Incidentally, I already had a category for "weather". WTF?

One of the small bits of fallout from using AnyEvent is that we now have a large number of anonymous code references as callbacks, and in our logging code, these all have the same name: __ANON__.

This makes debugging output a little less useful.

In browsing some code in AnyEvent::SMTP, I happened across the trick of locally setting the __ANON__ typeglob to the name you want to use used in stacktraces and the like:

my $var = sub { local *__ANON__ = 'What::ever::you::want'; ... };

So, this is kinda ugly, and I couldn't find any official documentation of it, so I went looking around, and found Sub::Name, which is a module to make this a little more palatable. Now we can do:

my $var = subname 'What::ever::you::want' => sub { ... };

Still perhaps not beautiful, but not totally covered in warts, either.

Now to go retrofit this onto all of our code...

I kind of wonder what I'd make of it now, because the person behind the show is someone I might have liked to meet.

But I also got to fly, for real, yesterday and today. Video is forthcoming.

Mind you, I am now contractually unable to make fun of any of my flyers if, say, they can't tell their right from their left when we're working together—when you do some of this stuff, it is impossible to tell which way is up, down, sideways, whatever.

It was amazing.

Overall, I thought the piece was pretty good.

Most of the things that Ms. Swartz writes about John—and yes, everyone in the Anusara community calls him John; it seems like name-dropping until you meet him, and then it seems pretty natural—ring true to me. But not all.

I've attended 8 events with John, and while I certainly agree that he has his groupies, I've never seen anyone attempt to give him their hotel room key, which the article succeeds in making sound like a commonplace occurance.

I also diagree with the characterization of John as "an easygoing guy with an easygoing yoga — except when it comes to business."

If you go to an Anusara Teacher Training with John, you will understand that he's not really all that easygoing. His expectations of his teachers—especially of the Certified Teachers, but of anyone who is attending one of his teacher trainings—are very high. He wants the people he trains to be teachers to be the best of the best.

I would be interested to have gotten more of the context surrounding Judith Lassater's comments; they seem very negative, but I wonder if there was more to them that made a different point. I also wonder if they were specifically directed at John or were just about the commercialization of yoga in general.

Incidentally, that John draws a salary of $100K a year doesn't bother me one bit. John's been teaching professionally for a quarter of a century, and is internationally prominent. Prominent enough, in fact, to get profiled in the New York Times Magazine. I put to you the question: in what other profession in this culture would that salary be considered excessive for someone in his position?

I think these decade birthdays always loom especially large because I'm a decade baby.

Over the last week I've been considering what I'm going dedicate myself to for the next 90 days, so that perhaps by the time I actually hit 40, they will feel more like habits and rituals and be easy to maintain.

One that I've actually already started on is blogging every day. It doesn't have to be significant or insightful or, I suppose, even coherent. Perhaps it will just be a picture of the latte I have in the afternoon, or whatever coding problem I solved (or didn't ;) that day.

It's more about the consistency of writing every day, because I also want to start keeping a (private) journal. For the last 40 years, I've mostly been able to operate off memory alone. But I know that's not going to last forever, and I've probably already forgotten a lot of stuff I would like to have written down (though, of course, I can't be sure). So writing daily, both for public and private edification.

A related desire is that I want to be more diligent in keeping track of what I get done. I have a lot of days where at the end, I feel like I haven't gotten a lot done. Objectively, this isn't true, but I don't record it anywhere. In short, there's no evidence, it's totally ephemeral. So I want to be more diligent about knowing how I filled my days.

I need to reassert the habits of self-care. Eating well is an important part of that—I could stand to lose a little girth right at the moment—but even more importantly, I want to return to a daily meditation practice, a daily yoga practice, and other daily maintenance. I've gotten away from all of those in the last six months, and I'm very aware of it. 90 days is long enough to help me get over the hump in making these back into habits.

I want to get out of my music listening rut. It seems like I have a lot of music that has gotten short shrift—played a couple of times, and then dropped for more familiar things. Each day I want to find the time to listen to a whole album I don't know well from beginning to end.

Perhaps other things will present themselves. Anyway, it's going to be a fun time.