Shane discovered a rather beautiful and talented lady this evening. He pulled her over to our table at the cafe (she'd just been walking by, he does have a bit of a gift). After that Alex (a friend of Shane's and someone Rose knows) dropped in, then Michelle and Lara, and finally Dan dropped in after Stacey [SP corrected] left.
Very pleasant evening, half the people there I'd never met before. All people of good will, earnest and thoughtful. Everyone at the table had at least a passing interest in string theory! 3 or 4 (depending on whether you can count me) were designers/artists. 2 were from Lithuania (they met this evening, by chance). 2 had lived in a particular tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere (again, meeting this evening for the first time). 2 or 3 of us had a serious interest in information theory... we even had a short debate about design theory at one point. To top it all off, there was a puppy that I got to pat (well, actually, I patted the dog, the puppy was too skittish to come near the dog, but a dog is just a puppy in grown up clothes).
All in all, the kind of evening that makes life enjoyable.
Shane really is very good at being a social "hub". The number of people he introduces to one another is kind of daunting. He's so good at maintaining relationships... he puts so much effort into being a good friend... inspiring.
Comments
2010-07-25 14:02
> and would have no Trac integ ration The trac-bzr plugin[ 1] seems to provide good integ ration between bzr and t [...]
2010-07-13 21:47
I've always been fascinated wi th the Asterisk AMI interface. So much so that I married tha t fascination with the [...]
2010-07-03 21:32
Yes, only references in dicti onaries are replaced, so hold ing references in lists, tuple s, etceteras keeps them alive.
2010-07-03 11:18
They hold references to remove and install?
2010-06-24 08:34
There's higher-level objects w hich are tracking what is repl aced (the actual Mock objects) . They hold references [...]
2010-06-24 08:23
I haven't tried it, but it see ms to me like this approach ha s one fundamental problem: If you replace all refs o [...]
2010-06-24 08:22
That's the "magic" that made m e go "ooh shiny"
2010-06-24 06:03
That's even more evil than the mock patch decorator...
2010-06-06 18:33
blush Oh.
2010-06-06 11:07
That's what the module does (a utomatically), but on a per-te st-run basis, and only for the process being tested (i [...]
2010-06-06 02:43
Maybe I'm missing something im portant here, but why not just write small scripts to mimic whatever dangerous utili [...]
2010-06-05 15:17
I thought about stubbing out t he python call to the process in the current process, but I want something which stu [...]
2010-06-05 14:47
Hmm... if Mock isn't flexibl e enough to handle mocking pro cesses adequately then I'd lik e to know how it could b [...]
2010-05-19 10:27
Hey, maybe it's a stupid new bie question, but where and ho w exactly should the patching of the core take place? [...]
2010-05-04 14:36
I used Qemu and VirtualBox pre tty extensively back when I wa s working for the OLPC, but mo st of the stuff we were [...]