Weekend Geekery & a Lesson in "Bar Speak"

Alas not much weekend geekery this weekend.  Did update Ubuntu Natty (11.04) to Oscelot (11.10) !  I've always wanted my own Oscelot... annnnywaaaaay, haven't had a chance to play yet, did notice the login screen has had a facelift so I'm expecting it will be prettier.

Had zero luck with the 2hrs of LCA2012 badge hacking on Friday night but I was tired so I wasn't expecting much.  The rest of the weekend was spent working!  Killer deadlines this week.

Voted for the submissions for DrupalDownUnder2012 and purchased my Early Bird Ticket.  Really looking forward to seeing the schedule!

Sunday afternoon I did receive a lesson in "Bar Speak".  Two very important lessons in fact:

1. Apparently "there's one in the tap" translates to I've already paid for your next beer and it just needs to be poured.  
2. The more important lesson is you want the beer to stop flowing (i.e your pot magically being refilled every time you finish your beer) you need to lay your pot on it's side.  Laying your glass on it's side is an indication to the bar tender you done.  

I really wish they had of told me rule 2 that after the FIRST beer!  I said I only wanted 1 beer, 3 beers later.  :-(  My company found this incredibly amusing, I didn't zero productivity Sunday afternoon.

Geek Lessons last night!

With an increasingly busy work / life schedule, it's getting more and more difficult for O.G and myself to find the time to catch up and geek out.  Geek lessons didn't really commence until ~23:00 last night.  Which has done nothing for my beauty sleep, I feel like a barely warmed up zombie today!

Discussions last night started of with the pros and cons of white lined paper, demonstrations of the awesomeness that is my LiveScribe pen (I seriously couldn't survive my job without it!) then hitting the proverbial books!

Started with a few demonstrations of additional VIM features/shortcuts then it was time to get serious, conversation then went into discussing strings, variables and arrays, how they interact and pull from each other as well as the importance of formatting in Python.  >_<  I think print will be my bestfriend for a long time and will be very very useful.  I haven't really had much time to read up on Python yet so this rather unexpected lesson caught me off guard.

I understand that I could easily cheat with a debugging program, but I wanna do it myself!

Anyway I'm too tired to write much more now, I have instant coffee *ick* to drink, clients to call and work to do.~!

LCA2012 Name Badge Hacking, the saga continues...

I am absolutely sure that since I've started using Ubuntu, all I've done is install stuff, which I find incredibly odd since Ubuntu for all intents and purposes, is an over inflated "feature" packed OS full of pre-installed junk.  Why on earth am I spending so much time downloading things!!!

Tonight's glorious list of installed programs / packages;

• Aptitude installed - Check
• Python installed - Check
• Zookeeper installed - Check
• Git installed - Check
• Graphviz installed - Check
• VIM installed - Check
• SQLite installed - Check
• Gnucash installed - Check
• Gnupg installed - Check
• Screen installed - Check

• Editing of apt/source.list - Check
• LCA Zookeeper repository cloned & forked - Check

sudo !! all over the place with a bit of forking this and root that... Linux makes me feel so dirty, love it.

*yawn*  all that scrolling text is somewhat hypnotic, doing this whilst tired is probably not such a great idea, but  one can not learn unless mistakes are made.

Attending the Melbourne Woot Moot this week, should be nice to meet some females of the geek persuasion, I need to improve my male vs female geeks ratio... Seriously I only know male geeks.

Wish I had more time this week for geeking alas the Virtual Assistant business is booming and I'm under a lot of pressure!