So, this time I get to make a post that has very little to do with KDE, because I want to :P
First, I'll note that the KDE ballcap that I picked up in Glasgow has been published in a photo on campus here. I was doing some outreach for the geological sciences department during our homecoming weekend where I got to chase down people and talk to them. The typical conversation went like this:
Me: Hey, want to see something cool? /me thrusts a rock into their hands.
Them: It's so heavy! What is it?
Me: It's a meteorite - mostly made out of iron and nickle.
Them: So this rock fell from space then?
Me: Yeah - the little pits on the side of it are where the atmosphere was scouring out the sides of it through friction.
Them: That is so cool! I've never touched a space rock before.
Me: If you're interested in this sort of thing, our museum is running tours today. It contains a great variety of rock and mineral specimens on display (thousands!), and quite a few interesting fossils, including dinosours.
Their kids: Oh! can we go there?
Me: .oO(My job is done!)
So anyway, this was two weeks ago: I must have had this exact conversation like 80 times that day with hundreds of people. It worked quite well as quite a few of them ended up on the museum tour that day.
One of the side effects of this event was that I was photographed talking to some alumni about the meteor, and in the photo, I was wearing my KDE hat. That photo then went out on of the weekly campus rags (hundreds to thousands of readers) and has been proudly plastered on the wall of the geological sciences department. So my KDE hat is there for everyone to see... if they squint! Whee!
I've also started to write my presentation for FOSSCamp, and while I've decided to steal a lot of material (and the template) from Aaron's previous presentations which talk about KDE 4's technologies, I've decided to put the focus on KDE's flexibility and choice as a positive thing. Its the whole 'putting you back in control of your computer/data' thing, which I'm hoping will go over well with a mostly *ubuntu crowd.
I will be presenting this talk at a few smaller venues (like some relatively local LUG's) and posting the slides online once I've given the talk for the first time.
In my thermodynamics course we just proved the equations representing entropy. As an anecdote, my prof starts talking about all the scientist who had committed suicide while working on thermodynamics. Turns out that some people consider the concept of entropy to be that depressing. (Look up Boltzman on wikipedia, he's one of the guys that committed suicide.)
Anyway, on that positive note, I go to sleep :)
Be safe folks.
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