Assembled geeks are settling in for morning keynotes, but rather than repeat whats in the blogs, including mine, I'll use this space to register some satisfaction with the social networking side. I've been comparing notes with Duncan McGreggor of divmod for example, a Twisted guy (Electric Duncan blog), discovered some pleasing overlap when it comes to native cultures (Lakota in his case, showed him the medicine wheel in my Chicago talk video feed, like at showmedo). Steve Holden kindly joined me at the Linus Pauling House (LP = x2 Nobel winner, chemistry & peace, a no nukes guy, vitamin C nut) where I gave a lightning talk, after a brief tour, and before beers.** I flipped through the same butcher papers I'd used at my last conference at Oregon State, mentions the P4E and HP4E projects (where I tend to go with Python, tons on file already (open source flight plan)). As I was mentioning to Anna of Alaska recently (TECC file), we're moving towards autonomy in casinos network circles, in terms of having local talent write some new games (still lots of import / export, self-sufficiency doesn't mean isolation, means changing comparative advantage equations, as economists put it). Or, to make a long story short, a Pygame slot machine, studied in math class, might go a long way towards achieving these goals (more in my controlroom yesterday). http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/07/python-project.html Fun story: when I got home after the keynotes last night (Holden, Shuttleworth, R0ml, Conway -- Holden did State of the Snake in a superfast manner, way cool), my mom, 78, said she hoped Drupal got mentioned, because as a web wrangler with wilpf.org, she really appreciates Drupal. Well, just so happens one of the coveted Google O'Reilly awards went to a Drupal MVP, Angela Byron. Kirby ** LPH is where this group called Wanderers converges, lots of 'em geeks, such as that Keith Lofstrom character, also around here somewhere.