Ted Leung on the air : Bainbridge Blogger Bash

Ted Leung on the air
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...

2005年5月01日

Our family had a great time hosting the first Bainbridge Blogger's Bash. Chris, Chip, Mike, and Phillipe have the full lowdown. A few people commented on my burned arm (I no longer need the gauze bandage, so it's pretty glaring). I did the good host thing and circulated around. I amost did not recognize Dave Henry due to his beard -- it's been a while since I saw him last, but I'm looking forward to some of the stuff that he's working on.

I was particularly interested in meeting Adrian Sampson, author of iChat Auto-Reply, NIce to know that there are some other open source Mac hackers on the island, even if they are "young". It was amusing when Adrian asked if I knew his friend Sarah Gould, who also happens to be young. Sarah is part of our bi-weekly Bainbridge Island "Geeks" reading group, and I definitely know her. She wasn't able to make it, but I'm looking forward to getting both of them together into a room. Adrian, Dave, and Phillipe were engaged in interesting and philosophically oriented discussion about open source, communities and so on, which I injected a comment into as I was passing by to feed Elisabeth her dinner.

Mike brought his PSP and (accidentally) induced some depression:

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At the top is Mike's PSP. At the bottom is a Newton MessagePad 2100, which I worked on while I was at Apple. I should have thought to open the lid on the Newt so that that full depression could be displayed. The difference in size and weight should be obvious. The differences in the displays, the 802.11b, and the retail price?

On the whole, it was a totally enjoyable evening.

[23:36] | [places/us/wa/bainbridge_island] | # | TB | F | G | 2 Comments | Other blogs commenting on this post

Newton: I've had a 2100 for a number of years and a 120 before that. Stymied by the constant crappiness of all the handwriting recognition systems to come to all PDAs after the newton I've wished apple would re-release the newtonos under a license people could try to advance and augment. A newton in the form factor of the psp would be near divine. Some years ago I had a correspondence with Larry Yeager about the newton os and newer pda devices - he seemed to say that apple would probably never let the newton os out as the hwr system was considered one of the 'crown jewels'. If you ever have any information to the contrary I'd love to be given a little hope.
thanks,
-sv
Posted by Seth Vidal at Mon May 2 07:00:32 2005

Oh man I would have love to come. I am just over across the bridge here in Kitsap propper. Fire me off an email the next time you have a blog get-together.
Posted by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at Mon May 9 15:53:20 2005

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