AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier – YouTube

On May 19, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn recommendationsLeave a comment

AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier – YouTube
— Read on www.youtube.com/embed/bdBuDg7mrT8

Amazing athleticism and gorgeous choreography too.

nifty data science tool

On May 17, 2018May 17, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn recommendations, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Perhaps for those of you who do Kaggle competitions or just need some data from Wikipedia:

SImilar to my csvs-to-sqlite tool, but sqlitebiter handles “CSV/Excel/HTML/JSON/LTSV/Markdown/SQLite/SSV/TSV/Google-Sheets”. Most interestingly, it works against HTML pages—run “sqlitebiter -v url ’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_firewalls’” and it will scrape that Wikipedia page and create a SQLite table for each of the HTML tables it finds there.

via sqlitebiter

Seiko Wednesday

On May 16, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn Wrist shotsLeave a comment

I need to write a long post about this one. For now just a picture will have to do.

Tan suede

On May 14, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn Watches, Wrist shotsLeave a comment

An interesting combo with a blue dial.

This is the Barton via Amazon. Good value at ~20USD.

Still not sure what I think of suede though.

PyCon 2018

On May 13, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn TravelLeave a comment

This is, I think, my fourth? San Jose, Montreal and now Cleveland. Always a great conference and lots of enthusiastic and friendly people. The talks were a bit less expert than I’d like but it is 60% first timers now. City was good, lots of nice buildings downtown and green compared to home.

Public art is always nice.

I did the PyLadies auction again, thanks Greg for taking me in Montreal! Social anxiety is a problem and friendship helps.

Overall good. Lots of companies looking for Python developers.

It’s 2018 and I still need fsck

On May 2, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn RandomLeave a comment

File this under “Really?”

That’s my wife’s laptop, spending an hour rebuilding the file system after it got corrupted. I had to know the command-v boot trick and video record it booting (!) to see the error fly by before it auto rebooted, then boot recovery, open a terminal and run fsck with a -r.

Ain’t no way a random user could manage it. Apple! Bash some bugs would ya?

Zero DS-R

On April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn Random, recommendations3 Comments

Took a test ride today. Was initially thinking Zero S, but I much preferred the upright stance on the DS. Awesome bike and damn near silent.

More than enough range for my commute and work has free charging. Not too heavy, easy to ride, very zippy and easy to maneuver. Me like.

Going flying

On April 24, 2018 By Paul HubbardIn FlyingLeave a comment

I won a charity auction for a biplane ride, but the pilot was super super generous and offered to also let me come along for a lunch run in the Cirrus SR22. Got some stick time in both and had a truly spectacular day. Thank you Tom!