Denver bound
Tomorrow morning I’ll go to Denver to the Innovative Users Group conference. I’m learn a bit more about customizing our OPAC interface; meet some people to help me jack it up before I explode it.
I’ve been doing a bit of searching about non-conference activites and am particularly looking forward to Body Worlds at the Museum of Science followed by some tunes, ‘wiches, and PBR at The Walnut Room. Today, I’m downloading the Pod City Guide to Denver… it’s an interesting service. I was bummed to discover, though, that it requires yet another (argh!) username and password account. I tell ya’; it’s silly how many identities I have.
Pine pointing good local music is the first thing I do when visiting any city. It’s a tough search, unless you live in a place it’s hard to know which is the most complete source for live shows. Sometimes the best listings are in print only and you wouldn’t find them online at all. This is true both on NH’s seacoast, The Wire and in the White Mountains, the Conway Daily Sun. Both areas have great music scenes, but you wouldn’t know it from internet searching.
I found the Walnut Room by using the MySpace Show Search for all shows within a 10 mile radius of my hotel. This searches the location venues and then links to the band site where you can hear songs. In short, it’s the most complete local music search I’ve ever found AND it provides song samples = an audiophile’s dream. I’d *really* love to make it to Boulder to the Fox Theater to hear Whiskey Blanket of whom I’d never heard, but really like their sound. Yay for mid-west hip hop.
