Between the end of the 3-4:30 breakout sessions and the screening of Get Lamp (d. Jason Scott, 2010) at 6pm in 107 Hall of Languages, you have some free time to eat & drink with your new-found THATCamp buddies and potential collaborators. Here are some nearby walkable options:

Strong Hearts Cafe
Marshall Square Mall (720 University Ave)
Vegan soups, salads, and sandwiches. Delicious vegan shakes.

Cafe Kubal
Marshall Square Mall (on University Ave)
Coffee & tea, sandwiches, pastries & such. Also, it’s inside a thrift store.

Faegan’s Pub
734 S Crouse Ave, Syracuse, NY 13210
It’s a pub. Pub food & lots of beers.

Sitrus on the Hill
(inside the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center)
This is a hotel bar, but you can also order food. Lots of room for a bigger group.

Varsity Pizza
802 S Crouse Ave
Pizza, sandwiches, pitchers of beer. Affordable and dripping with Orange Pride.

There are, of course, other options. If any SU people want to recommend places in the comments (or use the area to organize), I’ll add them to the map.

You can find all of these on this Google Map: THATCamp CNY Food & Drink Options.

I’ve become interested in the scholarly possibilities of Twitter bots. From bots that tweet a line from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, “over and over” (@TweetsOfGrass), to generating tweets that sound like Buddhist koans (@Horse_ebooks), to automating the writing of Modernist poetry (@MoPoBot), Twitter bots have invaded our timelines faster than we can block them. I’m proposing a session where participants can discuss ways in which scholars could use bots for our own pursuits. This would include using bots to isolate lines from longer pieces of literature, creating algorithmic methods for writing poetry, randomizing highlights from a collection, helping with vocabulary learning, or just making witty comments to amuse ourselves during office hours. If interest exists, we could also try to hack together a Twitter bot of our own.