More to come : a beautiful city with great architecture.

Yesterday, we had a very nice meet and greet reception at the Pasadena Masonic Temple, another hundred-year-old building.

We also have had a lot of good food, including whatever they call these things. I showed self-discipline and limited myself to just one.

Further into the conference Center, we have 59 breakout sessions that will be occurring over the course of 2 days (not pictured). We also have poster sessions from current grad students (pictured)

Inside, we have our fantastic registration and information desk, staffed by such wonderful #loex2025 volunteers as Valentin from Fullerton College.

We're located just east of The 100-year-old Pasadena Civic Auditorium. A beautiful old building.

Ok, let's get a long #loex2025 thread going. We are coming to you LIVE from fantastic SoCal.

From the Convention Center in the City of Roses

Google, continuing its mediocre performance.

- Search: "christmas carol"

It (reasonably) assumes I'm looking for info on the Dickens' book. It provides a link to a free version of the 1843 novella.

But it also indicates that Jack from Nightmare before Christmas is in it. What's this, indeed?

I guess in a few months, LOEX will be a top 10% Bluesky elder. So that's nice.

For any interested, here is 1 result. Gemini managed to get an impressive 4 things wrong in one short "answer":

- Salem High has ~20 dates scheduled this season
- It's matches, not games
- Salem only plays one of the "North" teams listed
- Churchill and Franklin are N & E, but not S!

The #loex2024 conference in Naperville, Illinois is under way! One method to break the ice and get librarians to meet and greet? Give them a puzzle to do (which 10 librarians knocked out in under two hours).