[Distutils] Python people want CPAN and how the latter came about

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Dec 28 00:52:32 CET 2009


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david.lyon at preisshare.net wrote:
>> ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hmm ... I think you meant "bikeshedding" (energetic discussion of
>> meaningless details) -- "woodshedding" *is* an actual slang term, but
>> one that originated among musicians, meaning "to practice one's skills
>> alone" (i.e., to go off to a woodshed where no one can hear you).
> 
> Sometimes a woodshed in the country is the best place to write music.
> There's a special character that you get in the music that isn't possible
> living in the city.

On another face of living in the country:  the woodshed is also where
recalcitrant youth receive their more-or-less-well-earned beatings.


Tres.
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