I recently attended (and meant to attend) a few local events and lectures that I found particularly interesting (or thought they might be in the case of those I missed). One was a talk/slide show at the Rocky Mountaineers meeting by Dave Staling, who walked from Missoula to Waterton in 8 weeks via the back country. I suspected it would be a fascinating talk, and I wasn't disappointed. The next was a lecture at UM's Underground Lecture hall by a CalTech Chemistry Professor on harvesting power from solar energy. This was supposed to be a non-technical talk, but as a non-chemist, I found it still rather technical. However, it was highly entertaining and informative none-the-less. I meant to go watch a recent bicycle race at McCormick Park that sounded like fun (lots of obstacles and such), but completely spaced it out. And I heard belatedly about a talk at the UM on global warming that I would have loved to have gone to... if I'd known about it before it actually happened.
After the CalTech Solar Power lecture, I got the idea that I should post here about events that I'm planning to attend so that maybe others with the same interests might hear about them and want to go too. And maybe those who find themselves regularly attending the same things I do, might notify me of events I haven't heard of yet. Then, on a bathroom wall, I discover a poster informing me (and now you) that...
On Monday, November 5th at 4:00pm, executive editor of Wired magazine Bob Cohn will be giving a talk at the Missoula Art Museum. NewWest.Net says it "promises to be a fascinating conversation about Wired, technology, the Internet and the evolution of the media world." I think I might even manage to stay on the clock and drag along some co-workers for this one. See you there!
