General
I never knew that there was such a title as Chief Nuclear Officer, but apparently it's pretty routine. Did anyone notice that every single one of those Chief Nuclear Officers was male? I thought there were fairly few female programmers -- and I've been teaching Python to lots of women and so, I think, doing my part to change that -- but there seem to be no female Chief Nuclear Officers. Go figure.
It's confusing to know someone named Sumana and someone named Simona. They both match S[ui]m[ao]na, and the "mana/mona" part is pronounced approximately the same (kind of like the Muppets' "manahmanah"), so you basically have to notice immediately whether someone said "su" or "si" in order to tell their names apart.
I wrote a "DRM Dark Age" proposal for a conference.
I visited Biella, saw her new place (the downstairs half of her old place), and worked on Python with her for a bit.
