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Jun 25, 2009, 3:41:17 PM6/25/09
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> Kids around the world have pet pythons and love them. Demonizing
> snakes is a kind of species bigotry we hope the ape people grow out
> of. The snake people deserve more respect.

This was funny:

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/05/stupid-summer-movie.html

> I actually have a storyboard for a vodka commercial, developed with
> two actresses in mind, as train robbers in some Wild West setting. I
> won't give away the punch line, but it's definitely funny, you may
> have already guessed it, or are one of the two women, following my
> links (hi Hyzy).
>

Followup to some of the above, and getting more into the ancient Greek
stuff, setting the stage for humanities students. I'm predicting CS
students will account for a relatively minor pie slice of users,
although their ranks will be disproportionately represented on the dev
lists etc. i.e. technical expertise still counts for something in
PEPerLand.

http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2009/06/pythonic-means-pithy.html

Kirby

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Jul 23, 2009, 5:45:51 PM7/23/09
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:21 AM, kirby urner<kirby...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Elkner<je...@elkner.net> wrote:
>> I've just written a blog post reflecting on what a learned in teaching
>> Summer enrichment classes about girls and programming:
>>
>> http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/07/where-to-all-geek-girls-go.html
>>
>> Thoughts and/or feedback would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jeff elkner
>
> Appreciate it jeff, doing a reply-to-all expecting a lot of rejection
> notices, as some of these look like lists I'm not signed up for. But
> that's easier than culling. I read through your posting with
> interest, looks like you're on the right track.
>
> I'll end with some URLs to my stash, as this has likewise been a focus
> of my writings and teaching career, starting with two years right out
> of college in an exclusive Catholic academy for young women, me one of
> maybe just five male faculty, the rest of us nuns, lay women.
>
> Put another way: I've been trained by some of the best in this
> business, plus this was Jersey City, so all American and
> multi-cultural to boot (add in the fact that I went to high school in
> the Philippines following a wild boyhood in Rome, and you see where I
> might have some exotic perspectives, want to bring those to the table
> for whatever they're worth).
>
> To make a long story short: I think we're solving it in Portland,
> Oregon, OS Bridge a case in point (recent conference, at the
> convention center). Once you minus the Californian spin (lots at
> OSCON), add in more Canada, then amp up around local FOSS bosses, you
> get scheduled talks hammering directly on this topic, and hosted by
> well qualified women (as was OS Bridge itself, with all XX top
> leadership I'm happy to report).
>
> My new friend Josh from Chicago wasn't used to it, got his back up a
> bit, to see Gabrielle in alpha geek mode, clearly 2nd to none, a FOSS
> witch talking about her FOSS coven, where men are invited, but have to
> sit in the back. I'm just as bad, talking about this nebulous Coffee
> Shops Network (CSN), branch Cult of Athena, where we have this glass
> ceiling most men never see, let alone rise through.
>
> So that's Portlandia for ya, bad to the bone (lots of
> out-of-the-closet pirates), and XX-centric (she's a she, Portlandia
> is). Multiply that by Christian Science Monitor's saying we're a FOSS
> world capital, and you here's your new poster child (think
> "Pythonista"):
>
> http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/11/wild-america.html (note CS RR in
> the background)
>
> I'm also proud of these two, some of the best pro-XO PR on the block,
> consistent with the message of G1G1:
>
> http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/01/saving-children.html
>
> Anyway, that's enough off the top. Here're the promised pointers.
> Gabrielle and Selena had some words of advice: stick to "world
> domination" as our shared goal of our geek subculture, and we'll all
> get along just fine:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157315@N00/3639256600/in/set-72157619963850814/
>
> Kirby Urner
> in Portland
>
> Related blog posts:
> http://coffeeshopsnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/os-bridge-conference.html
> (re a marketing campaign)
> http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=6769590&tstart=0 (re
> Portland as hotbed)
> http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/09/yar.html (out of the closet)
>
>
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