OSCON2005[1]
03/08/05 01:07 |
InfoTech
It's a good thing I bought a second battery for my
laptop; I barely had enough juice to last yesterday.
I was very psyched about Damian Conway's tutorials;
truth be told they are one of the major things that
got my interest in the convention. This morning,
while I was waiting for his talk to start, I created
a Flickr account so that I can enter the HP Photo
contest if I get any pictures I think are worth
entering. I'm picking front row seats at each of the
talks which is something I wouldn't normally do but I
feel like I need to make sure I'm not hendered by
being too far away to see the slides, or hear the
speaker. There are some big thinkers here and
listening to them got me thinking about possibly
giving my own talk some day. I don't consider myself
an expert on any of the things love enough yet but
someday I'd like to speak before an audience.
Today I learned that I am very dumb. In order to become undumb I will require (much * infinity) more practice at my craft. While I could keep up ok with the Perl Best Practices tutorial. I was mostly lost during the object oriented tutorial. Not because I don't understand the concepts or what he was suggesting but because I've had little experience with object oriented Perl. That particular tutorial assumed that you had a bit more knowledge than I do. I will be fixing that at some point in time. There are many smart people here which is nice but somewhat intimidating. So far I've met and spoke with 5 of the presenters at the convention and all of them seem to have intuitive understanding of their topics. I am still battling jet-lag but having an easier time than yesterday, where once I got back to my room I could no longer fight to stay awake. After a long day I really enjoyed the speeches at the "Tuesday Night Extravaganza".
This "sun" thing up in the sky is very strange. It seems to produce a type of radiation that the "day-people" accept being irradiated with. It is very hurty on the eyes and makes sleepy ju-ju at me. When I find a way to turn off the sun I'll surely execute the proper procedure.
Today I learned that I am very dumb. In order to become undumb I will require (much * infinity) more practice at my craft. While I could keep up ok with the Perl Best Practices tutorial. I was mostly lost during the object oriented tutorial. Not because I don't understand the concepts or what he was suggesting but because I've had little experience with object oriented Perl. That particular tutorial assumed that you had a bit more knowledge than I do. I will be fixing that at some point in time. There are many smart people here which is nice but somewhat intimidating. So far I've met and spoke with 5 of the presenters at the convention and all of them seem to have intuitive understanding of their topics. I am still battling jet-lag but having an easier time than yesterday, where once I got back to my room I could no longer fight to stay awake. After a long day I really enjoyed the speeches at the "Tuesday Night Extravaganza".
This "sun" thing up in the sky is very strange. It seems to produce a type of radiation that the "day-people" accept being irradiated with. It is very hurty on the eyes and makes sleepy ju-ju at me. When I find a way to turn off the sun I'll surely execute the proper procedure.
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