Re: see attachment

2001-05-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (enter Birakay) Bikay: CHOPS! I come to defeat you both, old ones! My howitzer-up-arse Hereford attack will prevail! Bikay: Muahahaha! Your feeble strict style cannot defeat me! It is gay! roflmao, damn that almost makes me want to go to the

Re: see attachment

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:38:08 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Unicycling] in the mud is good for you. It builds

Re: see attachment

2001-05-14 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? The plan9 fortune file. It's the mistakes they made while they were developing it. -- yes /dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do -

Re: see attachment

2001-05-14 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it IN AD 1987, PERL WAS BEGINNING. ...and no one was prepared for the INFOBOT

Re: see attachment

2001-05-13 Thread Martin Ling
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've been writing Java?.. Hmm. Now, am I really sad enough to sit down and do a complete bastardisation...?

Re: see attachment

2001-05-13 Thread Martin Ling
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one:

Re: see attachment

2001-05-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Martin

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Martin Ling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Somehow I see

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him having this much spare time. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers?

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Alex Page
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. yeah but with Vampires, and the sword fighting would be carried out in the real world by a young blonde female - see its totally original! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. ObRant (sigh, becoming a habit again): 'Oh, hey! Like, I saw that Antitrust movie! I remember you're one of those Linux guys, so you

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Alex Page wrote: How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth?

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Martin Ling
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:01:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? Y'know, if we

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html -- Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel

Re: see attachment

2001-05-12 Thread Chris Ball
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've been writing Java?.. ~C. -- Chris Ball.

Re: see attachment

2001-05-11 Thread Chris Devers
At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, a travel film, involving Damien-esque programming as a plot device. We can make PIMF (Perl is my Film) tshirts to promote it, even if Randal doesn't like them. It

Re: see attachment

2001-05-11 Thread Alex Page
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Right, so who's going to write a script that parses all of the london.pm traffic and tells us what we need to drink? Alex, what, *read* the bloody thing? -- I ask for so