Just in case yesterday's photo made any of you wonder if I moved into a frat house, I must quickly counteract! By showing off our wine rack, containing carefully chosen wines from only the finest locations across the globe, thus expressing the owner's outstanding maturity and exceptional sophistication....
... ha! Seriously, I am just pulling your leg. Sometimes a wine rack is just a wine rack.
My home office (affectionately nicknamed the "man cave") of course has to sport some art work that does its nickname justice -- like this! I am quite fond of metal plates, so I was happy when we found this one at a bookstore in Mountain View a few months ago.
Did I mention Girl Scouts Cookies are excellent? Sure, I won't touch the mint ones, but the Trefoils are most likely my favorite American-made cookies. OMNOMNOMNOMNOM, as the cookie monster would say.
Thanks, Jenny, for the express delivery!!
Twitter's fail whale has a little friend, a fail robot. Not sure how the two relate to each other, but it seems the whale comes out when twitter struggles under the sheer load of tweets, while the fail robot denotes service errors not caused by load?
Now, evil tongues would claim that there's so much fail at Twitter that a single fail pet just doesn't do it justice... But, knowing how challenging it is to scale a service to millions of users, I wouldn't quite dare to say so -- and therefore, I welcome the poor injured robot to my fail pet collection. Quick! To the fail pet emergency room!
Thanks to jabba for taking a screenshot for me!
Our Firefox costume can look a little lost and headless in between parties. But I am sure it'll be back on track for the Firefox 4 festivities!
I am by no means what people would call a Mac "Fanboy". For example, when the iPad2 was announced, I didn't even know an Apple event was going on, even though a lot of people in the office watched the livestream online, as I found out later...
However, today I got my new work laptop and I must say, there's little in the electronics world that is so fun to unpack and start up as a new Mac. Additionally, even though I decided not to do a "migration" this time for fear of copying too much useless cruft over to the new machine, I had my entire development environment up and running within a few hours. I am helped by such nice things as the fact that you can just plug two Macs together with a network cable, and they'll figure out a network between each other, making copying (even several gigabytes of) files over ridiculously easy.
Now back to work. What were we doing again? Ah, that's right, shipping Firefox 4 and friends!
This is a photo out of American Airlines' McDonnell Douglas MD-80 safety instructions. Besides the photo looking like it was taken in the 70s: Is this a scene from a Stephen King movie?
I mean, look at it. Estranged wife Alice here, evidently just pushed her husband Bob out of an airplane in an attempt to secure the house and cash in on the life insurance policy. To her dismay, there happened to be an evacuation slide where she thought stairs were awaiting. Bob, completely oblivious to this vicious ploy against him, just decides to enjoy the ride. Woah, a slide! It is grey or yellow in color! Wheeeeeeeee!
Today was the last day of (the conference part of) PyCon 2011. Besides a few more talks (all of which have been recorded and are available online!), there was a poster session where various projects showed off their efforts. Like a science fair, except for geeks (wait, science fairs are already for geeks)...!
(It seems, back when most cameras sucked, one would get pictures with light leaked in, and/or instant film borders by necessity. Now that better technology has made this a thing of the past, people like me use software to put such quality flaws back into the picture. The irony is not lost on me.)
Say hi to Atlanta's Finest: These motorcycle cops were getting ready to keep the surroundings of tonight's Kentucky -- Alabama game safe. (It took me a little bit of research to find out what game exactly this was, even though the Kentucky part wasn't hard to guess given the abundance of people in blue UK gear all over downtown Atlanta).
These cops later dispersed as quickly as they had assembled, leaving behind only a single, fellow policeman on a different set of two-wheeler: A Segway.
The Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, where PyCon is, has a huge atrium, and all the hotel rooms are on the galleries along the edges. It's all concrete and therefore looks a lot like 70s (or so) futuristic architecture (the transparent, but lit up elevators do an additional job at enforcing this impression). Besides that, it also reminds a lot of Star Wars' Galactic Senate, with hundreds of senators each in their own floating "VIP booth".
