Empty Thoughts

I got this from Leah Culver. You’re supposed to highlight the items in the list that you’ve experienced. Kinda cool. So here it goes:

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band (guitar in high school and college)

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland

8. Climbed a mountain (does Half Dome count?)

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo (not really, but sang a bunch)

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (guitar?)

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning (I’ll never eat nachos again)

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (saw it from the ferry :))

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (duh!)

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run (little league)

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language (Spanish sort of. It’s rusty these days)

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke (Maggie May, lots of drinks that night)

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (no but others)

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (Florida)

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie (foreign film)

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business (several)

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (raccoon radio)

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten caviar

72. Pieced a quilt (please)

73. Stood in Times Square (not sure was pretty drunk)

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (raced)

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person (sort of)

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car (when I shouldn’t have)

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (crawdaddys?)

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby (well not directly)

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit (HR Bullshit)

98. Owned a mobile phone

99. Been stung by a bee

100. Read an entire book in one day

Hayden started taking drum lessons about a month ago and he’s been really into it. He comes home most nights and practices his drums. He also often sings and plays although I have a real hard time capturing him on video. He will stop as soon as he is aware I’m recording it. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun to see him learning drums.

Hayden Drumming from Michael Trier on Vimeo.

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we do a DjangoCon retrospective, feature a special live interview with Pownce developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone, discuss a few source commits and some cool projects from the community.

Check it out…

Last weekend I had the unique privilege to attend and participate in DjangoCon, the first international Django based conference. It was a wonderful experience and I had the great opportunity to meet a lot of incredibly smart people. I was especially excited to be able to participate by Moderating two discussion panels and doing the This Week in Django show live. The whole thing was held at Google, which is just amazing, and they recorded all of the presentations and have made them available. I encourage you to enjoy the fun. note, if you want higher quality videos watch them on YouTube and select “watch in high quality”. I participated in the following:

Panel: Django Technical Design

A technical design discussion panel featuring core developers: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick. This one was a ton of fun and I only wish we had more time. I had a bunch of questions that I did not get the opportunity to ask, and others that were covered in prior keynotes so I thought it was best not to harp on them any longer.

Panel: Schema Evolution

A panel discussion on Schema Evolution and three popular approaches to this problem for Django. Featured project leads Simon Willison (dmigrations), Russ Keith-Magee (django-evolution), Andrew Godwin (South). This panel had some spirited discussion on schema evolution and their different approaches. It seems that there are enough similarities that we will hopefully see some collaboration among the projects.

TWiD Live

Michael Trier & Brian Rosner do a live presentation of the This Week in Django podcast. We were a bit nervous about this one since in our regular weekly podcast we have an opportunity to stop and start or do certain item over again. With the exception of a couple of minor mistakes it turned out great and was tons of fun. I was quite surprised by the number of questions that were asked. The only bummer about this one right now is that it cuts off the intro and the outro, but we’re trying to get Google to restore that.

Well it’s finally here. Django 1.0 is the moment a lot of us have been waiting for. It’s a very exciting moment for the Django team but even more so for the development community at large. It represents a huge milestone in the web framework space.

Django, without a doubt, brings forth some incredibly innovative ideas that help take web development to the next level. So I am pleased to be a part of this, in some small way, but also looking forward to what’s next for Django and its popularity as a web framework.

If you haven’t had the pleasure to experience Django I encourage you to do so now. You’re programming mind will thank you for the experience.

This Week in Django 36 has been posted. It’s a great episode with our special guest James Bennett. Hear James talk about the book, the blog, speaking, and a whole lot more.

This Week in Django 35 has been posted. Don’t miss it. We catch up with Robert Lofthouse, Chairman of DjangoCon and EuroDjangoCon.

Django documentation has been refactored (Changeset 8506) using the excellent Sphinx – Python documentation generator. This is the same package used to generate the new Python documentation Check out the new docs at http://docs.djangoproject.com/. Now I have to go and update all my shortcut snippets. Thanks go especially to Jacob Kaplan-Moss and numerous contributors for all of their hard work on this one.

My good friend Justin Lilly just posted a great short screencast on using Vim macros. In the screencast he walks you through using the Vim macro commands to record and play back key sequences. Justin, several other friends, and I have been helping each other get the most out of MacVim. I highly recommend you take one minute and give it a viewing.

Since I forgot to blog about it earlier he has also created a excellent post on his Vim setup called Vim: My new IDE. If you’re into Vim or want to get going on it, this post contains an awesome collection of stuff that Justin has found useful.