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Sysadmin to Go

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^ Clay Baenziger of the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group poses as a “sysadmin to go”.

In conjunction with CommunityOne, we held a boot camp for OpenSolaris User Group leaders, bringing representatives in from around the world to share knowledge on how to create, grow, and support their groups.

We started off the morning with the Go Game, which I highly recommend as both a team building activity and a great way to get out, move around, and see some of the city.

The game includes creative challenges which must be documented in photos or video. I don’t remember what the above photo’s theme was meant to be, but Clay in the delivery truck is just so darned cute… And apparently it was a challenge: the delivery guy agreed to the photo, but kept a very close watch to be sure that this wasn’t just a ploy to steal his packages.

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Unkind Cuts

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A prominent part of the CommunityOne/JavaOne decor was large photos like this, including a painted mural featuring James Gosling at a diner. I didn’t recognize most of the people, but was amused to see a familiar face at the registration booths. Didn’t realize til I looked at the photo today that they’d placed Simon Phipps under the “Alumni” registration sign.

Then there was this on the Atlassian booth:

so more Sun

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The Italian Adam

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This week I was in Grenoble, France, filming for Sun. Enrico drove over from Lecco to join me on Friday, and we spent the weekend there together. It was too cold to do much roaming around outside, so we went to Grenoble’s fine arts museum, which features a small but impressive collection of paintings, arranged by date and country.

Even as I approached it from a distance, I knew this “God Chastising Adam and Eve” had to be by an Italian painter, using Italian models.

I mean, just look at that Adam. His entire expression and posture are eloquently Italian, a cross between a shrug and Che ci vuoi fare? E’ stata lei! (“What do you want? It was her!”)

Yup, sure enough: Domenico Zampieri, aka il Domenichino.

picture source: Wikimedia Commons

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