Last Wednesday, Geek Cruises' Perl Whirl swung through Juneau. I met them there for the Pub Crawl bit-- 40 geeks drinking beer at various places around Juneau.
This is the highlight of my year. I had been so isolated as a geek that I had forgotten what it was like to *be* a geek in geek society. We had discussions on inane topics (like the impact of Internet communications on society, and the nature of crop circles ("Two blokes with a bit of string.")) and topical (the nature of ideas wrt ownership of knowledge).
Mostly, though, we talked about simple technical matters, and about how good the beer was.
I'll post a couple of pictures sometime in the next few days.
gnome-filer
I've accomplished a little bit with gnome-filer, but I
haven't committed most of my changes. Why? Because I'm not
entirely happy with the code. I want to get back to the
point at which it worked; that is, I want a user interface
builder that uses pluggable language bindings. (I had all
that last October.)
Life
Anyway, life has gotten in the way of coding. This is the
summer of teenage girls; a friend of the family is staying
with us for a week during the music festival (she's 13); my
daughter comes to visit in July (she's 12); and then, a
cousin (14) is coming to stay with us while her sister (17)
has a baby.
Yikes.