From szabgab at gmail.com Wed Feb 9 12:03:00 2011 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:03:00 +0200 Subject: [LA.pm] SCALE - reports from FOSDEM Message-ID: Hi, SCALE is just 2 weeks from now and unfortunatelly I won't attend but let me send you a set of links with reports about our presence at FOSDEM: http://perl-ecosystem.org/events/fosdem_2011 You might get some ideas what and how to represent at the Perl booth. regards Gabor http://szabgab.com/ From granny+lapm at gmail.com Fri Feb 11 18:41:50 2011 From: granny+lapm at gmail.com (Andrew Grangaard) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:41:50 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] SCALE 9x discount code Re: Attending and/or volunteering for SCALE 9x! Message-ID: Hope to see many of you at SCALE in two weeks. The perl monger discount code is PMONG. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/ Please contact Juan if you're interested in volunteering. You may be able to get one of our free passes if you work the booth. (Then again, for you employeed folks, $60 full price, $30 with the discount code is amazingly reasonable). "Juan J. Natera" peace, Andrew spazm at cpan On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Juan J. Natera wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I wanted to remind every one that SCALE will be held during Feb 25 to > the 27th. The location has changed this year: > > Hilton Hotel > 5711 West Century Boulevard > Los Angeles, > CA 90045 > > There is a discount code for our use, it will give you 50% off the > price of admission: PMONG > > There will be 2 Perl presentations this year, but we don't have the > dates/times yet: > > * Pontificating on Perl Profiling by Lisa Hagemann: > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/pontificating-perl-profiling > > * Take Advantage of Modern Perl by chromatic > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/take-advantage-modern-perl > > I have been informed by Gabor, that chromatic will have copies of his > Modern Perl book for sale at our booth, so come pick up a copy or > two!! > > And talking about the booth we will be at booth #90, If you want to > volunteer and we *need* volunteers!, we have a limited number of > Exhibitor passes, so shoot me an email telling me when can you help at > the booth: > > Friday Afternoon > Saturday Morning > Saturday Afternoon > Sunday Morning > Sunday Afternoon > > I will then sign you up in our wiki* ?to keep track of this and I will > send you the information you will need to get you exhibitor pass. > > Thanks, I look forward to seeing you at SCALE 9x. > > Juan Natera > > *https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?events_2011_scale9x > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From migtek at gmail.com Fri Feb 11 20:11:32 2011 From: migtek at gmail.com (Miguel Hernandez) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:11:32 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] SCALE 9x discount code Re: Attending and/or volunteering for SCALE 9x! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In regards to Juan mentioning the schedule's not up (looks like he'd sent it before the schedule got posted), it is now. Both PERL talks are on Sunday (one right after the other in the same room): http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/take-advantage-modern-perl http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/pontificating-perl-profiling cya'll there, --miguel On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Andrew Grangaard wrote: > Hope to see many of you at SCALE in two weeks. > The perl monger discount code is PMONG. > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/ > > Please contact Juan if you're interested in volunteering. You may be > able to get one of our free passes if you work the booth. (Then > again, for you employeed folks, $60 full price, $30 with the discount > code is amazingly reasonable). > > "Juan J. Natera" > > peace, > Andrew > spazm at cpan > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Juan J. Natera > wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I wanted to remind every one that SCALE will be held during Feb 25 to > > the 27th. The location has changed this year: > > > > Hilton Hotel > > 5711 West Century Boulevard > > Los Angeles, > > CA 90045 > > > > There is a discount code for our use, it will give you 50% off the > > price of admission: PMONG > > > > There will be 2 Perl presentations this year, but we don't have the > > dates/times yet: > > > > * Pontificating on Perl Profiling by Lisa Hagemann: > > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/pontificating-perl-profiling > > > > * Take Advantage of Modern Perl by chromatic > > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/take-advantage-modern-perl > > > > I have been informed by Gabor, that chromatic will have copies of his > > Modern Perl book for sale at our booth, so come pick up a copy or > > two!! > > > > And talking about the booth we will be at booth #90, If you want to > > volunteer and we *need* volunteers!, we have a limited number of > > Exhibitor