The translator conference is finished, and I’m totally wiped out. Between running up and down the three floors at Shambhala Hall, trying to listen carefully to the discourse on how to translate “blo”, “nam par she pa”, and the like, and just generally trying to stay sharp for 12 hours a day wiped me out. The original plan was to blog DURING the conference, provide a more timely view into the happenings, but I was simply too busy to get to my computer and provide a narrative. However, as some of you know, I dropped online every hour or so on my mobile to see if anyone was live chatting on Meebo. I spoke with a few of you, and I was happy to answer your questions and, in at least one case, point you to the Buddhist Geeks live video stream of Jeffrey Hopkins. This was an amazing conference unlike any I’ve been to (I’ll get into how the conference was arranged in a different post later). In any case, I will report my observations over the course of the next few weeks instead of trying to cram all my notes in at one time. Besides, it’s just too much to do all at once. I’ll also comment on post-conference developments as I hear about them.