Deep’s “not so evil” lair

I have been toying with the idea of giving a little Ruby/Ruby on Rails presentation at work. If I get around to it, I am thinking of giving vnc2swf a try to show how quick and easy it is to set up a working application or just to illustrate certain features of the language.  Its easy to demo stuff when you have access to an interactive shell as is the case with Python and Ruby.

I feel it is great to have an interactive presentation but I have sat through many a presentation where the presenter was running commands, clicking on buttons and selecting options. It is awesome during the presentation to see and appreciate second hand as how easy or difficult a certain tool is. However, once I try to replicate same thing on my own, it takes me a while to replicate what the presenter did. I think having an interactive presentation recorded might aid an audience better post presentation. Will post if I ever get around to it. But if you have had good experiences with something similar, please feel free to comment.

The Philly Zoo opened its doors for members only for an extra hour in the morning today. Benita took the opportunity. It was wonderful! Most of the animals were awake. We even saw tiger cubs playing with their mother and Lions mating (did not take a picture, Lions need their privacy too). I saw a Lynx for the first time. All I knew about the Lynx prior to this was that they are medium sized cats who happened to have a web browser named after them. Ah the good old days of text based browsing!

Benita and I had taken my parents and a friend whale watching to Gloucester MA this summer but I never posted any pictures or videos. Better late than never I guess.
It seems like we might just make this an annual affair. It is wonderful watching these humongous mammals in the wild. In addition to a half a dozen humpbacks we saw what I thought were 50 Atlantic White Sided Dolphins. The Marine Biologist on board mentioned it was more like 150 to 200 dolphins.

The whale in the videos and pictures was going through its feeding routine creating a flurry of activity. It seems that is what attracted the dolphins.

I wish I had a steadier hand though. The new Panasonic Lumix Z-3 camera is a fairly good camera though both in it’s resolution and zoom. The pictures and videos came out good. Any bad pictures should be attributed to the photographer in my case.