oscon day one

So the first day of OSCON is coming to a close, the focus of the first two days is tutorials. John has been taking a heavily perl and coding track while I've gone after the MySQL database track. Having looked over the schedule of tutorials I wish there were about four more of us out here so we could catch everything. Conferences like this are so much fun because you see what other people are doing and how they are applying the technologies of tomorrow to what they are doing today. I'd equate it to fishing by yourself, while you can perfect your own method there are some tricks that you are not going to pick up unless you run into some other anglers out there and see what they are doing that works or does not work. One of the items that I find most scary is that the people that I think of as my peers aren't really doing things a whole lot differently then we are and while they may be better in one specific thing or another we aren't that far off, not bad for this crazy world of technology where youtube.com can go to a virtual staple in the online community in less that six months. Ideas, ideas, ideas are what pour from a place like this and pulling them together is the challenge.

I also managed to run into some roomates from Lincoln, Nebraska (where I'm originally from, GO HUSKERS) and did some catching up. Two of them now live and Portland (one of which is moving to China next week) and one was up here visiting. Odd how the stars seem to line up to make certain very unlikely events possible.

ScottK

Comments

[Rob]

Is that A-list stars or B-list stars?
This is a very dry blog. Next you will be talking about the belly lint you found in your navel.
"Oooo, looks like part of the saltene craker I was eating last night in bead."
Why is this blog called "Laugh Tracks"? Is it because there's nothing funny going on here and the laugh track has to be used like a bad sit com? or is the "Track" in reference to the train wreck that seems to happen everytime somethng is posted by GoComics?
Aaauughhh!!! My cranium just imploded from reading such vacuous drivel! What has hapened to the comic strip industry? It's like the syndicates have employed a room full of chimps to Produce the strips hoping for something funny to come out. Instead they get things like "Retail", Domestic Abuse" or "Hagar the Horrible Horrible Comic". I'm really dissapointed with those chimps.

Post something interesting or at least make funny things up.

[Rob]

Is that A-list stars or B-list stars?
This is a very dry blog. Next you will be talking about the belly lint you found in your navel.
"Oooo, looks like part of the saltene craker I was eating last night in bed."
Why is this blog called "Laugh Tracks"? Is it because there's nothing funny going on here and the laugh track has to be used like a bad sit com? or is the "Track" in reference to the train wreck that seems to happen everytime somethng is posted by GoComics?
Aaauughhh!!! My cranium just imploded from reading such vacuous drivel! What has hapened to the comic strip industry? It's like the syndicates have employed a room full of chimps to Produce the strips hoping for something funny to come out. Instead they get things like "Retail", Domestic Abuse" or "Hagar the Horrible Horrible Comic". I'm really dissapointed with those chimps.

Post something interesting or at least make funny things up.

[Joe Bob Briggs]

Well, double posting the same comment certainly is funny. But you forgot to complain about Flash. Flash sux! OMG! ROFLOL!! Myspace was down and I didn't know what to do with my time!!! O I kn txt my boiz!!!!!!!

[Rob]

By the way...

Flash sucks.

Superman is faster.

[peterd]

I disagree about strips. New strips like Ink Pen, Lio, Bad Reporter, Tiny Sepuku, WayLay and Pearls Before Swine have ushered in the next golden age of comic strips.