passes, so shoot me an email telling me when can you help at > > the booth: > > > > Friday Afternoon > > Saturday Morning > > Saturday Afternoon > > Sunday Morning > > Sunday Afternoon > > > > I will then sign you up in our wiki* to keep track of this and I will > > send you the information you will need to get you exhibitor pass. > > > > Thanks, I look forward to seeing you at SCALE 9x. > > > > Juan Natera > > > > *https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/index.cgi?events_2011_scale9x > > _______________________________________________ > > Losangeles-pm mailing list > > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > > > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From szabgab at gmail.com Sat Feb 12 12:54:08 2011 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:54:08 +0200 Subject: [LA.pm] OT: Visiting California with family Message-ID: Hi, I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) are planning to visit California in April. Besides the "obvious" places such as Disney Land, Seaworld, Universal Studio, the San Diego Zoo and "near by" Grand Canyon I would be happy to get some recommendations. What might be interesting for kids at that age? Please take in account that they hardly know any English. Are there any dates you would recommend to avoid at those "main attractions"? (eg. are there school vacations in April?) Any other suggestions are also welcome! regards Gabor http://szabgab.com/ From shlomif at iglu.org.il Sat Feb 12 13:08:40 2011 From: shlomif at iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:08:40 +0200 Subject: [LA.pm] OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201102122308.40457.shlomif@iglu.org.il> Hi Gabor, On Saturday 12 Feb 2011 22:54:08 Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. > > My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) > are planning to visit California in April. Besides the "obvious" places > such as Disney Land, Seaworld, Universal Studio, the San Diego Zoo > and "near by" Grand Canyon I would be happy to get some > recommendations. What might be interesting for kids at that age? > Please take in account that they hardly know any English. > well, in addition to what people here will say, maybe you'd also want to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park as well as San Fransisco, which is a very nice town (for some big values of town) and I was told it's very geeky. I remember being there as a child and it was really great. You didn't mention those, and they seem pretty "obvious" but I hope it's OK. Have fun! Regards, Shlomi Fish (who, like Gabor, is also living in Israel, and has not been to California for a long time) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html Chuck Norris can make the statement "This statement is false" a true one. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . From johnnkirk at gmail.com Sat Feb 12 15:01:25 2011 From: johnnkirk at gmail.com (John Kirk) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:01:25 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. > My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) > are planning to visit California in April. ... I would be happy to get some recommendations. I just sent a rather long, rambling, list of my own suggestions, off-list. If anyone else is interested, I could post it to the list. If so, lemme know. regards, -- John Kirk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From btilly at gmail.com Sat Feb 12 18:10:33 2011 From: btilly at gmail.com (Ben Tilly) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:10:33 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No recommendation on dates. http://www.ocgp.org/visit/balloon/ is kind of fun. (They say they close at 3. Don't believe it, they close when the wind picks up.) Go for a hike in the Santa Monica mountains. If you have time for a car trip, take highway 1 up to Big Sur. It is one of the most beautiful drives in the world. Personally I tend to do it as getting to San Simeon on one day, find a hotel with nice hot spring water. The next day drive up highway 1 to Big Sur. The following day enjoy Big Sur for a bit, then go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. From there head up to the Bay area. I would try to do that during the week to cut down on tourists. Do your kids like natural history? The Page museum at the La Brea tar pits is interesting. Also you can go to the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles. (But if you're going to San Francisco, I prefer the California Academy of Sciences.) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. > > My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) > are planning to visit California in April. Besides the "obvious" places > such as Disney Land, Seaworld, Universal Studio, the San Diego Zoo > and "near by" Grand Canyon I would be happy to get some > recommendations. What might be interesting for kids at that age? > Please take in account that they hardly know any English. > > Are there any dates you would recommend to avoid at those > "main attractions"? (eg. are there school vacations in April?) > > Any other suggestions are also welcome! > > regards > ? Gabor > ? http://szabgab.