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If programming languages were religions
http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html
Terribly funny, my only critique being that unlike Voodoo, Perl actually works in the hands of a capable practitioner.
And I would like to make one addition:
Unitarian Universalism is like pseudocode: it conveys the general idea of what the program should do, and it's OK if ( Read more... ) -
If I ever start a band
I think it will be limited to two instruments: Chapman Stick (http://www.stick.com/) and Zendrum (http://www.zendrum.com/). -
Want to watch evolution
(And I don't mean the movie ( Read more... ) -
Movies that miss the obvious
Saw "Australia" last night, very nice, but they really missed out on one thing: At no point did they include the song "Tojo" by the Hudu Gurus.
And the song by Elton John in the end credits is a total theft of "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel. -
You provide the punchline:
Pocahontas, Ariel, and a Jedi walk into a bar... -
Language Bashing
For the first time ever, I've found something that Perl can't do easily: Generating a WSDL file. My boss says that Java is an acceptable programming language, and that I should find a toolset that lets me write web services in Java with WSDL files. I found one, and am now learning Java, thanks to a well-placed $20 at Half-Price Books.
Wow is this a ( Read more... ) -
Why geeks have trouble dating
Anna: (joking) "I'm just an object to you!"
Me: "No, you're my favorite instance of the base class." -
The soundtrack of...
...the company I work for should include the song "Part of the Process" by Morcheeba.
And "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai, but that one is too easy, since they played it at the holiday party last year. -
Calling all authors, editors, reviewers, readers
And isn't that really just about everybody in the Warped Corps, most of us at least twice.
A few days ago, the ever cool Cory Doctorow mentioned a new project at HarperCollins called "Authonomy".
From what I can tell (and I haven't had enough time to spend on this since I found it), it is a community slush pile. You can upload books you've written ( Read more... )