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On 9/7/12 10:34 AM, "Lynda" <[email protected]> wrote: >I've had an O'Reilly shirt for Programming Perl, 2nd Edition, for years. >Okay, okay, I have a lot of O'Reilly shirts (don't we all?), but this >one is special. > >For one, it's signed. I recall a party, with an ice sculpture of a >camel, and the three authors sitting around (well, really standing, not >sitting) and signing their names on shirts with sharpies. I'm not sure >that Larry was there, and yet, his signature seems to be on the shirt, >so he must have been, right? Unless, of course, it had been signed >already (a possibility). > >It's a nice relic of those days, but there's something about the shirt >that has always bothered me, and I could never quite place what it was. >It's taken me this long to realize that the book on the shirt is *pink*. >Yes, that's what I said, not blue, pink. I no longer own a 2nd edition >(Perl 5 was so very long ago), but I'm pretty sure that Perl books have >always been blue. > >Does anyone else remember this shirt? I know at least Tom is on the >mailing list, and I thought that Randy was also. I've also considered >giving it to the EFF to auction off (and may still do that), since it's >never been worn (I just couldn't). > >-- >"Beware of bugs in the above code; >I have only proved it correct, not tried it." > > Donald Knuth >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
