[penguicon-general] A couple of thoughts about programming

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On Saturday 28 April 2007 7:03 am, Rick Scott wrote:
> (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.

Fettucine Penguicon?  Sounds interesting, but may require more hardware and 
cooking apparatus than would be easy to assemble at a convention....


>
> This could get crazy.  Fire could be involved. 

See my (much) earlier comment about not destroying the hotel.  :-)

> If the piping bags come 
> out, all bets are off.

Agreed.  Though at least that wouldn't risk destroying the hotel.  Frosting 
wars could be quite interesting.  
>
> > 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.

It would certainly draw the fanboys, so long as we remembered to put photos of 
Dr. Cresswell on the flyers.  :-)


-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>

"You've got to have the proper amount of disrespect for what you do."  
-- George Mabry