GCDS: Wrap-Up

A few things since last blog post:

• Met lots of people and didn't get stuck with the same group the entire time
• Got some work toward Amarok done (not as much, thanks to beer/people)
• Got to talk to Gnomies, civilized conversations

Obligatory pictures:

Picture of Nikolaj taking a picture of the city with a far better camera than mine.

Metal giraffe meets metal man-thing!  I don't know, this was near one of the parties and I thought it was weird enough to merit a photo.

"Taiwanese" restaurant, ended up going 3 times to mainly because it was cheap.  Ranks 4-6 on the 1-10 scale of delicious/price ratio for Chinese food.  The people working there were mainlanders, not Taiwanese.  Not what I'm used to, but amazing enough to find a Chinese restaurant on an island off the coast of Africa I guess.

Paid breathalyzer test!   You blow into a straw into this machine, and it tells you if you can drive or not.  Yeah...

Anyway, a good conference, read everyone else's long blogposts about things that happened and opinions on things and such.  That's all for this one.

ATTN: OWNER OF AN ONITY PASS CARD

I've found an Onity pass card that could be from a hotel or something, it says "Onity innovative thinking" on the front and has operating instructions on the back. If you have lost a card, please let me know.

Gran Canaria: A Few Photos

Words are boring, keeping it short:

• Good keynote speakers
• People misconstruing speech
• Overpriced food
• Coffee and Ice Cream
• Bad internet, no plugs
• Good discussions with cool people
• Same warm weather each day (twilight zone)
• People who speak odd/bad Spanish, and no English
• Having to translate for everyone due to the above

Vodka for breakfast anyone? For some reason the buffet here thought this was a good idea. I suppose the rich old Europeans might get impatient and need something to calm their nerves while their mountains of high-calorie food arrive.

It seems that a ~ is missing in a most unfortunate place. For those of you who don't know Spanish, this cake says something like "Happy anuses."

1/2 a kilo of ice cream for about 6 euros 50. Downed it between Leinir and me.

More to blog at some point when I have more words. This blogpost was a day in the making. That's how long it took to upload my photos without a timeout. Right then, bye for now!