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm > From johnnkirk at gmail.com Sun Feb 13 20:35:48 2011 From: johnnkirk at gmail.com (John Kirk) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:35:48 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Fwd: OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Sawako Leslie and all, Happy to oblige. Here's what I sent off-list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:55 PM On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. > My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) > are planning to visit California in April. Besides the "obvious" places > such as Disney Land, Seaworld, Universal Studio, the San Diego Zoo > and "near by" Grand Canyon I would be happy to get some > recommendations. What might be interesting for kids at that age? > Please take in account that they hardly know any English. > If you do plan to get as far North as San Francisco, or thereabouts, I have two suggestions. On the ocean side of the San Francisco peninsula, only a mile or two down the coast, there is a place at the shore where the slopes to the ocean and the winds coming ashore are ideal for hang-gliding, para-gliding and flying radio-controlled, engine-less model gliders. It's always been one of my life-enhancing experiences to watch folks get off work in the mid-afternoon, drive their VW minibusses to the parking lot, unfold their hang gliders and step off the cliff and simply fly for hours on end, up and down the coast, higher and higher and, when tired of this, fly lower and step back onto the cliff and drive home. At Monterey, South of San Francisco, there's an awesome public aquarium that I've never seen anything like. The Monterey Bay has absolutely unique habitat for flora and fauna of the ocean, so the research center, there, associated with the aquarium does wonderful work. The coastline of California -- especially for many miles near Monterey -- is just awesome. Coves, offshore rock formations, the Torrey Pines and other flora. In Southern California, where I grew up, I have some (awfully dated) suggestions. There's a day hike I used to love, in the desert just past Palm Springs North of the town called Indio. It's a County Park, and called, I believe, Painted Canyon. I just relocated back to Southern California after being away for thirty years, so I haven't been back to that location recently to see how it's fared, being so close, by freeway, to "civilization". There's also a place in the desert North of the L.A. area called Vasquez Rocks. I loved it as a kid and, back then, it was owned privately and operated as a day-and-overnite car-camping site. Kids can climb under and around a huge natural rock formation that is reputed to have been the hideout of the bandit, Vasquez, back in the day. I haven't been there recently, either, but understand it's still available. My father was the curator for ten years in the forties and fifties of the Southwest Museum, where there's a light-rail stop now. I haven't seen it lately, and have heard it's been ransacked by bureaucrats, but it might still be interesting casually. There's a horizontal, long pedestrian tunnel with dioramas, leading to an elevator up to the hilltop museum. It always used to be a wonderful kids introduction to the Southwest Indians of this several-state area. The San Diego Zoo used to be the best one I've ever seen. Haven't been there lately, either. Sorry to ramble on, but I'm back here because I've missed it so. Feel free to get in touch anytime, by email or phone. 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He is a great fan of http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew If you have any ideas in that direction that would be super awesome! regards Gabor From jleader at alumni.caltech.edu Tue Feb 15 11:01:01 2011 From: jleader at alumni.caltech.edu (Jeremy Leader) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:01:01 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Fwd: OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4D5ACD6D.500@alumni.caltech.edu> I believe Vasquez Rocks is now a county park. It'll also probably be oddly familiar, because literally thousands of movies, TV shows, and commercials have been filmed there over the years, and the rock formations are very distinctive. Another interesting natural area is Channel Islands National Park. The islands are reachable by boat from Ventura; there are one or two companies that run day trips to the closest islands. There's also Catalina Island, closer to LA, which is partly developed and partly nature preserves. Filmmaking is a relatively hard thing to catch, because while there are always crews filming all over Los Angeles, they don't publicize their locations. I've heard that Warner Brothers and Paramount both offer tours of their studios and backlots, but I don't know much about them. There are some smaller aquaria in Los Angeles that I actually like better than the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Aquarium of the Pacific, in Long Beach, is only a little smaller than Monterey. