dx �note how i have perfect mobile data reception here, underground, in buenos aires, unlike certain "first world" cities
i'm in and no idea what to do in a tech conference if there are no friends to cuddle
i just learnt that falabella, a clothing shop chain, closed all the clothing shops at some point and became a fintech/bank??? what the hell
big hall 20% full, almost no one is wearing masks, 2300ppm 25 mins into the first talk
ooh co2 actually went down, 787 now, and temp is a bit lower too, i guess they enabled air conditioning
yeah i'm more interested in co2 levels than this talk about fintech
cute, next talk is in english but you can borrow a headset to hear it translated live
four speakers, the argentinian guy has the hardest to understand english accent
i'm really sorry if i sound like this when speaking irl. i'm trying my best to get rid of my voice and not say a word ever again.
oh my god the accenture VR thing has characters without legs and has super bland sports minigames is this the facebook thing???
lol some guy said "de que planeta venis?" ("what planet are you from?"), commenting about my fancy mask.
later i run into the same guy, who seems to be staff, and he tells others "guarda con esta chica que viene de marte" ("careful with this girl she's from mars")
i love this shit. that raw argentinian shamelessness and disrespect.
just bought a choripan for $800 from a foodtruck by scanning a qr code in the mercadopago app. this sort of thing would be cash only otherwise. the future
OH: "todo eso de crypto y metaverso me dan ganas de cagarlos a piñas. y entiendo que somos mercenarios los de sistemas pero hasta para nosotros, crypto y metaverso son cosas toxicas"
lmao the google translation for "cagarlos a piñas" ("fuck them up") is *perfect*. it still has the debuff of being english but that's it
the context is that three different companies have VR stuff in their stands, and some of those companies have nothing to do with VR it's just accountants who hire devs for pipelines and apis and boring shit like that
i think i'm spoiled by ccc organized events because (aside from there being a bunch of cute girls interested in cuddles) there's a lot more filtering of bigcorp presence
my general impression here is "sysarmy? this you? i thought you were working class. what happened"
but yeah an event like this only happens because of sponsors and it's not surprising that the sponsors end up being banks, accountants, and google. just. welp.
left the event, but i got around to hang out with the friend who invited me there, who is a volunteer for orga. that was nice. i got to see the backstage :3
also nice to see the other point of view: the event grew a lot, in people and in budget, while the orga team didn't change much, the thing still runs on spreadsheets
good meowing! today i'm flying to bariloche, a cute city in the south with mountains and maybe snow
learning that apparently you gotta book things ahead of time and like. "plan". weird concept
serious lesbian vibes with the bus driver, wearing flannel and having two girl names in pink written above the windshield. i like this place already
reached the hotel! it's cute
we're right next to a lake that's clearly not working properly because my sister got shocked by touching the window and turns out humidity is 28%
morning! today: going up cerro tronador! glaciers and stuff!
lunch break! i was gonna upload pics but the wifi isn't that good. but trust me it's pretty
hiiiii i'm back. remember when it was normal to not have an internet connection with you at all times? like 15 years ago? wild. how did i put up with that. no idea.
i remember having to prepare for a long roadtrip and being uncomfortable with the idea of such a long time away from technology, so i tried to convince the rich kid to lend me his portable cd player.
i didn't even have any music to listen, that was before i got into music. it wasn't a great plan
anyway uh yeah right. cerro tronador is called like that because it makes thundering noises when the ice from the glacier breaks off and falls. we were there for half an hour and it happened four times
back at the hotel, that was 9 hours, i'm hecking tired, will post stuff when i'm less tired
morning! today: circuito chico, which should be shorter
the thing of not having plans is working out great in the end: we walk into a tourism agency (there's one every 50 meters), we tell them something, we give them money, they arrange the rest, next day 9am we got something to do
this doesn't work for fancier activities like riding horses but i'll try to do that after bariloche somehow
the tour guide is the same guy as yesterday, didn't need to tell him my name, cute
circuito chico is indeed small (we're heading back to the city already) but still very cute
a lot of my photos are gonna be generic tourist photos because we get predefined stops in these tours but that's okay too
pizza here is thicker by default ("al molde"). thin pizza is called "a la piedra". also nearly every pizza has a fuckton of cheese
you may Additionally make your thick pizza thicker by getting a slice of fainá (standard italian: farinata) which is something you put under the pizza that looks like pizza bread but is made of chickpea flour
the sky is blue, the weather is nice, the trees are green, the flowers are pink, things couldn't be less spooky and orange
you can tell it's argentina because the cars outside have been going crazy with the horns for the last half hour because one of the big football teams won
they kept going for like one hour and a half total, i think it's over
nah we went outside and they are still going just not so loud
update: it's 10pm, they got a whole march going, with drums and other instruments??? these people are serious about sports. and this is a relatively small city! (100k pop + unknown number of tourists)
morning! i managed to sleep, despite Sports. today: cerro catedral, which should have snow still
the girl from the tourism agency was kind enough to let us know that packs for cerro catedral are not worth it, because there are no tour guides for it, just overpriced transport. so we're taking a normal bus, for about 180 ARS (0.63 USD)
for contrast:
- a "pack" for catedral we got offered was 3600 ARS (12 USD)
- taking a remis (~taxi) there costs 2000 ARS (7 USD)
- cerro tronador (the one that was 9 hours long) was 8700 ARS (30 USD)
- a "pack" for catedral we got offered was 3600 ARS (12 USD)
- taking a remis (~taxi) there costs 2000 ARS (7 USD)
- cerro tronador (the one that was 9 hours long) was 8700 ARS (30 USD)
