[penguicon-general] A couple of thoughts about programming

[Rick Scott]

(Catherine Olanich Raymond:)
> Or not.... What *can* you do to have fun with whipped cream, other
> than spraying it on people or desserts?  And how can we feature
> putting whipped cream on desserts in a way that would be
> interesting enough to justify adding it to the Food Track?

If you do a bit of linguistic legerdemain and interpret "whipped cream"
as "heavy/whipping cream", there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with it.
Like demonstrating how to make your own dessert topping that's infinitely
preferable to the canned stuff.  Or making things like pastry fillings.
Or cream sauces -- alfredo is what one usually thinks of, but things
get really interesting when you add a bit of vodka to the mix.  

This could get crazy.  Fire could be involved.  If the piping bags come
out, all bets are off.


> At least Eric would attend that one.  I'll leave it to the list to
> come up with mathematicians who might be interested/interesting.
>
> Oh wait, I thought of one:  How about Dr. Clio Cresswell, the
> author of this book:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Sex-Clio-Cresswell/dp/1741141591

*boggle* 

If that's not a title that's appropriate for this conference, then I 
don't know what is.




Cheers,
Rick
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