Right now (as I am typing this) Ned Batchelder is giving his “A Whirlwind Excursion through C Extensions” talk at the Boston Python Meetup. This is a talk which he will be giving at PyCon; a talk I argued for as part of the program committee (with full conflict of interest information given). It is scheduled against some other very good talks (I know, I did the schedule, mores the fool me). I did want to have a chance to see this talk before PyCon in the small atmosphere that is Beta House, and have a chance to give feedback and ask more questions than I ever will later on. I feel like I am failing here. The snow was just the last straw on top of an already insane schedule.

Besides, why travel 30min to see and help a friend when we can both travel half a continent in a few weeks and not talk to each other there!

So here is a public apology of sorts to Ned. I hope we can connect at PyCon and have a chance to chat for more than 5min.

With luck the video of the presentation will be put up on ustream soon like the James Tauber Pinax one was (James is 15min away from me, same story).