34 hours of travel and some half-melted Tim Tams

From what I hear, the impression that I got of Boston last weekend was unrealistically good: golden leaves still hung from the trees in that way that you expect in Boston, and the weather was unusually warm. Even the rat I saw scurrying towards the tracks in the subway seemed quaint and Bostonian. Apparently I should have been freezing and cursing the horrible stinking city. I did get my share of frustrations as I was trying to leave the city, though. They involved a conspiratorial cabby that either cheated me or got cheated by me.

Anyway, I met up with glyph, exarkun, Itamar, Mike Salib, and orbitz (not quite as insane as I expected) while I was in Boston. I found out that Mike is actually the guy who gave the rather energetic talk on Starkiller a couple years ago at a PyCon. I also met Itamar's friend and flatmate Maggie when a group of us went to see Harry Potter Part 4: Revenge of the Philosopher's Sith Lord, or whatever it was.

Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to pair-program with glyph or exarkun on anything, but we did talk quite a bit about virtual world simulation frameworks, video games, persistence systems, and the respective commercial applications of Divmod and Nunatak. I enjoyed yammering on with them quite a lot after not seeing them for two years or however long it's been.

I thought of about three different things I want to blog about in the past few days, each one warranting an individual post, but I can't recall any of them.