10 Oct 2001 whytheluckystiff   » (Master)

Today I have strep throat.  Finally a reason to use a
sick day and write in my diary. I won't be covering
WTC and Jihad because I am uninformed and the issues
are too big for me to make my official public
statement
. I did hear Bush and I did hear the Sec. of
Defense. Under my breath: "Tally ho."

I'm going to be diving back into open source stuff
very soon. I've had so many ideas that I can't just shelve.
I'd really like to make a Debian distro that focuses on Python
users. It's an idea I've had for awhile and I'd mostly
do it for myself to lug between machines. (But I'm sure
other people could use it.) Basically, most distros focus
on end users and I want a distro that helps me set up a nice
dev environment. I want Vim 6, Python 2, Zope, anything
Python related. I'd actually like to take it to the point where
the distro installer, the packaging system, perhaps even the
window manager has Python hooks or is entirely coded in Python.
I'm not saying it would be the ultimate package for
everyone. I'm just sick of having to pear down whatever distro
I'm using and install all the packages seperately. And Python's
a great language, I'd love to help further it's influence.
Oh, and if there's already a distro that can do all
this.. feel free to let me know so I don't go on and do something
terribly exhaustive.

I'm also trying to work out a plan with the school
district in which I attended high school. I've
been teaching a C programming class to high school kids and I'd
like to some part-time teaching at the school during the
day. The kids I've been teaching are making awesome progress
and I'd really like to reach a wider subset of teenagers.
Part of me can't wait to see if one of these kids will turn
out to be the next RMS. Or perhaps the next Dmitry Sklyarov??

Been enjoying the new Sparklehorse album It's a
Wonderful Life
:
I wish i had a horse's head,
A tiger's heart,
An apple bed
Also, I've been watching old episodes of Space Ghost
Coast-to-Coast from this archive. You've got to see the episode
Sequel (1999). The close-ups on Birdman's face gives me
such laughter that I could be stretched beneath a horse
stampede and easily come out chuckling. Other good episodes:
Boat Show, Girl Hair (with Hanson), Chambraigne. Well,
until later..

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