Free high-speed wireless Internet! Sweet!
Those were my first thoughts when I struggled my suitcase into the swanky ninth-floor room of the Omni Hotel in Philadelphia and read the sheet of paper lying on the desk. I dumped my stuff into a couple of drawers, pulled out my laptop, said hi to my roommate for the next three days, and began typing this post.
I am actually in Philly for another ISI colloquium, this one entitled "Law, Liberty, and the Rise of the West." It has about 240 pages of reading, and I have done maybe 50 of that. So I need to stop now and spend the next three hours working through some more of it. I also am sick with a cold and a headache, however, so I don't know how much I'll do.