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Walter and Patty Berglund were the young pioneers of Ramsey Hill—the first college grads to buy a house on Barrier Street since the old heart of St. Paul had fallen on hard times three decades earlier. The Berglunds paid nothing for their Victorian and then killed themselves for ten years renovating it. Early on, some very determined person torched their garage and twice broke into their car before they got the garage rebuilt. Sunburned bikers descended on the vacant lot across the alley to drink Schlitz and grill knockwurst and rev engines at small hours until Patty went outside in sweatclothes and said, “Hey, you guys, you know what?” Patty frightened nobody, but she’d been a standout athlete in high school and college and possessed a jock sort of fearlessness. From her first day in the neighborhood, she was helplessly conspicuous. Tall, ponytailed, absurdly young, pushing a stroller past stripped cars and broken beer bottles and barfed-upon old snow, she might have been carrying all the hours of her day in the string bags that hung from her stroller. Behind her you could see the baby-encumbered preparations for a morning of baby-encumbered errands; ahead of her, an afternoon of public radio, “The Silver Palate Cookbook,” cloth diapers, drywall compound, and latex paint, and then “Goodnight Moon,” then Zinfandel. She was already fully the thing that was just starting to happen to the rest of the street.

BANGKOK (AP) — Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

Another great site that aggregates Perl related blogs

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The following is an edited and updated version of a Moose advocacy bit I wrote on the Google AppEngine for Perl project mailing list quite a while ago. I decided to republish it here since with the recent release of Catalyst 5.8, which uses Moose... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Following matt’s post about people not blogging enough about Perl, I’ve decided to try to post once a week about Perl. So I will start by a series of articles about what we call modern Perl. For this, I will write a simple feed agregator (using Moose, DBIx::Class, KiokuDB), some tests, and a basic frontend (with Catalyst). This article will be split in four parts:

The elegant MVC framework Catalyst will make web development something you had never expected it to be: Fun, rewarding and quick. New Book! Jonathan Rockway's new Catalyst book, published by Packt Publishing, is now available for purchase. Get it now!

According to local sandwich blog breadxbread (which we came across at Mission Mission), somebody stole Mr. Pickle, the beloved Latino, mustard- and mayo-carrying pickle mascot over at Mr. Pickle's Sandwich Shop on 20th Street.

Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage-punk act the Cramps, died Wednesday morning (February 4) due to an existing heart condition, according to a statement from the band's publicist. He was 62.

昨晩、寝ていると、ふと窓の外に気配がする。カーテンは閉まっているのだが、その外に気配がするのである。この部屋は6階で、窓の外は車通りが多い道だ。その時間はおそらく午前3時ごろではないだろうか。いつもは、そんな気配がすれば、起きてカーテンを開けて様子を確かめるのだが、昨晩は妙に寒気がして思いとどまった。というよりも、あまりに恐ろしくてベッドを出られないのである。そのとき、急に過去の記憶が甦った。「こんなことが過去に一度あった」と。おそらくそれほど前のことではない。少なくても5年以内、それも1998年夏から2000年夏までの間の2年のどこかだと思う。当時、実家（都内）に住んでいた私は、夜にベッドから空を見上げていて、とんでもないものを見たのである。それは、上空、真っ黒な空の大きな部分を占める、気配である。よく見ると、真っ暗な空のところどころに、明かりらしきものがある。しばらくすると、事情が見えてきた。そらは、空を覆いつくすような大きさの、平べったい宇宙船のようなものだったのだ。その宇宙船らしきものは、見上げた空（左右に建物があるので、視野角にしてざっと30度ぐらい）の大部分を覆っている。身が凍る思いだった。その後、呆然と立ち尽くしながら空を見上げる自分。何が起きているのか、よく分からない。その後、宇宙船のようなものは、何か活動していたような気がするが、それから後のことはよく覚えていない。話は昨晩に戻る。外の気配に悪寒を感じた自分は、やがて、この記憶を取り戻した。そして、直感的に「同じものが外にある」と思い、カーテンを開けることを拒否してしまったのだ。その後、そのまま隠れるように寝たのだが、夢を見たようだ。内容は覚えていないが、明け方うなされて起きたとき「この話はだれにも話してはいけないものだ」という強烈な思いだけが残っていた。結局、もう一度寝て、朝ふつうに起きたときには、嫌悪感というか不快感はかなり減っていたが、とにもかくにも、これだけの内容を覚えていたので、とりあえず書き留めておこうと思ってこのblogを書いている。実際には、書き始めるまでそれなりの葛藤があったが、もしただの夢なら、後からの笑い話にできる、と思って書き始めて一気に書き終えた。5年ほど前の記憶も、今考えるとそれそのものが夢だったということもあり得る。夢の記憶ということで忘れていたが、同様の夢がトリガーになって急に思い出したということもあるだろう。それとも、宇宙人に肝心な部分の記憶を消されたのだろうか? すべては、夢の中である。

Most shops these days seem to know that using a Version Control System is necessary for the organization of a large software project involving multiple developers.   It’s essential to allow each developer to work on their part of the project and commit the changes to a central repository, which the rest of the developers can then pull down into their working sandbox.  Its an effective way to develop that avoids overwriting of changes, and allows for easy rollback and history.  However, one problem I see over and over again is either lack of branching altogether,  or doing it in a manual way that drifts the branch further out of sync with trunk as time goes on, and then trying to manually merge this with the trunk code when the branch is done.   For those who don’t know, trunk is basically your mainline, in which code can be branched off of for features that won’t interfere with trunk until they are merged at some later point.  This allows for testing changes without bothering other developers, but still being able to keep a commit history.

While getting a sub for lunch today I noticed how horrible most people are at ording a sub sandwich. After working in subshops while going through college and even a little bit after I have come up with rules of thumb to follow to insure good service and even the best possible taste and more...

A small ad for Arcon Structural Engineer Inc. on the bottom of the first page of a test paper in math teacher Tom Farber's Advanced Placement calculus class at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego.

11/24（祝）に東京・汐留にて。JAMSTEC藤倉博士のトーク20分もあり。

シックス・アパート日本法人は、12月2日で会社設立５周年を迎えます。 設立5周年を迎えるにあたり、ブログを盛り上げ、コミュニティを一緒に作ってきたブロガーの方々や、ブログ業界を牽引されてきた関係者の方々とともに、日本におけるブログの軌跡を振り返り、今後のさらなる発展を祝うイベントを開催します。 ブログコミュニティの皆さんと一緒に祝い、これからのブログの未来を語り合いましょう。

Recently, Shepard Fairey and I threw some fundraisers for the Obama campaign. We called them “The Party for Change”. (If you don't know who Shepard is—among many other things—he is the one responsible for the image on the right).