Prerelease, PyCon, Plaza

2019-05-11T03:08:02Z

Last weekend, I was in Cleveland for PyCon, so Erica got to spend the weekend with grandparents. The conference was really good this year. I very much enjoyed talking to people at the Google booth in the expo hall. The keynotes were phenomenal. Russel Keith-Magee gave the opening keynote on Python's "black swans", a fascinating look at the future of Python, how strategic research and development might be supported in open-source, and the history of Perth, Australia. And on Saturday (unfortunately not posted, at least not yet) Shadeed Wallace-Stepter shared his life story as a reformed criminal turned Python programmer and entrepreneur, then Python luminary Jessica McKellar gave a talk about the intersection between the tech industry and community and criminal justice reform, describing her work with The Last Mile and urging the audience to "hire people with records".

We had Shabbat dinner with my family that Friday, and Anne and Isaac joined us as well (Dan was unfortunately out of town). Was very nice to catch up. I had a great dinner with my colleagues on Saturday, and went to the conference dinner at the Great Lakes Science Center on Sunday night.

We returned to town Monday. Erica must have had an exciting weekend because she slept on the plane, took another nap at daycare Monday afternoon, then fell asleep on her own at about 8:30. Though after that she was back to her usual schedule of never going to bed.

Not much else going on.

We got in a little Ingress on Wednesday evening in Quincy Center. Been a while since I was down there, the new Quincy Center plaza is gorgeous. We're going to the Ingress Anomaly in Chicago in two weeks, which hopefully will be fun.

And I've been playing a bit of Magic. The prerelease tournament for the new Magic set, War of the Spark, was two weekends ago, and after a slow draw in the first match, I was just barely able to squeak by with a winning record overall. Thinking the office tournament for the set will be fun, too.

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Ten Years Out

2018-05-20T02:44:31Z

I graduated from Olin ten years ago yesterday, so I've had my current job for a decade as of today. It's been a good ten years.

Last weekend, we went to PyCon, which is in Cleveland this year (and next). So Eris got to spend some quality time with my parents. Was a good conference. And downtown Cleveland is strikingly nicer than it was a few years ago.

Julie continues to be busy. Had another solo night with the kid last week, and another coming up Monday.

This weekend is fairly relaxing, though. Julie and I both got in some good cooking. The farmers markets have started up again, and I went to both the Kendall Center Farmers Market (next to my work) and the Union Square Farmers Market (next to my house) this week.

Eristic improvements: Reciting entire picture-books, recounting events from her day.

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Sam's L33t Journal

Prerelease, PyCon, Plaza

Ten Years Out