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O’Reilly should totally make board books.
Suggested titles:

The Very Hungry Regular Expression
Goodnight Ruby
The Ugly Duckling’s Guide to Perl
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You C++?
The Tale of Peter Python

Hmm. I could be on to something…

Mood:brilliant

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 […]

Just received the official notice that my PyCon presentation proposal was accepted! I plan on basking in the warm glow of non-rejection for a couple of days, and then commencing forthwith with the stressing out about getting it pulled together in time given all the other insanity of my life.
In other news, Liz and […]

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

Bloody hell, it’s been almost twelve days since I’ve posted any new photos from the Germany trip. Harrumph. I guess that’s what happens when I let myself get distracted by other things: houseguests, complete disassembly of the office/computer space to prep for painting, work, catching up with Tivo (I can’t believe I’ve […]

wxPython in
Action
Authors: Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn
Published: March 2006 by Manning
Publications Company
ISBN: 1-932394-62-1
620 pages
If, like me, you’ve been living under a rock (inasmuch as one can in the world of cross-platform GUI toolkits), you might not have heard much about wxPython. And if, like me, you were
excited by the idea of quickly […]

After far too much not-blogging, I think I’m hitting the point where the withdrawal is really starting to bug me, so I guess I’d better take care of that.
Work is fairly unmentionable; I pulled a few 12-hour days last week, which I should probably stop doing if I’m going to be the only one (as […]

Twisted Network Programming Essentials
Author: Abe Fettig
Published: October 2005 by O’Reilly
ISBN: 0-596-10032-9
236 pages
When Twisted started to explode onto the scene, I was really intrigued by its varied capabilities and asynchronous model, but I was turned off by the then-scant documentation and the webapp framework transition that was just beginning (Woven was deprecated and Nevow was […]

Liz and I manged to almost completely forget that MacHomer is playing this week at the Hanna Theatre. Luckily, we managed to remember in time to get tickets for this evening’s show, which played to a surprisingly packed audience. If you enjoy “The Simpsons” and have read or seen “the Scottish play” at […]

Well, I never saw this one coming: the Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible.

Mood:befuddled