---
title: "My Son - Itamar the Snake Tamer"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/7/29/my-son-itamar-the-snake-tamer.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/7/29/my-son-itamar-the-snake-tamer.html"
published: "2008-07-29T05:16:24"
updated: "2008-07-29T05:16:24"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "He was at the zoo today, and all I got was this scary picture. Good parenting, mom!"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# My Son - Itamar the Snake Tamer

By Roy Osherove July 29, 2008 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 29, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/0077_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_MySonItamartheSnakeTamer_D7D5_image_thumb.png)

He was at the zoo today, and all I got was this scary picture. Good parenting, mom!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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