After the show, dropped by badger‘s place. Had two people
comment very positively about the online doodle gallery almost as soon as I
arrived, which was quite pleasant to hear. I appreciate it.

Aside from that, much music and computer and computer music
geeking.

Got back into town just in time to go to the art open house (arrived from
D.C into raleigh about 20 minutes before it started).

Wasn’t sure what to expect. There was a much larger turn out than I
expected by a factor of 5 or so.

However, aside from a few employees, there weren’t any people
there that I actually knew. I don’t exactly know the raleigh
area art scenesters I suppose.

I didn’t exactly hover around my stuff, but from what I could
from the occasional pass by, it didn’t really seem to catch
anyones interest. Oh well.

Spent the last 2 1/2 days at Pycon,
a conference for users and developers of the python programming language.
I feel much dumber now.

Tonight: 7-9pm at Raleigh’s Red Hat office
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh, NC
Directions

Some of my doodles will
be on display, among artwork by another dozen or so artists.

If your in the area, drop by. My stuff is on the 3rd, engineering side,
near the elevators.

It’s open to anyone, so come on by.

[Gimp-developer] The Mark Shuttleworth offer

Cool. Mark
Shuttleworth is putting up a good chunk of cash to help kick
in the next stage of gimp-devel.

RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them

So, being a natural skeptic, I had to try this out. I tried it out at
badgers party saturday night in his microwave without
any flames or explosions. The bill didn’t even get warm. Tried it
out in the home microwave as well, with a couple different bills
without any problems.

And thats with the new 20’s that supposedly show the problem. Granted,
a small sample, but I figured I had to at least try it myself.

Close inspection with an xacto knife doesn’t find anything that
looks like an rfid to me, but then, I’m not exactly sure what to
look for. But all I seemed to find was paper and ink.

And on an unrelated note: “If I had a rocket launcher,
I’d make somebody pay.”