| When | Where | Who | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, May 1st | TT The Bears | Mahjongg, La Faccia Brutta, Fraction | $8 |
| Sunday, May 8th | Middle East Downstairs | Erik Friedlander, The Mountain Goats, Shearwater | $12 |
| Thursday, May 12th | TT The Bears | Les Georges Leningrad, Stereo Total, Hawnay Troof | $14 |
| When | Where | Who | Price |
posted by Mike Burns at 04:03
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With lots of help from Pete Markowsky, and last-minute checking by Matt Horan, I released into the wild the Python X-expression library (py-xexpr). It's even on PyPI.
The license is LGPL, and there are only two public functions provided. The data structure was changed at the last minute to be more rigorous. The XML -> Xexpr function takes an optional argument telling it to strip whitespace. And there are many tests.
posted by Mike Burns at 00:34
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Party
Mike Distaula somehow threw an excellent party. About thirty people showed up, we threw a flying disc (both inside and outside), some good music was played (and lots of bad music was played), and it lasted for six hours.
Programming
This party come immediately after a 30-hour hacking binge, during which many a fight broke out and much food was consumed. As of Tuesday, April 12th, at 4:30PM, I am done hacking on Carcassonne. Probably.
An outcome of this project is the yet-to-be-releaseed py-xexpr (I'll announce it when I release it). It is two Python modules (Read and Write) which provide XML as a native Python data structure, called an Xexpr (very similar to the Xexpr used in PLT).
Having gone from discussing a party to discussing programming shows that I need to split this Web log into three: parties, music, and programming. I'd love ideas on how to use my existing Blogger to do this (I don't know enough about things like Technorati to know that it will fix this; will it?), or some other service for each Web log, or any other idea.
Upcoming
posted by Mike Burns at 04:01
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posted by Mike Burns at 04:38
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On Friday (April 1st) I, along with Matt, Mike, and Sarah, saw The Beatings open for Mittens, The Lot Six, and Apollo Sunshine (to be exact, they saw Apollo Sunshine headline a show with The Beatings, The Lot Six, and Mittens as openers). Half the bands were really good.
Although they were the reason I went to this show, they ended up as my second favorite band from the night. The bassist was really cute and songs like Nothing particularly rocked, but they also played songs like When The Guns Come Out, which, while good, sounds just as good from the comfort of my room. I bought Italiano finally, from Erin (the cute bassist).
Mittens
They were fun, and the vocalist had a good sense of humor and performed well. For example, the band forgot their second song halfway through; this normally-devastating event was saved by the vocalist singing "We don't know the words/We just wrote this song/Sorry! Sorry!/Maybe we should stop?". I wouldn't (and didn't) buy their album.
To me, The Lot Six stole the show. They flat-out rocked. I let my hair down and headbanged, jumped into the mosh pit, then back up to the front where the vocalist was throwing the microphone stand into the subwoofer and the front row. He also decided to help the drummer out by jumping on the drum set. They kicked our ass for 40 minutes then left, and it was worth it.
I met a high-school friend in the audience who is apparently the roommate of some of the members of the band. For me, he told them that they'd better not suck; sadly, it didn't work.
They:
posted by Mike Burns at 00:48
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