About me

Who is Deron? Read my biography and also my resume. Discover which books I'm reading or enjoy my favorite quotations. Also read about my Limited Edition 1997 Supra Turbo or my water-cooled computer. My temperament is most closely an ISTP, sometimes called the crafter.

Email me at deron.meranda@gmail.com

I've been on the Internet since 1989, in some form or other (about 21 years). You can snoop on my Wikipedia contributions or my Slashdot postings. I also regularly post on the Fedora User's List and the mod_python list. I also contribute to the Moin Moin wiki engine.

What's new

• 2009-07-24: Dinner and wine at the Meranda-Nixon Winery in Ohio.
• 2009-07-05: Nuclear fireworks, celebrating Independence Day by the nuclear Zimmer power plant.
• 2009-04-28: Construction notes and photos for my Coraline-inspired mystery box.
• 2009-04-21: Nighttime photos of campfires and spark trails.
• 2009-04-20: Photos of bowling under blacklights.
• 2009-04-04: Some photos of bees collecting pollen.
• 2009-02-18: I've posted links to my favorite online suppliers of materials for crafting and project needs.
• 2009-02-18: You can now subscribe to changes I make on this site using my atom feed.
• 2009-01-01: The gallery of my best photographs of 2008.
• 2008-12-17: Released python demjson version 1.4.

Index of everything back to 1999...

By topic

• stories: Collections of my own writings and my favorite stories.
• python: The Python programming language. Source code, tutorials, hints, and more.
• reviews: Critiquing products
• photographs: See what I saw; a few of my best pictures.
• case mods: Read about how to build and modify a creative PC case.
• ruminations and essays: My thoughts, essays, and other articles.
• computer games, and in particular, nethack.
• data, facts, and wordlists: A medley of interesting data tables, mostly linguistic.
• links: My choice for the best websites of the Internet.