Princess Rant
No. I’m not claiming to be a princess. Yes. I’m going to rant.
For the past 2-3 weeks I’ve been seeing Princess Diana crap all over the place. She’s on all these magazine covers, there are “Special Diana Issues” on the shelves, her picture is all over the place, and she’s popped up in TV ads here and there. I’m tired of her. She’s been dead for almost a full decade now! Let it go. She wasn’t even an American!!!! If we were in England, I’d suck it up because she was very beloved there.
It just upsets me that we have to commemorate/celebrate/look-back-on/ponder/mourn every little event of her life. It’s like the following days are official PD days:
- Her birthday
- Her death day
- Her marriage day
- Her divorce day
- The birth of her first son
- The birth of her second son
- The birth of her third son
- The day she stubbed her toe on the throne
- The day she was abducted by aliens and replaced with a lizard overlord
- The day it was discovered that she was a lizard overlord, and was subsequently put back into place.
Haven’t we had enough of her? Don’t we Americans have our own celebrities? Aren’t most of them still alive? Isn’t it more interesting to read about a person that is still breathing rather than a person that is probably mostly parchment and bone by now?
We really need to start putting more important people on the cover of our magazines.
Ok. I’m running out of breath, so I’ll stop my rant now…. But I hope you see my point.
SourceForge Community Awards
Here’s some video from the SourceForge Community Awards. After a full day of OSCON, this pretty much captures what my nights were like (except for Monday night.) Yeah… It was THAT MUCH FUN!!!
Here’s the link.
BTW: The guy that filmed all of this, Robin Miller, is a really cool guy. We hung out Friday afternoon while waiting for various things. I was waiting for time to head to the airport, and he was waiting for a ride. We hung out in a Starbucks for a while and talked about the conference. I hope to see him back there again next year.
Oh! Before I forget. You won’t see me in the video. When the two guys were showing off their Tux tattoos (about the 1:30 mark), I was standing off of the shoulder of Robin Miller admiring the tattoos. Kiara… That is the tattoo that I’ve wanted for ages. Yeah. I know. You’ll never let me get it.
