Skis / Toys / Fun

Found this on skidiva.com Advanced or Expert - Not Sure, it’s worth considering for any pursuit — not just skiing.
skigrl27 wrote:
Tiger Woods is an expert golfer, but he is challenged every time he plays, right? You will always be challenged on the slopes - heck, that’s kinda why we’re out there, right? There will always [...]

Ok, spent a week in Chile skiing at Portillo — totally cool!  But, like anything I’m both totally psyched and totally frustrated…  Here’s some video from the last day…  My left hand turns suck (ok, it’s relative…)

I think I’ve now spent more time in my life than I ever want to think about fighting spam…  I guess that has to do with spending the 20 years having some involvement in SMTP mail systems.  Of course the stint writing the core infrastructure for MailFrontier’s anti-spam engine didn’t hurt my knowledge base.
My current [...]

[originally posted to comp.lang.python -- but worth repeating]
Ruby has been getting pummeled for the last year or more on the performance subject. They’ve been working hard at improving it. From my arm chair perspective Python is sitting on it’s laurels and not taking this as seriously as it probably should. In general [...]