Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Career Math... Eric Sink makes his English teacher proud once again with "Career Calculus." I would like the stats on how many PDC attendees were sponsored by their company. The same goes for OSCON, which came in at roughly half the cost--give some tracks, take some early bird and user group discounts. I'd love to quip "Or, 'Fuzzy math for those who don't get the brutal reality of capitalism'", but I'm not that harsh, just in a very grumpyable mood the last few days, and another reminder of my own cyclical imbalance of doing and learning. I welcome dissapation of said knowlege. For when we've understood the need to teach ourselves, we'll realize the necessity of educating others. [pro-actively, not reactively, drivel, dravel, sputter, spout....] 11:46:27 PM    , comment [] Alien Abductions: Coming from inside your planet! Chris pointed me to how to STOP ALIEN ABDUCTIONS (via BoingBoing.net). My response: $35??  Yeah, I think you could pre-build these and conspire to make some money. I just got this book, "Hollow Earth" ($5 B&N clearance rack) and my first lendee wanted to slap him for circular justification. (I told her there's a hole in that logic...) Check it out, enjoy. Update: Chris's take, and follow-up. Note to self: Never, under any circumstance, affix chin strap under any chin higher than 1. I'll leave you with Jim Sheppeck II's Runner-Up entry in the 2003 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: "'Theeeey're here!' whispered Billy Joe under his foul breath through yellowed teeth as brilliant white light permeated all of the windows of his trailer, and he flashed back to fragmented recollections of the previous four abductions--the questions, the pain, the probe--which he was powerless to stop but this time was better prepared for, having just finished a seventh bean burrito, a case of Bud, and four packs of Pop Rocks." 11:30:43 PM    , comment [] Wrap it up and Brand it The Python Marketing list is a flurry over what a new tag-line and logo should be. I skipped a good chunk of posts, but what I gather... Graphic Arts is a precision sport Snakes tend to conjur cultic to childish images (scary combo, eh?) Comedy Troops, altough linguistically agile and global, carry a few too many other association and mind-share gaps. ("A few too many?!" An undefinable assortment.) Avoid infinity, spiral and snake-eats-tail symbols soley on redundancy..otherwise you'll get into odd association discussions. Expect brutal honesty when it comes to anything aesthetic.  This brings me back the first item. I sure hope the logo entries are collected and archived somewhere, as a snake peering from beneath a brain representing a tree, and this city-scape made me want a collage of them for wallpaper.  I'd add in Twisted's layered logo. The first round of these kinds of discussions, regarding a Python.org redesign, was quickly scuttled off into it's specific mailing list. 11:15:10 PM    , comment [] Host-Hopping Scripts in Python Linux Journal has a new HOW-TO article "Host Hopping Scripts in Python". Covers PyExpect.  Ever notice that when people explain "Why Python", they usually end up on something frankly personal, like Mark Nielson's "I love Python."     10:41:53 PM    , comment []

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