[Building Sakai] Why do we still have the "mercury" site in Sakai's trunk

[Aaron Zeckoski]

You better go mad scientist or you'll be mobbed by Twilight fans.
-AZ


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 9:05 PM, David Ackerman wrote:
>
> +1, but I heard his Blackboard dealt forbids public singing.
>
>
> au contraire David!
>
> As a matter of fact, at the Sakai Conference in Atlanta, Blackboard paid for
> about $800 worth of singing+beer+snacks :)  Of course my travel
> reimbursement is not completely through the Blackboard approval process yet
> so *I* might end up paying for the singing personally.  I think $3000 of
> steaks might be slowing the reimbursement process down a bit :)
>
> And at the recent IMS Learning Impact conference in Toronto which was the
> first I attended representing Blackboard, the *only* Blackboard task I was
> given was to arrange for an evening of Karaoke for the attendees.  I was
> privately told by a colleague at Blackboard that my Blackboard boss (the
> person who would be approving my travel expenses) would be *very
> disappointed* if I failed to arrange for suitable Karaoke at that meeting.
>  I was successful and it turns out she is a great singer and indeed does
> love Karaoke (as should everyone).
>
> So Blackboard is defiantly pro-singing.  For the upcoming Balckboard
> developer conference July our party won't include singing - it will be a
> vampire/zombie/mad scientist costume party / contest.  Trying to decide
> between mad scientist and vampire.  When I wake up in the morning, my hair
> is a perfect winning costume for mad-scientist but I am leaning toward a
> tuxedo-wearing suave vampire.
>
> :)
>
> /Chuck
>
>
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