A van shuttle, two planes, a bad airport sandwich, six tiny packs of peanuts, and about 3600 miles later I'm back in San Francisco after the 2008 Science Blogging Conference. I've got a little less than 24 hours to relax, unpack, spend some quality time with my man, before repacking and boarding yet another plane to head right back east to DC for a week of meetings. Yeah, I know I should have stayed there. But the DC gig fell into my lap kind of late and I couldn't piece together a new fare that didn't cost an arm and a leg. So it is what it is.Before I unwind, I wanted to be sure to share some of my favorites from the conference swag grab. That's right, it's not just celebrities who score gift bags at events. And while there were no complimentary week vacations in Telluride or sauna packages for two in these bags, our particular brand of swag appealed to the inner blog geek. Case in point, regard my much coveted freebies (last image at bottom of post) from Karen James at The Beagle Project. So thanks all you Science Blog sponsors for the great take-aways. I even did my part to contribute some CORAL swag to the masses as well. Here's a small sample of some of my plunder:
2 comments:
Nice swag shots. As far as I know the coveted Extinction Sucks lollies can only be acquired from the gift shop at the Natural History Museum in London. That's how special you are.
thanks again for the great swag from across the pond! knowing the crazy, hypersensitive "standards" in american museum shops and fear of parental backlash for what they might consider "vulgar" (as if their kids aren't saying worse!), i suspect they'd be too afraid to carry a product with the word "sucks" on it...
so yes, i feel very special!
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