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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:13 am Post subject: Holiday Work |
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Well, tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 19/06), I leave for a 2 week working 'holiday' to Santiago de Cuba, getting back home on Jan 2/07.
A team of 13 or 14 from all over the world are due to converge on the Universidad de Oriente http://www.uo.edu.cu/ in Santiago de Cuba to revamp the university's network.
This work is being done in association with the World University Service of Canada http://www.wusc.ca/welcome/.
All personnel are providing their time 'pro bono'.
The Cuban Government is picking up the tab for flights, hotel, transportation and basic living expenses.
The only down-side is that because the Cubans are paying, we must fly on Cubana Airlines !! http://www.cubana.cu/html/ingles/index.asp?language=GB.
Hopefully we get 1 of their 2 Airbus A-320's NOT the Yakovlevs, Antonovs or Illushins.
Can anyone lend me their copy of the last season of "LOST" DVD for some pointers???
btw, their Internet connections are so intermittent and flaky that it is not worth considering BORGING their workstations.
See you all in the new year. _________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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Bellator Prince
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 741 Location: Provence
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Bon voyage! I haven't been to Cuba since 1953 and I imagine it has changed somewhat. I wonder if La Floridita - the cradle of the frozen daiquiri - still exists. Hasta mas ver. _________________
Nothing is more futile than the memory of a temptation resisted
ubi bene ibi patria |
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: Re: Holiday Work |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote: | Well, tomorrow (Tuesday Dec 19/06), I leave for a 2 week working 'holiday' to Santiago de Cuba, getting back home on Jan 2/07.
A team of 13 or 14 from all over the world are due to converge on the Universidad de Oriente http://www.uo.edu.cu/ in Santiago de Cuba to revamp the university's network.
This work is being done in association with the World University Service of Canada http://www.wusc.ca/welcome/.
All personnel are providing their time 'pro bono'.
The Cuban Government is picking up the tab for flights, hotel, transportation and basic living expenses.
The only down-side is that because the Cubans are paying, we must fly on Cubana Airlines !! http://www.cubana.cu/html/ingles/index.asp?language=GB.
Hopefully we get 1 of their 2 Airbus A-320's NOT the Yakovlevs, Antonovs or Illushins.
Can anyone lend me their copy of the last season of "LOST" DVD for some pointers???
btw, their Internet connections are so intermittent and flaky that it is not worth considering BORGING their workstations.
See you all in the new year. |
I just hope you make it back, check on Fidel while you're there.
All kidding aside, please be very careful, we would miss our Sir CC. _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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Good Luck! _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
Keeper of the Unending keg of PGGBs
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 5117 Location: Beer City, Cheese Quadrant
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:26 am Post subject: |
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That's good work if you can get it!
Don't worry about the airplane breaking up in mid-air, there's plenty of water for you to land in.
ni! i!u |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Bellator wrote: | Bon voyage! I haven't been to Cuba since 1953 and I imagine it has changed somewhat. I wonder if La Floridita - the cradle of the frozen daiquiri - still exists. Hasta mas ver. |
La Floridita is still there in Old Havana as is La Bodeguita del Medio which was Hemingway's bar of choice for Mojitos.
We are going to be quite close to Playa Daiquiri which is where Teddy Roosevelt and his boys landed back in 1898, but the beach itself is very overgrown and not very inviting. _________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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Tenebra Prince
Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 2053 Location: Somewhere in the Outer Rim of a Galaxy far far away
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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My sister went to Cuba twice, but not on vacation... She went for my father to get the blue scorpion venom, which is supposed to help cancer patients. Unfortunately my dad's conditions was too far advanced and he died in February 2005.
She liked Cuba very much. She said that Cubans are friendly and very clean people. Although living conditions for Cubans are not the best.
However, do get any info on that cancer cure, I have heard it has helped a lot of patients. It is still being researched, but it seems that it is a viable solution, and a much better alternative to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Which do not really work as much as doctors want us to believe. For every cancer cell they destroy they also destroy a huge part of the immune system.
The blue scorpion drug is supposed to help the immune system destroy the cancerous cells, leaving the healthy cells intact (which is what chemo and radio do not as they cannot target only the cancerous cells). _________________
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Bellator Prince
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 741 Location: Provence
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, do not write off Cuba. When I went there as a young man, it was paradise. The wonderful people, the wonderful climate, the MUSIC, which has only recently been discovered by the rest of the world thanks to Wim Wenders. One of these days, I've got to go back...
P.S. Tenebra, there was something in the Globe and Mail today (Toronto newspaper), saying that chemo is not the best therapy for breast cancer. _________________
Nothing is more futile than the memory of a temptation resisted
ubi bene ibi patria |
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Michelle Moistened Bint
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10232 Location: At my desk
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A Shrubbery Prince
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 1861 Location: Pacific NW
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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And when you fly AirCuba request the non-livestock section. At the very least, insist on being 20 feet from any goat. _________________ A Shrubbery for Prez. Let's put more bushes in the whitehouse.
KWSN - A Shrubbery
Shrubbing since 2000 for the KaNI!ghts. |
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KWSN Sir CADCAM hoser
Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 7498 Location: South of Nunavuut
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm back.
Cubana Airlines were great. We flew on an Airbus A-320. Great seat room. Cooked in-flight meals, free wine, free headsets, movie on the way home was "Last Holiday" with Queen Latifah.
Temperature most days in the high 80's.
Had 2 rain showers in 14 days (total of maybe 25 minutes).
Thanks to our host, Professor Alfonso (don't call me Alf) DelRosario Ruiz, we had a great time and actually managed to finish the task of re-wiring, re-certifying and re-configuring 2,123 network connections on 27 network segments with Netopia switches and routers (from The Netherlands, NOT the USA).
Will try to post a few pics later, but they would not allow photography anywhere on the university campus and you don't try to argue the point with 3 guys in fatigues carrying Kalashnikovs. _________________ KWSN Sir CADCAM of the Wooden Rabbit
"Semper In Excrementa" "Hominem Iniocosum Non Diffidite"
"Cîam en des sterko" "Havi ne malesperi personoj kiu havi ne kompreno humuro"
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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Sir CC, I sure am glad you're back in one piece. I was afraid Fidel would keep you there, since you are such a nice person. _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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mohrorless Mail Order Goat Bride
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Welcome back!
No pictures of a campus? Wow, scary stuff. But I am sure Fidel was right when he called the place a "People's Paradice". _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
Keeper of the Unending keg of PGGBs
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Bellator Prince
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 741 Location: Provence
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: |
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And now that you are back, I wish you for 2007
salud y pesetas y muchas mujeres para gustarlas! _________________
Nothing is more futile than the memory of a temptation resisted
ubi bene ibi patria |
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Michelle Moistened Bint
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10232 Location: At my desk
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BmfCb Prince
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 1422 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Bellator wrote: | And now that you are back, I wish you for 2007
salud y pesetas y muchas mujeres para gustarlas! |
health and pesetas and many women to please them! (Long live Babelfish)
Welcome back, Sir CC! _________________ A shrubbery is a joy forever
To boinc or not to boinc, that's the question
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