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Went out to Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro with Baker last night to see $subject.  First time I’ve ever been there, reminds me a lot of 1 2 3 Pleasant St. back in Morgantown.  Fun show, I’ll break it down by band.

Passafire went on first and was my favorite of the three.  Baker turned me on to them a few months back and they were the main reason we went.  His brother is really good friends with the band (get their CD, the first person on their “thank you” list is Sam Baker).  After their set they hung out at their merchandise booth and we went over and chatted with them for a while.  When Baker told them who he was they went nuts, it was funny.  I picked up their CD “Submersible” and snatched a t-shirt too.  Now I’ll have something to wear besides 311 shirts.

Supervillains went on next.  They were energetic and fun, reminded me of a reggae/ska version of Blink 182, in that if they had the cash for a giant flaming rig of the word “fuck” at their show, they would certainly do it.

Pepper was the headliner.  I had seen them a few years back in Columbus, OH when they opened for The Wailers and 311.  I really dug them back then, and they were still a lot of fun this time too but I enjoyed the uniqueness of the other two bands a bit more.

Let it be known that this blog is alive, with minimal fanfare.  Yay.

Few notable tech things going on today.  I built and submitted the new upstream version of PyYAML (3.06) to F8 and F9 today.  Look for that to land in the near future.  I also put in a CVS request to have EPEL branches for EL-4 and EL-5 added to both PyYAML and python-netaddr.  Once I get python-netaddr into EPEL I’m going to use it to implement some neat stuff in cobbler… stay tuned for that one.