[Chicago] Pycon / Havana (hijacked GIL thread)

[Daniel Peters]

This was a cool thread!  I had no idea about the import ban on computer tech
in cuba.

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:51 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The best part is that we could get cuban hotel food!
>>
>
> That's a whole other thread for when the time comes.
>
> There's a media campaign to defend Cuba against fast food chains, on the
> same logic Disney World uses to keep out KFC or whatever competitors
> (Vatican likewise).
>
> "Slow food" is popular in Europe as well, a kind of blowback as this aspect
> of USA culture is somewhat despised in many zip code areas (97214 included).
>
> Picture of me outside Cuban restaurant with Alex Aris and physicist Bob
> Fuller.
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5584181036/in/set-72157627320573000/
>
> An entire city that's McDonald's Free is a tourism / convention destination
> just for that reason among some elites.
>
> I know some geeks who'd like at least one of the food lines at some of
> these conferences to feature raw vegan, other such options, made by other
> geeks (O'Reilly has a new cookbook).
>
> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805890 (raw vegan is a main feature of
> the Blue House diet, where we have offices **).
>
> OSCON featured Ben & Jerry's ice cream, hardly vegan, but a Unilever
> product (one of the companies with a presence in Cuba).
>
> Such experiments, overlapping with "quantified self movement", are already
> a part of the health and lifestyles track at OSCONs, although it's so far
> more talking than doing at the conference itself.
>
> I did go through an inflated obstacle course in one of the time slots at
> OSCON 2011.
>
> Other activities included a kind of horizontal bungee game and a log
> rolling exercise (all inflatables).  I'm sure you can find pictures of these
> games.
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/5979787797/in/set-72157627166240377
>
> Anyway, I won't keep adding to this thread on ChiPy as I think we've got it
> in the ballpark and details might be hashed out elsewhere (e.g. Diversity).
>
> Ciao for now, back to lurking,
>
> Kirby Urner
> thekirbster @ Flickr
> follow @psf_snake on Twitter
>
> ** including last night, Chairman Steve (PSF) one of our dinner guests,
> always game to try something new
> http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2011/07/bizmotica.html
>
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