Note: I do NOT suffer from depression. I’m not trying to make light of the serious condition that is depression. I just got back from PyCon. I had a booth for DBCLI (OpenSource project), I gave a talk about my work at Netflix, I manned the job fair table and participated in the sprints. People were coming up to me and showering with praise about my OpenSource project and my talk....

Vian has more than a few words in his vocabulary now and he’s not afraid to show off. I’m having breakfast with Vian. We hear the bathroom flush. Vian gets all animated and yells “Poop!” and points to the restroom. Another day, the same setup. I’m having breakfast with Vian. Yoshi joins us with a cup of tea. Vian points to the steam rising from the cup and yells “HOT”....

I love dosas. Dosa is a south Indian dish. A better version of a crepe (shots fired) or a ridiculously thin pancake. Sempi (5yo) is also a huge fan. I’m making dosas for his breakfast and he requested that I make the dosas into shapes for him. He requested a police car. I was happy to oblige. Sempi: What is this? Me: A police car. Sempi: It looks like a spaceship....

I believe that the language you speak influences the way you think. I don’t have any kind of proof other than some anecdotal evidence. Recently I started noticing this in the field of computer languages as well. I consider Python to be my dominant language. I have a coworker (let’s call him Aaron, because that’s his name) who likes to bait me by pointing out certain lack of features in Python and how Ruby gets it right....

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