This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Python ur-developer, written , and concerning Web

In response to the deep psychological case-study that is "Beards of Python", I present the Python ur-developer, which is what you get if you average them all together. Next time you find yourself annoyed that urlparse doesn't handle daap:// URLs properly, or find yourself thankful that Python 3.0 is fixing some of your problems, this is the guy to blame or buy beer for. Which of your friends does he most look like? Python ur-developer

Comments

John

Nice, but I would trust the eigenface more!

Tomaž

You would get a much nicer picture if you try to scale and align the photos so that eyes of all people are in the same position.

Something like they do here: http://www.faceresearch.org

sil

Tomaž: yeah, I know. But that would elevate this from a ten-minute hack to something real :-)

gpshead

That photo is about how I feel this morning.

Jeff Waugh

I'm seeing tigert in that image, strangely enough.

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