6. Happy New Year, everyone!

   I hope everyone has (or had!) a good New Year's eve, and let's hope that 2007 is even better!

   --titus

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7. Books

   A few books that stand out in my mind, among those that I've read recently:

   The Historian

   Middlesex

   The Time Traveler's Wife

   Calamity Physics

   The Geographer's Library

   The Codex

   Briefly, The Historian is a fabulous book about the search for Vlad Dracula. Middlesex is ... hard to explain. It's a Pulitzer …

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8. Here's some holiday randomness for y'all.

   A little haiku-ish poem from Tracy:

   purr goes the kitty
   covering papers and notes
   lying on the desk
   

   (As you might guess from this, our cat likes to lie on top of papers in order to get our attention.)

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9. Done!

   Done. DONE. done. Done done done done done.

   I defended Sep 5th. That went well.

   Unfortunately I had lots of revisions to do.

   That is finally finished: everyone signed off on the revisions.

   If I don't officially have my nigh-irrevocable PhD by the new year, it will be because of …

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10. Galcon

    Over the last week, I've spent far too much time playing Galcon, an addictive game developed by Phil Hassey using Pygame and other tools.

    In Galcon, you are a general out for conquest. You start with one or a few planets that produce fighters, and you're pitted against "independent" planets …

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11. A Random Thought for the Day

    I just saw a commercial for a styling gel. It connected the use of styling gel to breaking free of Mao. Conclusion: I live in a silly country.

    --titus

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12. Our PyCon tutorial was also accepted!

    Grig and I will be reprising our Testing Tutorial at PyCon '07! This year I think we have a better idea of what people found useful, and in consequence we should be a bit better organized, too.

    Our outline is here: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Tutorials

    More anon.

    --titus …

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