17 February 2009

GrandPa

My grandfather on my father's side of the family passed away before I was born. I knew he ran a service station but never new much more about it.

It appears that my brother found a photo of it in a recent home town paper.




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A bit lost

I have been overwelmed as of late, too many things do too soon, to the point that I am not getting anything done.  I have used remember the milk, but with limited success.  Now I am moving on to toodledo, lets hope it works better.

The idea of goals with subtask may make things easier.  It is a start.

02 February 2009

pleasing the eyes

I have been looking for ways to get more people at work to use Python.  Lots of Perl hacks there, so the sale has not been too easy.  The best approach may be the old marketing approach, eye candy.

Where I work is a conservative group of math and computer geeks, so while a normal eye candy would work, but would not be appreciated by management, so I have found the following works okay:
These are from matplotlib http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
I hope to post some examples of matplotlib generated from Python in the near future.  I have some orbital paths go generated for school, and I may try that in Python/Numpy.