Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 38

Paying attention to another presentation at Rancho Electrónico’s Debian 20th anniversary celebration

As I slowly read my good friends wishing each other a good trip, telling they got home safely, and the IRC channels form thick drops of a bitter-sweet etheral substance, I cannot help feeling DebConf13 is over — For me as well, from the distance. Many friends gave me warm greetings, and without being there, gave me that beautiful feeling of real community that Debian has given me for ten years already, since I met in real-life many of its developers at DebConf3 in Oslo. And –yes, I have stated this far too many times– I have attended every DebConf...

So… Well, contrary to the popular sentiment in Planet Debian, this year I’m very sorry to inform that… This is the first DebConf I miss in ten years, so… Yes, it’s a big bummer for me. I’m not attending because this year, DebC(amp onf) coincide with the two first weeks of classes at my university — And as a new teacher, I cannot afford to miss it! Anyway, but that should not stand in the way to attend a nice Debian 20th anniversary party! Parties will be held around the world. (Didn’t find your city? Plan something and add it...

For all Spanish-speakers that read my blog, specially for the cyclists among you, and most specially for those that dwell in Mexico City’s streets: I was recently pointed to a project started inside the Faceboook labrynth by Sandro Cohen, writer and academic: El zen del ciclista urbano. I met Sandro around twenty years ago. He writes in a very good, simple style. What I didn’t know until now is that he has also become an urban cyclism promotor, just as me and many of my friends. In this page he started, he posts snippets on the topic of being an...

Or why are their walls full of Babylonian inscriptions?

Potato chips covered in chocolate. I cannot say they opened my appetite.

Are East both left and almost-right?