Sat, 20 May 2006
Materials concerning my talk ...
will be put up on my website sortly. (I.e. as soon as I fixed the typo and replaced the transparent png that f***s up OpenOffice's PDF export IN EVERY SINGLE SLIDE :( I should really start using beamer or magicPoint or something ...)
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DebConf 6 - Random fun stuff There is a couple of things that we have a real abundance of:
- Huge insects that produce an incredible amount of annoying noise
- Cats and baby kittens (aaaaw)
- Chickens, especially chicken legs
- Tamarind flavoured water (tasty)
- VW beetles and VW buses (serving as taxis and normal public transportation buses. Hint: If it's white and turquoise, board it. If not, don't!)
- Epura filtered water bottles (cowards! ;-))
- Thinkpads (all over the place)
- People looking for the server room / info room key
- Real nice fruit, lots of!
- Creative sunburns
- Limes (mostly in halves)
- Straw hats
- Brixen boys
- SUNSHINE
Some more random remarks:
- The group picture has been taken. Why everyone has their mouth open? "Everyone say Tequilaaa"
- Christian: thanks for all the praise! You've always been my favourite pupil ;)
- When I got out of the pool the other day, wearing my really fancy new
bikini (special DebConf purchase), I got a compliment from the pool guard!
He said: "You swim well." :-| - Mucho luurve goes out to Benny!
- Christian, we took a Taxi, but apparently the bus works, too.
- People at home: I've been dropping roughly one safety
precaution per day. I eat whatever looks tasty, drink tap water and have
ice in my other drinks. I only put on sun screen of special occasions (i.e.
day trip), walk barefoot without looking down all the time, and don't check
my bed for scorpions before getting in.
I am still fit as a fiddle!
Seems Mexico isn't such a dangerous place after all. Relax everybody! :) - Mexico: I'll be back. One day. Promised!
Posted at: 20:35 in /english/debian/events/debconf6
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DebConf6 - Formal Dinner
Not much to say about the formal dinner. It was certainly a night to remember. A couple mishaps but also a lot of fun once the excitement had subsided. For more detailed accounts of that evening please refer to Joey Hess' wonderful article. For an account of the following night, or rather its results, please refer to debian-private or this DebConf6 blog post.
Posted at: 19:44 in /english/debian/events/debconf6
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DebConf6 Day Trip
As anticipated things began to run much more smoothly once the
conference had actually kicked off. Which was quite good, since
Wednesday/Thursday were pretty active days with the Day Trip on Wednesday
and the Formal Dinner on Thursday. I had not been to sure whether I should
go on the day trip or just stay home and sleep in for once, go to the pool,
rest a bit and basically do all the other stuff I didn't get around to
since I got here. In the end I did go though, and I am really happy about
it now. At least for me the day trip was a full success! We were picked up
around noon by a fleet of absolutely awesome fifties buses, all
streamlined with loads of chrome, pastel colours, saints icons, playboy
bunny heads and nice comfortable plush seats.
Xochicalco is a pretty
interesting site and our guide gave us a really nice tour of the museum and
the ruins. I didn't really mind the heat since I had put on enough sun
screen and brought long loose fitting cloths and a lot of water. Such
equipped I actually even enjoyed the dry heat and of course the spectacular
site. As usual, I did take pictures and haven't found the time to actually
upload them yet.
After the tour of the ruins we went for a late lunch to some place of which I sadly don't remember the name. The food there was the best I've had through the whole DebConf and it was pretty fun. One of the kitchen ladies wanted to take a picture with me. Don't know why, but it was pretty amusing since the whole kitchen crowd seemed to have immense fun with the whole thing. So, whatever, maybe one day I'll come back and find the picture on a wall. Who knows :)
After finishing our meal we went to Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos State, which has a large handicraft market. Unfortunately I had taken much more time for the lunch than anticipated so we only had 45 minutes to have a walk and buy some souvenirs. But it was fun anyway. The only drawback of the day was that we had to skip the guided tour in Cuernavaca since we were so late and had to be back to Oaxtepec for dinner. But there is already quite a list of stuff I actually wanted to do when here, so a tour of Cuernavaca goes to the long "One day I'll be back" list.
Summary: Great Day Trip! Well done. Cool buses!! Have to extend that once I am back *sigh*
Posted at: 19:20 in /english/debian/events/debconf6
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