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, in Long Beach, is quite a bit smaller (and less expensive), but very interesting. I'd second the recommendation for the Southwest Museum, it has a fantastic collection of local native american artifacts, but I believe it's closed. It's apparently been merged administratively with the Autry Musuem, which is more about the fictional concept of "the West" (i.e. lots of old Hollywood cowboy movie artifacts, etc.). This year, my kids' school district (maybe 10K students) has spring break the first full week of April. Los Angeles Unified School District (700K students) has spring break the 3rd full week of April. Other districts will probably vary; I'd guess many will have their breaks before or after Easter, the 3rd or 4th full week of April. -- Jeremy Leader jleader at alumni.caltech.edu On 02/13/2011 08:35 PM, John Kirk wrote: > Hi Sawako Leslie and all, > > Happy to oblige. Here's what I sent off-list. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:55 PM > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gabor Szabo > wrote: > > I hope you will forgive me for the off-topic question. > My family (kids 9 and 13, my wife and myself) > are planning to visit California in April. Besides the "obvious" places > such as Disney Land, Seaworld, Universal Studio, the San Diego Zoo > and "near by" Grand Canyon I would be happy to get some > recommendations. What might be interesting for kids at that age? > Please take in account that they hardly know any English. > > > If you do plan to get as far North as San Francisco, or thereabouts, I have > two suggestions. > > On the ocean side of the San Francisco peninsula, only a mile or two down the > coast, there is a place at the shore where the slopes to the ocean and the winds > coming ashore are ideal for hang-gliding, para-gliding and flying > radio-controlled, engine-less model gliders. It's always been one of my > life-enhancing experiences to watch folks get off work in the mid-afternoon, > drive their VW minibusses to the parking lot, unfold their hang gliders and step > off the cliff and simply fly for hours on end, up and down the coast, higher and > higher and, when tired of this, fly lower and step back onto the cliff and drive > home. > > At Monterey, South of San Francisco, there's an awesome public aquarium that > I've never seen anything like. The Monterey Bay has absolutely unique habitat > for flora and fauna of the ocean, so the research center, there, associated with > the aquarium does wonderful work. > > The coastline of California -- especially for many miles near Monterey -- is > just awesome. Coves, offshore rock formations, the Torrey Pines and other flora. > > In Southern California, where I grew up, I have some (awfully dated) suggestions. > > There's a day hike I used to love, in the desert just past Palm Springs North > of the town called Indio. It's a County Park, and called, I believe, Painted > Canyon. I just relocated back to Southern California after being away for > thirty years, so I haven't been back to that location recently to see how it's > fared, being so close, by freeway, to "civilization". > > There's also a place in the desert North of the L.A. area called Vasquez > Rocks. I loved it as a kid and, back then, it was owned privately and operated > as a day-and-overnite car-camping site. Kids can climb under and around a huge > natural rock formation that is reputed to have been the hideout of the bandit, > Vasquez, back in the day. I haven't been there recently, either, but understand > it's still available. > > My father was the curator for ten years in the forties and fifties of the > Southwest Museum, where there's a light-rail stop now. I haven't seen it > lately, and have heard it's been ransacked by bureaucrats, but it might still be > interesting casually. There's a horizontal, long pedestrian tunnel with > dioramas, leading to an elevator up to the hilltop museum. It always used to be > a wonderful kids introduction to the Southwest Indians of this several-state area. > > The San Diego Zoo used to be the best one I've ever seen. Haven't been there > lately, either. > > Sorry to ramble on, but I'm back here because I've missed it so. Feel free > to get in touch anytime, by email or phone. I'll be happy to help or host in > any way I can. > > regards, -- John Kirk > (267) 882-7777 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm mailing list > Losangeles-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm From merlyn at stonehenge.com Wed Feb 16 10:49:09 2011 From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:49:09 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Fwd: OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: <4D5ACD6D.500@alumni.caltech.edu> (Jeremy Leader's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:01:01 -0800") References: <4D5ACD6D.500@alumni.caltech.edu> Message-ID: <86sjvnke6y.