I occasionally give guitar lessons, and certainly I talk to people at various stages of ‘guitarmanship’. My younger brothers both play guitar, as does my father, my uncle, 3 of my cousins, and probably some others I’m forgetting. Of these, I think I’m the only person who even *tries* to play *solos* note-for-note – meaning…
Category: Me stuff
Going to OSCON
I’m off to Portland, Oregon next week for O’Reilly OSCON 2006. There’s so much stuff going on at that conference that I’m not even sure which sessions, tutorials, and BOFs I’ll be attending. I’m doing a bit of work with Python lately, but I’m also doing database design, LDAP, PHP coding, Perl, playing with cfengine,…
Freakin’ HOT
I keep telling my wife that if a whole bunch of tech companies decided to set up shop in, say, Baton Rouge, I’d go in a heartbeat (NOTE: I spent a few years in BR, and it left an indelible impression on my being, but that’s another whole collection of posts). Generally, she replies with…
House Painting, and Mother’s Day
So the goal was this: get my house painted in time for my mom’s visit for Mother’s Day weekend. I scheduled the painting so that they would start a little over a week before Mom’s arrival, because it was supposed to be a 3-day job, and I wanted to allow for bad weather and stuff….
My New Personal Analog Assistant
So I have a buddy who is a gadget geek. He got a Sony Clie when they arrived on the scene, he has an iPod or two (or three maybe), one of which does photos. His Clie takes pictures. He got one of the new latest cameras that fit in your pocket and is 5…
My First Sudoku Puzzle
I have a Sudoku game on my Linux workstation at home, and I just finished my first sudoku puzzle. I’m not sure I really see the addiction, but maybe I’ll revisit that in a few weeks. I solved puzzle #36 in GNOME Sudoku in 26 minutes and 24 seconds. I have no idea if that’s…
All of my jobs
Over dinner last weekend, my neighbor pointed out to me that he’s pretty sure I’ve had more jobs than anyone else on the planet, or something to that affect. I’ve heard that before, but the emphatic words of my neighbor inspired me to list all of the jobs I can remember having. Here goes nothin’……
Just back from Cancun
I just returned from my honeymoon in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Natasha and I got to practice our Spanish a lot, we swam with dolphins, rode horses, and did a whole lot of relaxing on beaches, at bars, and at pools all over the area. You can see pictures here. I remembered a lot more…
New Jersey: A Total Waste of My Money
I just found this article about how New Jersey is voting on new slogans. They accepted 7800 suggestions, and apparently had the Church Lady Brigade trim the suggestions down to five that we can now vote on. They all suck, but that’s not why I’m pissed. I’m pissed because, as it turns out, they paid…
Just received a copy of my book
Man, this is *cool*!!! I just received the “first printing” of the book, which is due out in bookstores in a week or two or something like that. I’m actually really happy because during the authoring/editing process I didn’t get a chance to read Bill von Hagen’s hacks in any great detail, and he wrote…