was actually very nice - big room with a big comfy bed. Great location as well (on Friday we took a looooong walk from there all the way to the tip of the island; and it was just a few blocks away from the location of the Saturday night party) - an easy walk to Grand Central Station (and from there to the American Museum of Natural History - a subject for an entirely new post tomorrow), etc. - here…
clock | August 13, 2008More pictures, just a few. Some left out to protect anonymity, but mostly - I did not take that many as I was too busy tasting, and tasting again, and then again, some EXCELLENT wine:
clock | August 12, 2008Again, in a dark room, my camera used long exposures and thus many pictures are fuzzy. But you can see that we had lots and lots of readers come to see us, together with the NYC Skeptics:
clock | August 12, 2008A few more pictures. The room was dark so my camera used long exposure times, so some of the pics are fuzzy, but hey, I am an amateur:
clock | August 11, 2008After four days - last three of which I had no internet access - and after11 hours of travel door-to-door (or 8 hours from entering an airport and exiting another airport), I am home. Exhausted.
As I knew that several other Sciblings had to deal with the chaos of NYC air-travel this weekend. We were prepared - took it slowly and easily. Read a book. Could not login to JetBlue wireless (I think my PLoS laptop has so many layers of security, it does not allow me to connect to public wifi deemed too dangerous - that's why I need to get myself a Mac AirBook, or a Wee, for travel). People-…
clock | August 10, 2008To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
clock | August 10, 2008To protect the anonymous, nobody in the pictures is named, tagged or linked in any way. So, you don't know who is a blogger, who is Seed staffer, who is a reader, except for the few obviously well knows faces:
clock | August 9, 2008We barely made it to our 6am flight (so we did not get stranded like Sheril), so Mrs.Coturnix an I got to NYC about 7-ish and spend the entire day walking down the Lower East side of Manhattan, from the U.N. to Battery Park, and then took a cab back to the hotel (the last picture) where we started meeting the first SciBlings (next set of pictures, later today):