October 2010
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
– Marie Curie
Aardman animators are magic
Stephen and I have been watching “Shaun the Sheep” a lot lately. HEART. A lot. Recommended.
September 2010
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August 2010
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The mayor of Portland, OR is following me
The Open Government gang sign
I’m going to pretend that I mean he’s been tailing me ever since I left OSCON 2010.
In all seriousness, I think that this is objectively AWESOME and if my town even had a mayor I’d want her or him to follow the heck out of me. Open Government, FTW!
On a related note, these are good people and I’m looking forward to contributing in the...
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“… I continue to introduce ( ): in the function def as almost like an...”
– Kirby Urner (by way of the Python Edu-SIG mailing list)
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my talky talk from PyOhio 2010
For those of you who weren’t privileged enough to be in Columbus, OH on a Saturday morning watching me stumble over my words, here it is:
PyOhio 2010 Intro to Core Involvement
July 2010
5 posts
“I have a bit of a funny accent, so if you can’t understand me, just wave...”
– Laura Thompson of Mozilla Corporation in http://bit.ly/ak61qe
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“It looks like you’re trying to build a framework!”
– YAGNI, the programmer’s equivalent of Clippy
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I gots an F in popularity
where F ==
June 2010
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my lady was asked to type "flubbing huge"
by a reCAPTCHA while signing up for a Twitter account. I now officially love reCAPTCHA that much more. Immediately following this event, my lady says,
Now what do I do?
to which she answered herself with
What else? Follow Conan O’Brien
I love my wife. Lots.
This is from the first row of image results for flubbing huge:
make money
make: *** No rule to make target `money'. Stop.
It’s not that I don’t have enough money. I live a very privileged life in this here fattest state of the fattest nation in the world.
I just don’t trust myself to do simple arithmetic — specifically for balancing my checkbook.
fancy at first
My first solution used Python’s
decimal library and did the trick just fine. ...
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is #bikecommuting the heck out of this Friday...
My 2002 Bianchi Volpe is still serving me well. Thank you, nation of Italy, for insisting on making high-quality bicycles.
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“sometimes I have to step away for the screen for awhile to write code...”
– ginatrapani
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“Restructured text rules. Use it!”
– mcrute
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“Aw, I don’t mind one-player mode. I usually just TIGER, TIGER, TIGER the...”
– third-hand via coworker
hooray for bikes! hooray for walkies! →
truncated work weeks deserve epic tuesdays
…which is why I’m starting mine with some very much epic John Adams a la Harmonielehre. There’s something very focusing about
“…the rapid repetition of chords in E minor in standard minimalist fashion.”
May 2010
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my son likes trucks and I blame megafauna
Motorcycles, trains and airplanes, too … loud machines … you get it.
I started noticing when he was super little. His mostly-immobile head would turn just a bit when the school bus drove past in the morning. He would do the same for distant trains. He still does it.
I have to think there’s an evolutionary advantage to this. My wife and I have talked about this a decent...
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another go at it
Wordpress got old real quick-like. I never got around to setting up Pyblosxom. Folks I trust use tumblr. Here goes:
Not that I’m really expecting anybody to read this, but I thought it might be time to give the blogging thing another shot, not least so that I can record the amazing daily events being produced by my wife and child. To be sure, it is an adventure. That is all.