Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Sssh, no one tell my life insurance company.

#electronics #cursed

Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?

Remember this simple rhyme:
"Black touches Red, you're in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you're in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow²."³

¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they *would* be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.

#flags #vexillology #mnemonics

I dunno if you can tell from my open tabs, but I miss my #pebble... 😿

(And my #PineTime is really not cutting it...)

Tried to go extremely stereotypical, specifying the "three eyes" multiple ways. The closest I got was a lemur with a little yellow light on its forehead.

“a three-eyed lemur; the lemur is sitting in a lotus position and all three of its eyes are open. The third eye is centered on its forehead. highly detailed digital art trending on artstation”

Just finished with my son's reading lesson (using *Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons*, which is working *amazingly*, by the way); afterwards, I was trying to looking up the history of the character "a" and was reminded of how rigged the game is.

Me: "I should get this shirt."
Wife: "... Why?"
Me: "To look extremely cool, obviously."

Nailed it.

(Not shown: the matching one my 5 year old was wearing.)

#fashion #hautecouture

Yo dawg, I heard you like bicycles...

#bikes

Carter's has this shirt for kids, but I can't find an adult version anywhere. Trying to tell Amazon or a search engine that it's important that the shirt have all three colors (much less in a specific order) seems impossible.

"Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I'll launch it. Oh, there's an update available, so Discord *prevents me from opening their appliaction*."

Reason #215 to avoid #discord.

#PyConSprints goal: Get this number down to 0.

#PyConUS #PyConUS2023

Did you know that you can just tag your wheel manylinux without actually making it manylinux compliant?

#pyconus #PyConUS2023

Watching this talk: "Lalala if I can't hear you this can't hurt me!"

#pyconus #pyconus2023

Wow, numpy's wheel contains 964 files.

Also apparently they ship their tests in their wheels (boooo).

#pyconus #PyConUS2023

Time for the Wheelhouse of Horrors with László Kiss-Kollar.

#pyconus #PyConUS2023

Handing out raspberry pi based devices that use MQTT to play multi-player snake and display the results to the room live. 😯

Next level live demoing.

#pyconus #pyconus2023

Turning on and off the lights and changing their colors with Python, apparently using the same pub sub protocol that FB messenger uses.

#pyconus #PyConUS2023

Time to learn about gadgets and gizmos. 🙂

#pyconus #PyConUS2023

So glad that Erlend Aasland took it upon himself to make
`zoneinfo` and `datetime` work with isolated interpreters. 🙏❤.

#python #pyconus #pyconus2023

Lol, Mario Corchero: "This talk was totally about f-strings and not about PyStack"

Classic.

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@glyph "If you learn anything from this talk, it should be, 'Use the keyring module'"

Too late! I already learned a different thing!

#pyconus #PyConUS2023