warrior geeks

[Ken Seehof]

Me too.  I'm an Aikidoist.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hodgson" <garry at sage.att.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: warrior geeks


> 
> a funny thing happened at IPC9.  a bunch of were sitting in the
> lounge (bar) talking, and one person mentioned that he was going
> to study kendo while in japan this year.  i asked if he had previous
> martial arts experience, and he said yes, he'd studied judo.
> it then turned out that in this group of maybe 6-7 people, we had
> this judo/kendo student, another who's done karate and now kickboxing,
> another who did karate, myself (okinawan karate, aikijutsu and others),
> and a pa qua practitioner.  at the next table sat another tae kwon
> do/aikido
> student.
> 
> it seemed like an odd coincidence, but it made me wonder: is there an 
> unusually high percentage of MA practitioners among the python
> community?
> or the open source community?  or software in general?
> 
> enquiring minds want to know...
> 
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