[AG-TECH] Re: Beer
Tom Coffin
tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Thu Dec 6 10:01:14 CST 2001
a fine belgium beer for nary a nickle (well at least there):
http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ART/Brussels/br15.jpg
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At 06:36 AM 12/6/2001 -0900, Guy Robinson wrote:
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>Having heard Jennifer talk on the subject I vote she be our first speaker,
>perhaps giving the keynote/opening session.
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>Guy
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>On Dec 5, 4:06pm, Don Morton wrote:
>> Subject: Beer
>> All, in an effort to encourage more informal use of the Access Grid
>> (motivation is to make people more comfortable with the AG so that
>> they'll feel more at ease using it in other applications and, in
>> a sense, become more AG-literate), a handful of us would like to
>> propose a short (maybe half-day at most) AG symposium entitled,
>> "Beer." This is in an early, formative stage, and subject to
>> input from others but, roughly what we were thinking was
>> something along the lines of invited presentations from those
>> who actually know about beer (unlike us Montana slobs who
>> simply drink it because it's good). One could envision
>> an opening presentation concerning the history of beer,
>> another might get into some of the technical details, another
>> might be a "how to brew your own" (we have a faculty member
>> here who would be interested in presenting), another on "how
>> to be a beer snob" :), etc., etc. Naturally, we need people
>> to present - perhaps several of us could invite local
>> brewers (public outreach, ya know!! :).
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>> Then, we could recess and spend a couple of weeks locally practising
>> what we've learned by sampling a given set of beers (homework!!!),
>> then convening on the AG for a discussion, debate, etc. on
>> the various beers.
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>> It would be really great if we could get international interest in
>> this, particularly to engage in the lively debate, "are Yank beers
>> really as bad as others claim??" :)
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>> Right now, I'm thinking something like this might start in early or
>> mid-January. If you're potentially interested in this, please
>> let me know. I assume our Argonne friends would prefer that
>> we not carry out excessive beer discussions on this list so,
>> I'm happy to compile a separate email list or create a listserv
>> for the event.
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>> Cheers, and Bottoms Up, :)
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>> Don
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>> Don Morton http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
>> Department of Computer Science The University of Montana
>> Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
>>-- End of excerpt from Don Morton
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