Thoughts on 365 Days of Meditation

I really resisted meditation. I thought it was incredibly, incredibly dumb. You sit still and your life gets better? That doesn’t sound scientific. Plus, I’m a pretty calm person. I don’t *need* to meditate. And what if I fall asleep? What if someone interrupts me? What if I do it wrong? Around this time last […]

How to delete your terminal the night before PyCon

TL:DR – PyCon was great, you can delete your terminal, you can get it back, Cleveland is great and has a lot of good coffee. PyCon was and will be in Cleveland for the 2018 and 2019 conferences. I was really looking forward to the Cleveland trip this year and the city did not disappoint. […]

The Transit of Venus: From archive to wall in 25 steps

In 2012, I observed the Transit of Venus at the American Philosophical Society (APS) in Philadelphia. The APS was around for an earlier Transit, specifically the one in 1769, when they set up three temporary viewing sites and formed a committee, headed by astronomer, clockmaker, and craftsman, David Rittenhouse, to record this significant event. Those […]