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PyCon Afterwards: Back in Boston [jackdied] Apr 02 2009, 00:11 EDT [updated Apr 02 2009, 14:12 EDT] [permalink] I've returned from PyCon. Short version: I killed. The raw data has yet to be munched but my talk about things you don't care about went over very, very well with people who do care about that kind of thing. The hall was standing room only (500+ people Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Mar 25 2009, 12:27 EDT [updated Mar 29 2009, 11:29 EDT] [permalink] Meat Madness [bobsalive] Mar 25 2009, 12:27 EDT A tournament of meats. Fantastic, but the author is obviously tro Full Text Geeky Stuff goes Over There [jackdied] Mar 24 2009, 23:12 EDT [updated Mar 25 2009, 00:17 EDT] [permalink] Irregular blogging for the next week while I'm doing deeply geeking stuff. bobsalive, teddied, and petedied will be holding down the fort here. If for some reason you want to read about Python (the programming language) things you don't care about, I'll Full Text Obama So Far [jackdied] Mar 24 2009, 21:43 EDT [updated Mar 25 2009, 07:42 EDT] [permalink] I haven't written much about Obama because it's only fair to give the guy some time to settle. The common wisdom about our new president hasn't settled yet either (maybe Bush's never did, he was sometimes described as a dunce and sometimes as an evil gen Full Text Circle as Appropriate [jackdied] Mar 24 2009, 01:16 EDT [updated Mar 24 2009, 01:22 EDT] [permalink] Bush was a good/bad president because he ran a $500 billion a year deficit to advance good/bad policies. Obama is a good/bad president because he is running a $1,000 billion a year deficit to advance good/bad policies. Bonus question: Bush was/wasn't s Full Text More on Seeing Watchmen [bobsalive] Mar 12 2009, 09:55 EDT [updated Mar 12 2009, 09:56 EDT] [permalink] The four of us saw Watchmen at the Cinemagic Theaters in Hooksett, NH, on an IMAX screen. This was pretty exciting, it had been a half dozen years or so since I'd seen an IMAX movie. Unfortunately, we didn't get there early enough. Walking in the th Full Text Winter Bowling: Sport League [jackdied] Mar 10 2009, 03:30 EDT [updated Mar 10 2009, 03:34 EDT] [permalink] 167, 187, 158. A good day. We're still on the longest pattern which is mighty boring but just to disprove I only post my good scores: last week was 210, 113, 110 (bunch O suck). What actually prompted me to post this week was an opponent's ringtone. R Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Mar 09 2009, 23:26 EDT [updated Mar 09 2009, 23:27 EDT] [permalink] Greek Grilled Cheese [jackdied] Mar 09 2009, 23:23 EDT No no, not the sandwich. This cheese you throw on the grill in blocks an Full Text We Watched the Watchmen [jackdied] Mar 09 2009, 23:02 EDT [updated Mar 11 2009, 19:20 EDT] [permalink] Watchmen (1986), the original graphic novel (comic book!) by Alan Moore, is in the fanboy canon. It's revered by Comic Book Guys everywhere, and rightly so: by "deconstructing" superheroes and treating them as real people with their own issues, Moore ch Full Text Quote of the Week [jackdied] Mar 09 2009, 11:42 EDT [updated Mar 09 2009, 11:43 EDT] [permalink] We think heaven on earth is a real possibility. There are resources enough to create it. And people are intelligent enough to advance it. Now all that remains is to market it. --Olivier Toscani, (media director of Benetton), Colors #12 Seen at B Full Text BSG JFC [jackdied] Mar 06 2009, 22:10 EST [updated Mar 06 2009, 23:33 EST] [permalink] Two minutes into the 3rd-to-last episode [pen-penultimate?] of Battle Star Galactica and it was all exposition. It is a hoary fact of writing that when you have to have a character look at the camera and explain things you have failed. I only expect it Full Text RINOs are Conservitives Again, Too [jackdied] Mar 03 2009, 11:08 EST [updated Mar 03 2009, 11:41 EST] [permalink] Quoting Tocqueville is positively viral. Christopher Buckley, Obama backer and son of WFB, has caught the virus. He is shocked, SHOCKED, that Obama is a big spending statist. One thing is certain, however: Government is getting bigger and will stay b Full Text Republicans are Convervatives again [jackdied] Mar 01 2009, 12:20 EST [updated Mar 01 2009, 12:22 EST] [permalink] The Weekly Standard published a piece that consists entirely of excerpts from Tocqueville. This is a big change from their previous tone; every piece could have been subtitled "Sorry, but this is the best defense we could think of for Bush policy." I u Full Text Python Language Summit [jackdied] Mar 01 2009, 11:24 EST [permalink] I just got my invitation to the Python language summit. I had planned on going anyway, so the invitation just makes it less awkward for everyone involved. 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