Webhead Fiesta

Webheads in Texas' Virtual Feast

On March 30th, I a will be hosting a "Welcome to Texas, Webheads" Virtual Feast at the Houston Street Bistro in San Antonio, Texas. The feast will begin at 6:00 PM (1200 GMT - I think I am writing this right, we are at GMT-6 here in Texas) and last as long as folks want to stay. I have arranged for three distinct Wifi connections to the internet and there are three guests who have offered to bring laptops and webcams to participate in this Webhead event. At last count, Buth, Vance, Christine, Jane, Elizabeth (and hubby?), Maria (and hubby?), Anna, and myself will be present. I am also hoping that Jim Duber and Rae Roberts, can stop by (they will be in San Antonio, but had prior commitments - I will at least try to get photo and audio blog from them). That is 10 wehbeads at one face to face meeting - am I breaking a record here?

On March 30, I will

On March 30, I will be proceeding to the Houston Street Bistro Restaurant to arrange seating for the face to face element of the Webheads in Texas' Virtual Fiesta at around 6:00 PM (2400 GMT). At about the same time, Dr. Karen Garcia will be getting ready to open part of the virtual Fiesta in her office in Learning Times, and Bea Dieu, will be getting ready to greet even more Webheads in the Lobby of TappedIn.

As many as ten Webheads, who will be convening in San Antonio, Texas for TESOL 2005 will be preparing to board warter taxis around 7:00 PM to make their way to the Houston Street Bistro (about a 10 minute ride by water). Once arriving they will set up three laptops with web cams and log onto the various cyber locations that the Fiesta will be broadcast to. Webheads around the world will be tuning up their PC's and checking into various locales to check their audio signals and connect with other cyber revelers.

Shortly after 7:00 PM (13:00 GMT), the Fiesta will commence.

Welcome

Welcome to San Antonio...the melting pot of Texas.

Upcoming Fiesta

Hi Bob--

And thanks for inviting me to be a junior author. Great idea! and thanks again for organizing this.

Elizabeth

Time is sneaking up on me....

Time is sneaking up on me, and I feel like there is so much still to do.  I am starting to recognize how much work goes into setting up an event such as this.  However, I have already decided that the worst thing that can happen is that several webheads will have an opportunity to have a real meal together.  If, beyond that, there are others that can join us virtually, then that would be wonderful.  And well beyond that, if some of the folks I have invited will show up and some of the events I have tried to schedule will actually work, then this should be a heck of a show.

Rain....

As I look out my back window this morning, I find the rain pouring down.  It's springtime in Texas.  It's also Easter weekend here, and to prove it I snapped this picture yesterday in Dallas.  I don't think this is quite what this holiday was meant to be, but increasingly, it seems to be celebration of the arrival of the Pink Bunny. 

Just a few more days to San Antonio.  I'll be hopping my way there soon.

ebob

The herd is on the way....

I just got an IM from Vance Stevens.  He is back in blue-skyed Texas.  We had a nice chat about the up-coming events and I manage to capture this shot through Trillian:  This is Vance's Dad - Darrell,  Vance's son - Dusty, and Vance.  I think Dusty is coming to San Antonio with him.  I told Vance, that if his Dad were to grow a beard there would be a good family similarity.  Vance's Dad just rubbed the his chin, thinking.... 

Wi-Fi in San Antonio

Dave Winet had inquired about WiFi connections at the TESOL convention this week in San Antonio.  I sent him the following reply: 

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First of all, I hope you will join us sometime on Wednesday night for the Fiesta.  We should be at the Houston Street Bistro until 10:00CST/04:00GMT (or at least some of us will), and we would be honored by your presence.

In my efforts to find a suitable place to set up a WiFi connection suitable for this meeting, I had occasion to look into potential sites all over downtown San Antonio.  San Antonio and Austin, Texas are a little more than 60 miles apart physically, but electronically or at least in terms of WiFi connections, they are worlds apart. Austin has a huge community of users who have literally put Austin on the map in terms of WiFi use.  San Antonio, on the other hand seems to be having some difficulty figuring out what WiFi is and whether or not they have it, and if they have it, how many body parts they are going to charge you for using it.

The wide open Texas sunset

There are few lovlier sites than a beautiful Texas sunset.  This was taken Monday afternoon, near Whitney, Texas.  It was on my way to Clifton, Texas where my Mom lives.  I was trying to get into this part of Texas early enough to get a couple of pictures of some of the old Lutheran Churches in the area.  The area around Clifton and Norse is known as the Norwegian capital of Texas.

The canvas of a Texas springtime

The wonderful Texas spring wildflower bloom is already a Fiesta in it's own riot or right.  Texas is very well known for the way Mother Nature uses the Texas landscape as a canvas in creating wonderful works of natural art.  Although, I am a few days yet from the peak of the spring bloom, as you can see, the paintbrush has already made a few strokes.