A journey through the world of microbreweries, spirits, homebrewing, wine making, School and parenthood.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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“While
I don't claim to be a great programmer, I try to imitate one. An important
trait of the great ones is constructive laziness. They know that you get an A
not for effort but for results, and that it's almost always easier to start
from a good partial solution than from nothing at all.”
Well I do not know what was actually going for this Weeks Blog Assignment. What I found rooting around the Internet was some mighty fine reading though. At least it was right up my weirdness 'O' meter alley. I can really dig this guy. His ideas are not too radical but kind of makes learning Linux really fun. The explanatory theory of most Big Corporate software programs being built like a cathedral. You know a lot of time and thought put behind it. And Something Open Source Free-Ware like Linux being like a Bazaar is awesome. I can totally see it. Having all the user be the debuggers or just old hackers that are very opinionated about their software. Anyways I think it really explains the culture or shall I say community to be PC when referring to LINUX....
A little more about us That is Followed up in the Blog.....
We both grew up in the Wine Country of Northern California. One might assume we would be more interested in wine than beer because of this. However, Northern California has a great microbrewery industry too.
In addition to brewing and wine making, we are learning sign language. We plan to use some basic signs to help our daughter learn to communicate before she can talk. We’re already working on “Momma”, “Daddy”, “milk” and “eat”. When she masters those basic signs, we’ll move on to more words, like “play”, “poop”, and “cat”. Several studies have been done showing that children who learn to sign develop language skills earlier and do better in school. However, that’s not our primary reason for teaching her to sign. We're doing it for selfish reasons; it’s much easier to understand what exactly a toddler wants if she squeezes her fist (milk) than if she’s just crying. We want to be able to respond to her needs quicker, so she won’t feel that she has to cry to get want she wants. Hopefully, this will help avoid having her become a whiney child. Children who whine in public are some of the most annoying things in the world.
We are both in school right now, studying for a Paralegal degree and computer sciences degree. We met while working on an ambulance as paramedics. Our company shut down and we moved to Reno and got married. We expanded our family with 3 cats and 4 fish, then in September 2008 our beautiful daughter joined us making our family complete for now.
Besides brewing and wine making, we don’t have many hobbies, mostly from lack of time. Taking care of a toddler, full time school, and taking care of each other keeps us pretty busy. We take most of our courses online so we can be home with each other as much as possible. So, we hope you enjoy reading about our adventures with making and enjoying beer and wine. This is not a full time effort, so entries may be few and far between at times.
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