Sausage on the brain.
Mandlebraut: Rendering Sausages.
These are the ideas I get when I'm coding and thinking about food.
Pep Turds
I've finally been given the "gift of time" to work on the processing module PEP - when I was reviewing the text template, I ran across this:
- Leave the little Emacs turd at the end of this file alone,
including the formfeed character ("^L", or \f).
I should really switch to a turd-friendly editor. I think VIM or Textmate are scatologically disinclined.
The T in IT: Mr. T endorses Hitachi Gear
Before I give the links to the videos, I want to give the typical disclaimer:
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions, views, discussions, etc. Content published here is not read or approved in advance by HDS, my wife or anyone else for that matter and does not - in any way - reflect the views and opinions, positions/etc of my employer. This is my personal, largely python-related blog. Not my employers.
That being said: A few months ago, I discovered (much by accident) that HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) has started a viral marketing compaign involving Mr. T - yes, the man from the A-Team (whose face graced my lunchbox as a child). Note that massive "lulz" were attained when watching these.
Without passing judgement or in any way stating a direct opinion, here are the videos, in order of creation:
For additional amusement, I will direct you to the Archivas (before we were bought by HDS) viral/spoof/etc video that made it to youtube, here.
10 Great Tips on How Not to Be the Obnoxious Newcomer in Your Workplace
10 Great Tips on How Not to Be the Obnoxious Newcomer in Your New Workplace: "You've just joined a new company and are all fired up to change things—stat. While your enthusiasm is commendable, you might want to proceed slowly at first. It's too easy for your helpful (and very possibly dead-on) observations and suggestions to be seen as criticisms and demands."
My question: Can they do a followup, "how not to be the embittered cynical old coot" or "How not to eyeball new technology with dismay, distrust and a long stories about how "you used to have declare variables in the constructor back in the days and you loved it""?
(Via digg.)
Zing of the Day
(IronPython presentation, displaying accessing the CLR features in Python making windows and things in the UI)
Presenter (Microsoft Employee): "What's you're favorite color?"
People: "Blue Blue Purple Blue... etc"
Presenter: I'll use green
Person in back (paraphrased): "Typical Microsoft response to Customer requirements!"
Another Quote
Presenter (Microsoft employee): The reason we called this CLR is because we... Oh, I'm being taped aren't I? Uh, we used a certain search* engine and found all references of Python + CLR pointed to IronPython.
* GOOGLE.
Apple Inside, best switch Video - Ever.
I won't go into all of apple's new offerings that came out yesterday - if you missed them, then you have to have been in solitary confinement.
I am really excited about the intel laptop (macbook pro) - I'm underwhelmed by the name, but I am excited about the specs, and most of all, that if I can get my paws on one of them, I'll be able to probably compile a lot more Unix/BSD/Linux applications, and I think that long term, we'll see a rise in virtual machine support (and Wine support) for the platform.
As a Developer/QA person, I'm really quite happy with the transition. This might make getting more OS/X Python bindings and libraries into the core Python dist easier, and actually open quite a few doors.
Well, that and it has awesome specs, and will play World of Warcraft 100x better than my current box.
Meanwhile, I saw this switch video on gizmodo. I spit coffee.
Lord Jobs... RISE!
Live Panda Sex Feeds omg l@@k!
From the BBC:Satellites to monitor panda sex
Next thing up is LIVE WEBCAM CHATS with HOT HOT HOT PANDAS. This is pretty cool and all - Pandas are going extinct, and I guess it's fairly cool that we have satellite tech to be able to uh... Watch some... Hot... Panda Sex.
"Excuse me, Dr. Wang? It seems that Subjects 4455 and 9873 can only do it in the dark, and on saturday nights."
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