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Leader writes: Jeremy> Filmmaking is a relatively hard thing to catch, because while Jeremy> there are always crews filming all over Los Angeles, they don't Jeremy> publicize their locations. Well, somebody must be figuring out, or http://www.onlocationvacations.com/ would be pretty empty. As an example, for Feb 16 in LA, they list: ?Breaking In, starring Christian Slater, is filming at 544 Mateo St (7:00 A.M. ? 10:00 P.M.). ?CSI: Miami is filming at 618 S Spring St (6:30 A.M. ? 10:00 P.M.). ?The Event is filming at 506 S. Grand Ave (7:00 A.M. ? 12:00 A.M.). ?House is filming at B&B Hardware in Los Angeles. (Thanks @mj1985) ?J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is filming at 617 S Olive St (7:00 A.M. ? 10:00 P.M.) and 506 S. Grand Ave (7:00 A.M. ? 7:00 P.M.). ?Law & Order: L.A. is filming at 1201 W 5th St (7:00 A.M. ? 10:00 P.M.). ?The Mentalist is filming at Greystone Mansion. (via @goforlocation) ?Southland is filming at 1007 ? Alpine St (7:00 A.M. ? 10:00 P.M.). They are also filming at the 101 and 110 interchange. (via @goforlocation) FYI: It sounds like The Amazing Spider-Man is likely filming in studio. According to a recent casting call, they are filming at ?Peter?s Midtown High?. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion From szabgab at gmail.com Wed Feb 16 11:08:47 2011 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:08:47 +0200 Subject: [LA.pm] Fwd: OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: <86sjvnke6y.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <4D5ACD6D.500@alumni.caltech.edu> <86sjvnke6y.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Leader writes: > > Jeremy> Filmmaking is a relatively hard thing to catch, because while > Jeremy> there are always crews filming all over Los Angeles, they don't > Jeremy> publicize their locations. > > Well, somebody must be figuring out, or > http://www.onlocationvacations.com/ would be pretty empty. Oh I broke that. 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp-content/cache/supercache/www.onlocationvacations.com//index.html.gz on this server. :-( but thanks for the link, I'll try later Gabor From migtek at gmail.com Fri Feb 18 14:05:38 2011 From: migtek at gmail.com (Miguel Hernandez) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:05:38 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] Fwd: OT: Visiting California with family In-Reply-To: References: <4D5ACD6D.500@alumni.caltech.edu> <86sjvnke6y.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> Message-ID: Hello folks. I'm a huge fan of hidden gems. Having grown up here in LA, I can tell you there's TONS! -LA Arboretum (Arcadia, next to Santa Anita Racetrack) -> Fantasy Island was filmed here. Walk amongst the peacocks! -Calif. Museum of Science & Industry (LA, near USC) -> OMG! A must see. Interesting displays & interactive awesomeness for young children all the way to older adults -Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach) -> Just simply awesome. -San Pedro -> Ports O' Call, an aquarium & the finest (yet amazingly cheap) fresh crab in all of LA!: http://www.sanpedro.com/spcom/expharb.htm -LA Dodgers baseball game (LA next to Downtown) -> Take in a nice sporting event -LA Lakers or Clippers basketball game (Downtown LA) -> Take in a nice sporting event. Kids can say they saw Kobe Bryant or Blake Griffin play live! -Drive up PCH (start in Santa Monica, north to Malibu) -> A fantastic drive, especially during sunset. -Camp @Leo Carrillo State Beach (just north of Malibu & Zuma) -> You can camp under the stars next to the beach. -Legoland (northern San Diego) -> Not sure if the LA Children's Museum is still around (loved it when i was a kid tho) but Legoland reminds me a LOT of it. Interactive games for the kids to play & enjoy. -Traveltown (LA near Griffith Park/LA Zoo) -> Loved going to this as a kid. You could ride a little train around too. Great fun & didn't feel like you were in LA at all: http://www.ci.la.ca.us/RAP//grifmet/tt/information.htm -Downtown LA -> Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Olvera Street, Disney Concert Hall, the Museum District (where the Downtown LA ArtWalk happens) /end braindump There's a lot more things, depending on what you, your wife & the kids are into. Hope that helps. --miguel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naterajj at gmail.com Thu Feb 24 13:45:49 2011 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan J. Natera) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:45:49 -0800 Subject: [LA.pm] SCALE is this weekend! Message-ID: Hi Folks, Don't forget that the Southern California Linux Expo will be this weekend at the Hilton Hotel by LAX There will be 2 Perl related talks, both on Sunday * Take Advantage of Modern Perl by chromatic http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/take-advantage-modern-perl * Pontificating on Perl Profiling by Lisa Hagemann: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/presentations/pontificating-perl-profiling If you didn't get your badge yet, remember you can get a 50% discount by using coupon code PMONG Come say hi to us on Booth #90 and make sure to pick up a copy of chromatic Modern Perl book. Hope to see you there! Juan Natera