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I was harassing Liz with my camera the other night and grabbed some fun shots of her hands while she finished up surfing before being my victim–er, model–for a portrait assignment on a DSLR technique group I’ve joined on Flickr. (Since it’s hard […]

We’ve had a hard time getting out to see movies lately, but we’ve been making up for it by making heavy use of the library’s online reservation system. All it takes is knowing what you eventually want to see, and a little patience, and suddenly you’re inundated in cinematic goodness. Recently:
Elizabeth I, starring […]

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So my cats may be supermodels, but looking at my recent posts, I think it’s also a sign that I need to get out and shoot photos of something that isn’t one of my furry little wonders.

Mood:artistic
Music:Sigur Rós - “Sæglópur”

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The weather turned suddenly and unexpectedly sunny today. I noticed the pattern of light on the kitchen floor as I was doing some housework and raced off to get the camera. Luckily, I got back downstairs in time to intercept Julia as […]

Well, my goals have had some changes over the last month. I’m only turning in 2 papers this term since I can’t get my hands on anyone to interview for the fortified paper. The writing and working out I haven’t done much on. The studying is ramping up, though I need to […]

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Our cats have so completely taken over my desk chair that they are collapsing into one another into a sort of feline snuggle singularity, an adorable two-headed mass of sleeping fur so dense that only cuteness can escape. This makes it somewhat difficult […]

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You said it, kiddo.
I’m beat. Time for sleep.
(You may now begin the obligatory caption contest…)

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Many, many photos from PyCon are now online. I shot a bunch as did fellow ClePy member Dave Noyes. And thanks to the photo contest (which still doesn’t have a winner, grr…), there are a whole bunch of other photos too. […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, Ralph Heimburger presented an overview of ReportLab, which makes programmatic generation of PDF’s wicked easy, and Matt Gibberman gave us an introduction to Paramiko, which brings ssh2 into your Python toolkit. Both look like really great libraries, and I look forward to tinkering with them at some point.
We hope to […]

I’ve heard that the measure of a party’s excellence is how much one hurts the next day. By this metric, I have officially had the best birthday party ever. We wound down around four this morning, and I’ve just rolled out of bed to assess the situation, begin the first round of Advil, […]