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There’s a lot of excitement on the ClePy mailing list about trying to bring PyCon to Cleveland in 2010. David Stanek is leading the charge, getting folks talking, and planning, and motivated.
Clevelanders who want to help out bringing Python’s premier conference to our fair city should head on over to the bid page on […]

Musical Furnishings - drum tables
Heck yes! I wonder how obscenely expensive these are?
(tags: furniture design music instruments)

Tasty Post
A possible alternative to del,icio.us’s not-super-great automated daily blog posting.
(tags: del.icio.us perl hacks livejournal)

11:49 PM. From down the hall, an ominous THUMP…. THUMP…. THUMP… The sound of Claire kicking her legs against the mattress like some kind of imprisoned mermaid.

Me: Drums… Drums in the deep…
Liz: You know, that’s what I think every time she does that.
Me: Damn, I love you.

Stairway Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
The security line at O’Hare was almost non-existent, so now I’ve got a bit of time to kill and (since “free wireless network” doesn’t seem to want to give me any DNS) have the laptop open, it’s probably time to digest and process my PyCon […]

You Don’t Say Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
March 1 was strangely mild; I laughed derisively when the weather lady declared that it was “coming in like a lamb” for once. Silly, silly woman. As a recent fortune cookie told me, “the lion, when hunting, does […]

I might be old, but dammit, I ROCK!
Yes, I just completed the solo guitar tour on Rock Band, and even though I was only playing on medium, it feels pretty freaking awesome. My wife (goddess!) sprung for an Xbox 360, and my mother-in-law (what a sweetie) sent me Rock Band, and I’ve basically been […]

I’ve discovered that Claire responds really, really well to “The Ballad of Serenity” as a lullaby. (That’s the theme song from Firefly in case you didn’t recognize the title.) I’ll sing it softly to her at bedtime or naptime as I hold her and then transfer her to the crib, repeating it as necessary until […]