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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Exact flavors subject to change! Many will be in small batches, and disappear fast.
Ingredients will be available each LN2 session to make non-dairy and/or no-sugar-added frozen treats, along with various toppings and mix-ins such as bacon maple syrup.
LN2 Good Intentions
Friday night, 11pm-1am
Chocolate Ice Cream (yeah, just plain chocolate)
Zesty Lemon ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The bomb scare over the LN2 tanks was all over by the time we got to the con. This year at Penguicon, we ran 5 two-hour LN2 ice cream sessions (four scheduled, one bonus). This worked much better than the shorter sessions we'd run in previous years, because it meant ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Penguicon is the annual volunteer-run convention combining open source software, science fiction, food geekery, and more in one swell DIY-in-Detroit package! I'll write up details of my Penguicon 2012 experience soon, but first I wanted to say what a great job Penguicon did at running their ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
I enjoyed what I got to do at Penguicon this year (this weekend just past), including
Technical:
Giving a technical presentation: There were about 12 attendees for my Continuous Integration talk Sunday morning (see description in comments). There were a few sysadmin types; most were developers, most from small ...
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Since I finally uploaded the photos from Catherine Devlin's RenPy talk at Penguicon 2010, I thought I'd write up the whole-con highlights as I remember them (prompted by my tweets at the time):
Technical talks
Linux Localhost Troubleshooting (by LinuxJournal's Kyle Rankin), well laid out and informative
Catherine Devlin, pyOraGeek, gives talks ...
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
I'm really looking forward to Penguicon, an open source and science fiction convention coming up in Michigan this weekend. In previous years I've been a presenter and panelist, but this year I'm just going to make batches of liquid nitrogen ice cream as my contribution, and enjoy roaming the halls; see ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Jack Vinson's impressions of a recent conference caught my eye. I'm not crazy about the name (I so much prefer "participatory web" to web/anything "2.0"), but I know I'm fighting against the tide here. Anyway, several interesting bits:
"The Wachovia presentation this morning appears to have opened some people's eyes on ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Benjamin Mako Hill (Penguicon Guest of Honor, OLPC Common Resources developer, and of other fame) joined us, so the roundtable started with a 15-minute Q&A with him (I hope he was ok with that; the panelists (Frank Schreiber, cmdln, and I) hadn't really come up with a game plan for ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Links relevant to the post I will make shortly:
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill's entry about Penguicon
BMH after Negroponte's remarks
OLPC changes and uncertainty
OLPC developers are not open source fundamentalists
Disruption and Hope
Back to the Roundtable:
cmdln's detailed write-up of Mako's comments at the start
photo 1
photo 2
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night. From midnight until past 2 am :
mint irish cream
triple chocolate
cinammon orange creamsicle
vanilla raspberry
another chocolate
soda slushies
Sunday, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Penguicon 2008 is almost here! Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary). I'll be participating, too! I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sorry for the downtime last week -- the host box developed a motherboard / power supply problem. It's back up on a new box, and I'm hoping to tinker with WordPress next month. Sooner than than that, I'll post about my election judge experience.
In the meantime, here are links to ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
If you've been wishing you could have attended Penguicon, good news! The audio from my "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job or Your Mind" co-panel with Gini Judd is now up on the Internet Archive thanks to the good folks at Penguicon (staff). No clue of the ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
I'm glad to see I'm not the only person still talking about Penguicon.
After the con, I had been going to link to other reports, but there were quickly far too many to write about individually; here's a list as of April 28.
Scott Whiteman at techPersonal: general impressions and Tech ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I took a longer break from blogging here than I'd anticipated, but I'm cranking back up again.
Recently I noticed that Pieter Spronk, the author of my favorite PalmOS game, Space Trader, is the Director of Studies of Knowledge Technology at Universiteit Maastricht. He also teaches Logic and Games & ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
After my Knowledge Gardening talk was accepted for Penguicon 5.0, Matt Arnold the Programming Wrangler copied me on email asking who was interested in co-panelling on [a list of possible topics]. I picked "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job, Or Your Mind", and emailed my co-panelists ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
My Knowledge Gardening talk at Penguicon went very well. I was delighted with the interest in my talk and the discussion afterwards. I had put in a lot of prep time putting what I knew into slide format and researching examples (saved to my links library) of knowledge ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I had a great time at Penguicon. My talk and my panels went pretty well (more on them in future entries), I attended interesting talks, got to dance, and met some pretty cool people. There was a lot of neat stuff to be found just wandering the halls; ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
erp4it: A metadata rant is an example of folks reacting badly to the term "metadata". In the linked entry, the rant is in the context of IT and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but I've also seen other vehement objections to the term (see the Wikipedia criticisms on it). ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on.
If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...
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