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Since I was unable to attend the sprints, my PyCon experience wrapped up on Sunday. Here are my highlights and thoughts on the third day…
Robert M. Lefkowitz (r0ml), the fourth and final keynote speaker for PyCon 2007, completely and utterly amazed me. As the talk began, I thought we were in for 90 […]

Some quick thoughts and notes on Saturday at PyCon that turned into not-so-quick notes as I started writing them…
I was initially excited that Adele Goldberg was giving the day’s first keynote (I’m a bit of a PARC fanboy, really enjoyed Dealers of Lightning), but sorely disappointed that an hour of hearing a lot about the […]

After escaping from the madness of the office, we had a pleasantly uneventful flight to Dallas, notable only in that it was coworker Dave Noyes’ first time on an airplane. I enjoyed watching his reactions to things that had become completely natural and unremarkable to me, and I smiled a little inside remembering what […]

Mildly incensed by a recent burp of stupidity from my home town, I sent this letter to the superintendent of the Durango school district and to the editor of the local newspaper:

I grew up in Durango and attended its excellent public schools from kindergarten through graduation from DHS in 1995.

It was with great embarrassment and […]

Happy belated Chinese New Year! And to make it a better year, it’s the year of the Golden Pig!
In the news last night they had a story about the baby boom going on right for the next year in China. Babies born during the year of the Golden Pig are blessed with good […]

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Julia has a stupid new trick way to eat (see photo).
On the weather front, it took me about two hours to get home last night; I had two-inch thick chunks of ice that developed on my wiper blades, which made the last half hour […]

Case is closed tomorrow? Is that allowed? They never close. What’s going on?
The link for those interested.

Mood: shocked

Just got my grade on my global warming paper, I passed with distinction. So I guess this means I know something about the impact of global warming on the wine business.
One paper passed, two more written, fourth one needs to be finished. If anyone has contacts in the sherry, port or maderia biz […]

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Saturday started off a lot lazier than expected, and since there were no immediate plans, I spent a while shooting photos of Julia and Valentine soaking up the sun in our bay window. I’m quite pleased with the results, and the right side […]

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What do you suppose this switch does?