[TIP] [OT] Goats of PyCon

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Fri Feb 26 11:59:08 PST 2010


Terry Peppers wrote:
>> What's with the goats at the PyCon 2010 Testing in Python Open Space?
>>     
>
> Already answered.
>
>   
>> I mean, goats are, in and of themselves, hilarious animals, which fit with
>> the hilarity that was TiP Open Space. So although I'd understand if there is
>> no reason, I'm wondering if there's a back story.
>>     
>
> I mentioned this in my writeup on PyCon on my blog:
> http://www.swordstyle.com/blog2/?p=1822
>
> But so you don't have to read the whole thing:
>
> ... when I’m doing my slides I normally come to points where I have
> the words: Why/How/Where
> on them … and traditionally I try to go with some related image to
> whatever I’m talking about.
> For some odd reason, I typed into Flickr “confused animals” and lo and
> behold I found some
> pictures of some goats. So I naively began adding them to my presentations.
>
>   
I clearly should have named my talk Tests and TestaBillyGoats....

--Ned.
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