{"id":1119,"date":"2007-04-08T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2007-04-08T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T21:27:31","slug":"linuxchix-plug-etch-oh-and-happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2007\/04\/linuxchix-plug-etch-oh-and-happy-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"LinuxChix, PLUG, Etch (oh and Happy Easter!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday Kris from my old job came over. She’s really into gardening and gave me a few shade and wet ground loving plants (woo!) as well as a few nice flowers that I was able to get planted earlier this week. It’s nice to finally have a “real life” person to consult about gardening things. That evening we all went out to dinner up at Ortino’s and I introduced her to the lambic – she chose the peach and was suitably impressed. Woo another convert!<\/p>\n

But the primary reason she was coming over was to spend the night so we could leave Sunday morning for the drive down to Baltimore for the joint PhillyChix\/DC Chix meeting.<\/p>\n

We left Sunday morning at 6:30, swung by Dunkin Donuts for some breakfast and hopped on the expressway. We took 422 to 202 to I-95 down into Baltimore, it was a simple drive and getting to the Aquarium in Baltimore was pretty easy (even if there was some construction at the exit). The drive down only took a little over 2 hours, so after parking we were there to meet Lauren, Katie and Raven shortly before 9AM.<\/p>\n

The National Aquarium<\/a> was great! I’d never been to Baltimore before, so it was all quite an experience – and I took pictures.<\/p>\n

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\nThere were tons of fish, but I didn’t get pictures of many because they were dimly lit and moved too much for the little digital camera I brought with me.<\/p>\n

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\nSea Anemones! I love these things.<\/p>\n

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\nThere were plenty of turtles.<\/p>\n

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\nThere was an impressive Australia exhibit, this photo catches some of it’s glory – as well as some giant bats hanging from the ceiling!<\/p>\n

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\nThis frog was the best. They have a big frog exhibit this summer, frogs are great.<\/p>\n

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\nA photo of Baltimore Harbor from inside the aquarium.<\/p>\n

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\nI squealed like a little girl when I saw this, and then I felt silly. I had heard about the campaign to dress up the mailboxes, but I don’t go into cities much and didn’t expect to actually see one.<\/center><\/p>\n

I love aquariums.<\/p>\n

Katie’s pictures from the day are here<\/a> and Lauren’s are here<\/a>. Lauren’s include a group shot!<\/p>\n

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\nKris, Lyz, Katie, Lauren (Raven not pictured)<\/center><\/p>\n

We left the aquarium around noon and headed to the Capitol City Brewery<\/a>. This is the second time we’ve had a meetup and the second time we’ve ended up at a brewery. It’s all my doing, and I’m the only one who really drinks beer. I need to stop hijacking meetings like this :P Actually everyone enjoys brewery food even if I was the only one drinking beer. I ended up with a Amber Waves Ale<\/b>: An American original West Coast style or California ale. Ours is medium bodied with an intense floral hop character featuring variants grown in Oregon and Washington. This beer style is a recent development in the craft brewing industry.<\/i> I was quite impressed with it, and brought a growler home to Michael. Oh and I had a crabcake sandwich, because that’s what you’re supposed to do in Maryland. The conversation was great too – we even talked about Linux a little ;) It’s just so relaxing to kick back with an awesome group of women from time to time, I look forward to our next meetup.<\/p>\n

It was almost 2PM by the time we left the brewery and I decided it was time to head back so I could get home at a reasonable time and hopefully miss some of the traffic on 95. The ride back was a bit slower than the ride in, we did hit a bit of traffic, but we were back at the house before 5PM.<\/p>\n

The other Linux event I attended this past week was the PLUG<\/a> meeting in downtown Philly. I don’t generally get down to these, but I had a very good reason to this time – Michael was presenting! He did a talk on “Cross-Platform Digital Audio Streaming” and I really enjoyed it. Slides here<\/a> and a photo here<\/a>. Yay myn :) After the meeting we had a keysigning – which I hadn’t done in FAR too long. Then we dropped by the Best House with the rest of the PLUG group to chat for a few minutes before driving home. We managed to make it home by 10:30.<\/p>\n

And Debian 4.0 released was released today!<\/a> Woohoo! We only have two sarge machines here at home (work is another story, as my co-worker so helpfully reminded me in IRC this morning, hah!), and we’ll probably wait a couple months to bring those up to etch, but it’s still nice to see Etch finally go stable, it’s been almost 2 years since sarge did.<\/p>\n

While I’m blabbering about Linux, I might as well mention that I was in the rare mood of wanting to “make my desktop pretty” yesterday and have quite a lovely pale purple setup right now. I also added hooks that will allow good access management to the dozens of servers at work, I love XFCE4.<\/p>\n

Finally, Happy Easter everyone, I managed to get my Robin Eggs and Cadbury Creme Eggs<\/a> yesterday, so I have been munching on them all morning – so bad! But so good… My chocolate intake has gone down since leaving my old job, so I figure it’s OK for me to indulge myself today. I also picked up some young gouda, port wine cheese and Deli-style rye Triscuits<\/a> to enjoy while watching zombie movies this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there are flurries out today, a white Easter? My poor daffodils!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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