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After PyCon, there was a survey asking people to list their three favorite talks. The results have my talk on Yarn getting the 9th-most votes, out of the 62 talks at PyCon. Thanks, everyone! I’m glad you liked it.

Slides from the talk are now available on the Yarn website. Your choice of openoffice, pdf, or flash.

The slides don’t contain everything I said in my presentation; I’m a believer in the less-is-more theory of PowerPoint slides. Check out Ted Leung’s notes for more details from the talk.

While at the JotSpot office two weeks ago, I was introduced to the addictive toy/exercise device known as the PowerBall. Here’s a photo of me giving it a whirl. Note the poor form - my pinky finger is slipping. Later in the week I started to get better at it, and eventually broke 11K RPM, which got my name onto the PowerBall high scores section of Reuben’s whiteboard.

update: A commenter noted that even after going to the powerballs.com website he had no idea what a PowerBall was. Here’s some background information. The PowerBall is a gyroscopic device that you spin by rotating your wrist. With a little practice, you can really get it humming, but it’s hard work since the gyroscopic forces tend to pull it out of your hand. The part that makes it really addictive (and competitive) is that there’s an LCD on top that displays your max RPMs. Using the PowerBall quickly becomes a contest to see who can get it to spin the fastest, and for each person to top their current high score.