I’m a little late with the SCOSUG tale, but that isn’t my problem. I can post it when I feel like it. And I think I feel like it now.

I arrived at the meeting place, Innovation Software, around 5:45.

But before I continue, allow me to give a brief description of Innovation. When you walk in, the first thing in your face is the MAME cabinet being worked on. And this is a NICE cabinet. Quality coolness. The next things you see are the penguin/bsdeamon posters/stickers/whatever all over. Only two people are present at the time, both discussing a kernel bug one of them found in relation to samba. And while they do that I just read this poster on unix optimization.

Now, more people show up over the next 20 minutes or so. We finally go sit down in the room the talk is being given. This room has like 15 workstations, and along with those is an awesome chair. Further observation reveals a massive projected mounted in the ceiling. It has lots of buttons AND a remote.

So yea. Everyone sits down, and Chris Hilton gives his talk on Python (with the use of the awesome projector). He has a PDF file, each page is a slide.

He pretty much just goes ever python basics. (Strings, lists, tuples, dicts, etc etc). Nothing all that interesting, as I knew all of it from Learning Python. But still, it was a good talk. Then people broke into groups and had little conversations on whatever.

So after that, people said they were going to the dinner. Having no idea which dinner they were going to (there was some sort of food-supply store out front), I asked if they were walking. They weren’t. John offered me a ride to the diner and home.

Only eight people (there were like 20 at the talk) go to the diner. The guy sitting next to me (I don’t remember his name. Come to think of it, I don’t think he ever told me his name.) was damn funny. The nerdy discussion was great too.

Oh yea, I forgot. John’s car is really cool. It has a little screen that shows all kinds of stuff. THe car was also gas/electric. And he had an iPod. And none of those stupid meters for fuel level and speed. It had a nice digital display for this stuff.

I’ll say it again. His car is really cool.

And on top of that, he said he could give me a ride to the meeting on Monday. The one with the Debian people. w00t. John is awesome.

And I was going to say something about today’s field trip, but I don’t feel like it anymore.