Sunday, 7. December 2008, 01:36:10
tree lighting, candlelight, West Sonoma County, community ceremony
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I was waiting for the bus in Sebastopol, trying to get back home to Graton, when I noticed a lot of people in various forms of costume-- most pertaining to Christmas themes-- were walking past me at the bus stop. I asked what it was, and they mentioned there was an impending Chistmas Tree liughting ceremony in the square across the street. I decided to blow off that but & catch a later one, so I could experience a community event.
I went from feeling somewhat scrooge-like to feeling a lot better after.
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Monday, 24. November 2008, 21:54:41
Sebastopol, North Bay Ruby User's Group, web application development, O'Reilly Publishers
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As I mentioned in my last post, I've gotten pretty busy the last few days (alternating with bouts of huge depression).
Thursday night, I attended a meetup of the North Bay Ruby Users Group, which is a group of people working with, developing, experimenting-- or just plain learning-- Ruby on Rails, which is an up-and-coming web application development framework, using Ruby as the programming language, and Rails as the framework (Rails can apparently also be used with other programming "languages" like AJAX). I was having trouble getting my Rails Server to run on my laptop, and I received hands-on assistance in working out the bugs. Now I have to learn how to use the framework to develop web applications.
I'm just getting started in this endeavor.
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Monday, 30. July 2007, 22:15:04
Sebastopol, Snoopy, Sonoma County, Peanuts
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New picture album, featuring the town of Santa Rosa, self-proclaimed home of the late Charles Schultz, creator of the famous
Peanuts cartoon series (
Charlie Brown, for those unfortunate souls who live in countries
far far away, without access to our fine American™ Cultural Traditions)
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self-proclaimed, anyway, by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. Schultz himself lived in Sebastopol, located one town over. And EVERYONE knows that Snoopy drinks ROOT BEER.)
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red wine, indeed...
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