Olympic mishap
Three comments: Why did they have a team of people ready to run out with visual shields to block the stage? Are horrifying injuries so expected that they plan how to hide them quickly? Who decided to...
View ArticleWhat Django can learn from Zope
Mark Ramm makes a lot of interesting points about Django in this talk. Really good stuff.
View ArticleI really like The Knife
Random thoughts: Why does Sweden have so many bands that appeal to me? This song makes me think about Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush and separately a bunch of 1980s new wave bands. I’m sure all the...
View ArticleFunny blog
The Houston Chronicle is doing something that I haven’t seen any other paper do — it hosts blogs and photos for its readers, and it draws links to those blogs from the front page. Anyhow, I like this...
View ArticleWhich one of you did this?
A two-year old elephant in the Houston Zoo died of the herpes virus. We’ll all know who you are soon — you can’t hide your cold sores forever.
View ArticleNeed help with data files and setup.py
I’m working on a package that includes some files that are meant to be copied and edited by people using the package. My project is named “pitz” and it is a bugtracker. Instead of using a config file...
View ArticleToday is day two of the Strong Lifts program
I found about this stronglifts program after reading the FAQ on reddit.com/r/fitness. Today’s workout: ran for two miles on the treadmill 5x5x95 squats 5x5x95 bench press 5x5x90 dumbbell rows I know...
View ArticleFirst episode of the next season of Mad Men plot summary
I just watched the first episode from the next season of Mad Men. Peggy and her beatnik friends score a bunch of LSD and they stay up for three days doing art. Peggy keeps sketching pictures of a...
View ArticlePython: log uncaught exceptions with sys.excepthook
You ever notice how when your script dies because of some uncaught error, you don’t get that error in your log files? This post walks through how to make sure that you log that uncaught exception. This...
View Articlepython: allow only one running instance of a script
UPDATE: Thanks so much for all the feedback! I’m going to look at using flock as well, and I’ll write that up soon. Imagine you have a script that archives a bunch of data by copying it to another box....
View ArticleCustomize your psql terminal
Here’s the contents of my ~/.psqlrc file: -- Report time used for each query. timing -- Set a cute border around query results. pset border 2 -- Set pager to less, rather than more. setenv PAGER...
View ArticleAnnouncing carp!
Carp is for code templating. You know, for stuff like starting HTML files with a bunch of predefined javascript libraries, or for starting a new python project without having to write a setup.py file...
View ArticleCheck out the awesome logo for 216 Software, LLC!
Here it is If stuff goes according to plan, 2013 is going to be the year when this business really takes off.
View ArticleBackyard chickens in Ohio
My little flock of four birds got some attention in this article.
View ArticleWe need to make our conference presentations more accessible
When I say “more accessible” I mean any of these: useful for people with hearing / reading / seeing / cognitive / anything differences approachable for people at many different skill levels not...
View ArticleBarred rocks and a frosty morning
Filmed these last week weekend. You can hear my year-old daughter talking to them.
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