It's been a long week this week at OSCON, and I haven't been blogging much here, mainly because I was asked to write about my OSCON experiences for the O'Reilly Network of blogs. So there's a couple entries there, on specific topics from this past week.
It was a long, interesting, week, though. I had a great time doing lots of things.... got to see some people that I really only get to see once or twice a year at various conferences... got to meet some people I hadn't met before.
Some of the highlights, outside the normal sessions:
- Wrath of Khan was great. There was about 30 people there.. of that 30, only about "2" were actally like die-hard Trek fans that were trying (in vain) to insist upon a pristine viewing of the flick. The rest of the audience was extremely content to MST3K the movie to the fullest extent. For myself, I was amazed at the number of places you can insert the line "Mother-fucker!" as if it were uttered by a character on screen and have it actually seem like it should actually be part of the script. Jeremy says I may have been wrong on one or two occasions, but the rest all seemed pretty normal.
- Got to meet a lot of people at the O'Reilly shindig Thursday evening. Very amusing was spending an hour or so on the balcony with Tilly and Allison, while Tilly tried to comb his vast knowledge of really really bad jokes in our presence. Apparently, the party really got interesting after Jeremy, James, and I left. (The old ActiveState parties used to end when the police came... this one ended when the medics showed up)... I'm just glad (very glad) that everyone was OK in the end and just had to sleep it off).
- Brian Aker's talk on his exploits with Asterisk in his home phone environment was probably the most enjoyable of the week, and I'm looking forward to potentially playing around with it when I move in with D (because I can screw my phone line up all I want without affecting hers *grin)
- I was a really good kid on my annual Powell's visit, and only came out with three books.
There's people I miss, though ... I haven't seen Jon Orwant in four years now. (Come back, Jon, we miss you! *grin* Maybe if you throw another coffee mug against a wall, Arthur Dent style, we can get a release of Perl 6)
It's a long flight back home tomorrow. Luckily the week has exhausted me enough that I'll fall asleep early this evening, so I can get up early for my flight.