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.”

Rewriting a good chunk of the core smarts of up2date
on a “what if” whim to see if I can make it faster.

And listening to Voivod really loudly.

No trivia last night.

But thats okay, Battles played
instead.

And Battles are, to say the least, excellent. Extremely
good. Totally freaking bad ass. Rad like helltrack.
Veritable gods of math rock.

It was a good show. I like the math rock.

The weird thing was, I don’t think I recognized
but maybe one or two non-employees at the entire
show, but it was still a good crowd. Apparently
there is a secret raleigh mathrock crowd that
only comes out for shows featuring members of
Don Caballero.

Music was mathy, intricate, complicated, multi-layered,
syncopated, spastic, polyrhythmic, and heavy. All of which I like.
Sort of somewhere between Don Cabellero and Drums&Tuba
but more intricate than either (or both combined, for
that matter).

Three guitarists, all using loopers of some sort (
two edps, one dl4, and a laptop that seemed to be running
some sort of software looper).

And the drummer setup at the front of the stage. With
his crash symbol mounted about 7 ft in the air so he
could barely reach it.

Lots of wacky spastic polyrhythmic head bobbing going on.