@brainwane Thank you for introducing @jamey and me! We weren't able to pick any serviceberries because it's slightly too late in the season, but we did have a great conversation and enjoy the native plants at Carnegie Mellon! #CMU#Pittsburgh
Sorry to learn of the passing of Prof. Alan Waggoner here in #Pittsburgh a couple of days ago.
He was an all round terrific person, besides being a great scientist. He developed the #Fluorescent Cyanine dyes (Cy3 Cy5 and others in the series) that had a significant impact on biological #imaging , in the 1990s
Hah! Just when I was complaining yesterday about the lack of regional solar to absorb some of that hot day electricity demand peak, along comes Summer Lee digging up $2m to put a solar farm on the nine mile run slag heap area.
Hey folks, one last entreaty before the #PyConUS hashtag trails off.
We could really use your financial support. Our non-profit #ScholarshipFund is the travel sponsor for #PyCon US 2024.
We've recouped only 4% of what we gave. We're here to serve & happy to do it but could really use some boosts across the fediverse to drive donors so we can do it again.
Pls donate to help more people experience #Pittsburgh through tech conference travel:
Many thanks to @mariatta, @lorenipsum, the rest of the @pycon organizing team and @ThePSF staff, and everyone else who made PyCon US in Pittsburgh possible and awesome. See you again in 2025!
So far, #PyConUS 2024 in #Pittsburgh has hands down been the best ever PyCon for railfans. Got conf lunch on the third floor balcony just in time for a Norfolk Southern consist to roll by.
Decided to give the kids a bit of a treat and perhaps support the not kids anymore but young band nevertheless - #GretaVanFleet playing at PPG Arena in #Pittsburgh
Up in the nosebleed with kids (partners enjoying quiet time at home). Opening act Mirador is pretty good.
Oof! Break now before Greta Van Fleet are on.
Looking forward to it. So far, especially with opener act 2, realizing I'm getting old, would much prefer smaller venue. And less 'noise'
Lol I guess I'm - this morning I was listening to Rosemary Clooney cooking chicken liver curry* - years old
(attached photos are, idk. maybe 1/2-2/3 of the bridges immediately near downtown? There's at least another 5 or 6 not visible crossing the Allegheny on the other side of the skyline, and another just down the Ohio to the left.)
(Other #PyConUS attendees: the jaunt across the river to the inclines is SUPER WORTH IT. Grab nearly any bus or hop over to the old train station near the Westin to catch the light rail.)
#PyCon attendees who are flying into #Pittsburgh have a $2.75 option for getting from the #PIT airport to the convention center: the #28X#bus.
The ticket machine and door to the 28X are just past baggage claim L, on the left side. You can pay cash, buy a reloadable card, or buy a daily/weekly bus pass.
@emocoder De Fer ("dee fair") is one of our favorites. It's in Pittsburgh's vibrant Strip District neighborhood, a 15-minute walk or a 3-minute car ride from the convention center.
They've changed some of the routes, so I ended up on the wrong bus and got off downtown at not my usual spot and had to walk a bit to get to the train station. So here you too can enjoy some nice downtown (or dahntahn as they say in) #Pittsburgh buildings in this lovely blue sky weather
Join #PyData#Pittsburgh for a casual gathering of the local, national, and international PyData community on the sidelines of #PyCon US 2024! Meet up with fellow #DataScience, #MachineLearning, and scientific computing enthusiasts when the world's largest Python conference comes to town.
Went to dinner at smoke taqueria tonight (both the smoked mushroom and grilled cabbage tacos were excellent). But what really made me laugh was their bathroom decor. Zoom in and read the sign.
Aye you could spend a hundred grand on Elon Musk's thing, or you could get a Suzuki Carry and ninety grand's worth of cider and drive around calling yourself the CiderTruck, and we'll see who has more fun
Am I seemingly the ~only person on the Internet who wants a smoke detector with a black casing?
I can only find them from boutique, wired, high-end brands. Nest stopped making the Protect in black years ago, apparently. Owl sells them but my house doesn't have a wired smoke detector system; they're not required in #Pittsburgh.
