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Posted onSeptember 10, 2020September 22, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Chupaqueso

by Elze

What is chupaqueso? To quote Linucon program book, “The experts prepare cheese in a fried cheese shell, with extra cheese. The audience gets to eat…

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Posted onSeptember 6, 2020September 6, 20202005

Liquid nitrogen — the real star of Linucon 2005

by Elze

Rob Landley (in a black T-shirt with caffeine formula) is mixing ice cream, to be frozen later with nitrogen vapor. Cathy Raymond (in a grey…

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Posted onSeptember 5, 2020September 22, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Cosplay

by Elze

Many science fiction conventions I attended had a masquerade, but this was the first one where it was called cosplay. In any case, it’s just…

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Posted onAugust 29, 2020September 10, 20202005

Hall costumes at Linucon 2005

by Elze

On Saturday morning there was a Fun With Liquid Nitrogen event in the Consuite. The masters of liquid nitrogen “cooked” various food items in it,…

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Posted onAugust 25, 2020August 25, 20202005

Linucon 2005: World building panel

by Elze

I was about 20 minutes late to this Saturday morning panel. In the pre-baby days an early panel was at 10 or 11 am (mostly…

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Posted onAugust 23, 2020September 19, 20202005

Linucon 2005: This topic is intentionally left blank

by Elze

The name of this panel hints at the lack of preparedness on the part of organizers — and, given the trouble they’ve been through this…

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Posted onAugust 22, 2020August 22, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Adventures in Costuming

by Elze

On Friday I went to a discussion panel “Adventures in Costuming”, where the panelists were Cathy Raymond (wife of Eric Raymond of open source fame,…

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Posted onAugust 22, 2020August 22, 20202005

Larval Mode: a Linucon 2005 panel

by Elze

The name Larval Mode comes from the Hacker’s Dictionary, where it means the state of being a novice programmer or techie. The panelists were Eric…

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Posted onAugust 20, 2020August 20, 20202005

Linucon 2005: Opening ceremony

by Elze

It’s that time of the year! Linucon 2 — a joint Linux and science fiction convention — is upon us! After spending a frustrated half…

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Posted onAugust 18, 2020August 20, 20202005

E’s 5th and 6th months, September-October of 2005

by Elze

Close to 5 months: E rolls over from back to front. She’s been doing that for a while, but I was able to film it…

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