Cerrisian Blog

I went to the OSUG meeting tonight with a coworker of mine. The presentations covered Joomla! and Griffon, a rails like framework for Swing gui applications using Groovy. It was really quite impressive, especially the additional build support for applets and webstart.

I was able to take my new system76 starling netbook (that I’m typing on right now) and connect to the free internet, that ability made me some friends.

All the people were really nice there, and excited. Most of them were a bit older than I was, and I was shocked at the number of women (3 out of a group of about 14 people in total). Definitely a creative, vibrant group. My type of people

I’m going to follow this up with some more posts on my PyCon 2008 log later.

Today at the reservior I saw this cute little terrier mutt by a kid fishing. Every time the kid would catch a fish, the dog would get excited and try to eat it. He’d also go into the water a little bit and bark at the lake, it was hilarious.

After coming back from the top, we saw the dog still hanging around the lake, pointing and barking and trying to get the fish out.

I’ve never seen a dog so excited about fish! My dad called him “Sea Biscuit”.