<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Quad Videotape Group News and Pictures--Summer/Fall 2010 edition--Section 6-Wrapping AMIA 2010-Almost<br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br><div><div>The View from the 33rd floor of Lowe's Philadelphia Hotel, en-route to the AMIA Closing Cocktail party, looking west into downtown just after the sun set. The Philly DTV transmission antennas are on a hill to the left of this view.</div><div><img height="429" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FB52A634-CD9E-485F-9CB8-A8C022A3191B@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>LoC's James Snyder and former Ampex engineer Jim Wheeler at the cocktail party.</div><div><img height="429" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:18FC1DA9-6859-4F93-BB8C-7E76B4B26C5B@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>That was followed by Dinner at the <b><a href="http://www.citytavern.com/">City Tavern</a></b>—where the founders held the first Fourth of July celebration.</div><div><img height="429" width="644" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:55E65877-CD5E-44C9-921B-9CCC7D6B02F7@colubris.lan"></div><div><br></div><div>I don't know what<i> they</i> talked about, but we had more wonderful food with a Colonial theme served by Colonially dressed wait staff<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, </span></font>commensurate CC charges and conversation, not necessarily about Quad, but more about bits and data wrangling and what to do with the bits so they don't become digital kibble. </div><div><br></div><div>I think we closed this place, too, and enjoyed a nice walk back to the car. </div><div><br></div><div>Our group above wanted to know how David Crosthwait was doing on his drive back to California, so we sent a text message... and the next morning got a hand-held iPhone video labelled "poor man's Steadicam" and e-mail assuring our group here that everything was fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Back at the hotel... it was time to sleep in for an extra hour as the time shifted from Daylight to Standard time.</div><div><br></div><div>Next: Back to Culpeper!</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>