On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:11:50PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I must have imagined London.pm.
Thank God! It was all a horrible, horrible dream!!!
Alex
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"Four pints of milk, a turkey baster and some plastic
tubing, that's all you need."
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$a || $b ) && $c && $d;
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tubing, that's all you need."
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:46:33PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> o The Doggetts Coat and Arms (by the river)
It has to be said, Doggetts is a fine, fine pub. Plenty of room,
not-too-loud music, nice beer... and fairly convenient for most people.
Alex
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"Four pints of milk, a turkey ba
same that even a wonder-newbie like me has gainful employment
right now :-)
Alex
--
"Four pints of milk, a turkey baster and some plastic
tubing, that's all you need."
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/diffrentcolours
I haven't done Morrising for ages. Count me in!
Alex
--
"Four pints of milk, a turkey baster and some plastic
tubing, that's all you need."
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> At 15:53 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> Jon, thinking Paganism and Christianity should co-exist happily as do Art
> and Science.
>
Yes, if only...
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,62-112765,00.html
Alex Gough
--
Today class, we'll be cloning extinct
species to see how they taste.
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dean wrote:
> Lonix
> Date: Wednesday 6th June at 6.00pm.
hasn't this been postponed?
alex
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> hmmm .. I was tempted just to let it pass .. but I can't resist ;)
>
> What you need to remember is this : They will say ANYTHING to get your
> vote .. ANYTHING.
Even the truth? I'd very much doubt that.
Alex Gough
--
I don&
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:03:35AM +0100, AEF wrote:
> > When I last ordered a HDD from Dabs, they mailed me a couple of days
> > later to say that it wasn't in stock (there website said it was).
>
> My motherboard from Dabs has spent two days "awaiting
... Before I kill you, Mr Bond, I want you to sign this confession of your
own incompetance using your ordinary looking pen.
Alex Gough
--
Guyfawkes made a very loyal plan to to blow up the King and the bishops
and everybody else in Parliament, with gunpowder. Although he failed
attemp
hat I'm currently using belons to the grilf, and this has
a pair of vibrating rabbits (Anarchy and Armageddon), a lion, a gecko,
a chameleon, and a stone with wierdy celtic carvings. And an extensible
aerial, stuck on with blu-tak, that keeps falling off and poking me in
the head.
Alex
--
&q
don 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?
Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics
against the True London.pm'ers (tm)...
Alex
the trouble I had
trying to buy this...))
And, tied to the ceiling above the monitor, a 35p flying dinosaur which
waves in the thermals.
Alex Gough
--
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but
it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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?
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&q
k who
> > > "kills people for a living" in Hereford!
> > Um. I no longer want children.
> You *wanted* them? :-)
Deep fried?
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
rd
person is thought of in a very unfortunate way from then on by the
mishearer.
L. foam tea with tapioca balls
M. go home. probably to different homes but someone might decide to have
a impromptu, disorganised house party.
N. miss an opportunity.
see you there!
alex
--
here they come lalalalala la lalalalala la the part time punks
On Thu, 3 May 2001, alex wrote:
> anyone know a good cocktail bar (ie, not swanky, but with nice cocktails)
> in London?
it should be open on a sunday afternoon by the way :) for those
interested in coming along, it will probably start about early afternoon.
by the way, for those interes
anyone know a good cocktail bar (ie, not swanky, but with nice cocktails)
in London?
It's my BIRTHDAY and I want to invite everyone to drink tasty drinks with
me but the only cocktail bar I liked has closed down.
veeg
--
here they come lalalalala la lalalalala la the part time punks
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:47:47PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:56:22PM -0400, Alex Page wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm feeling like this is getting waaay too off-topic
> What is this "off-topic" you speak of? Is it a custom of your people?
Yeah.
batical, so...
No, sort of, no.
Alex
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"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:26:04PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
> I suggest you go look at the entry for NY.pm at
> http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.shtml :-)
*peers round site*
Blimey, there's an Oxford perl mongers! You mean I'm not the
only perl coder in this city?!?
tight jumper in slow
> motion?
Actually, in Manchester, one traditionally dances to the Sisters either
with a four-way country reel, or the Can-Can. Sobriety is not an option :-)
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
, then there's enough loose
women in tight PVC to make it worth attending...
Alex
ObLondon.pmRef: The Bronze looks like a really good club!
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
runken nights in Jilly's drinking too much snakebite
and falling over while trying to dance to the Sisters of Mercy
probably won't interest most of london.pm
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
The one thing that's really bugging me is the lack of support for paged media - I've
got a very simple rule that says that you should avoid page-breaking after the
employer's name / details (so you get at least one paragraph of the job description
in), but have yet to find a browser th
the stuff has arrived, so we'll probably have a go at putting shiney new
things in penderel tomorrow evening.
if there's a time when this would inconvenience you, let me know and i'll
make a proper schedule if need be. otherwise watch out for wall'd and irc
announcements.
looking forward to the meeting...
just thought i'd mention that although last time i said there wouldn't be
beer and there was, this time there really won't be beer... no time to
organise it i'm afraid.
but please feel free to bring your own :)
cheers
alex
--
here th
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:25:27AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> and we've tentatively pencilled in Thursday 26th April as a good date
> for us to show them how to drink.
Shit, and The Fall are playing Oxford then :-(
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule y
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for
> us, but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to
> step forward.
i'll do some more music for a bit.
alex
--
here they come lalalal
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Alex Page wrote:
> > When I was at prep school, my English teacher had lots of
> > little signs over the classroom walls saying things like
> > "It's not all right to say 'alright'",
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 06:59:44AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Alex Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols,
> > Gah, I've got a copy of that on my shelf. Really should get round
> > to reading it at some poi
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:37:34PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> You probably want:
> TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols,
Gah, I've got a copy of that on my shelf. Really should get round
to reading it at some point...
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let
difference between it's and its, you're and your,
> and don't write 'alot', you're probably in the top 1%-ile :)
When I was at prep school, my English teacher had lots of little signs over the
classroom walls saying things like "It's not all right to say &#x
ts of cider, and then spend the night around a
> camp fire, drinking and talking.
But where would we find a camping ground with a fast net connection and wireless LAN
connections?
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
sure - wasn't suggesting any back-room dealings - just that it will be
more expedient to discuss these face to face and bounce ideas around (and
i also suspect that this is a subject of interest to the minority of the
list).
alex
>
> however remember that all committee session
such a YAS exist (or other type of body)?
alex
> >
> > YAS has already had `salaried' staff and grants so thats not that
> > new a thing, if the certification brings in cash i'm sure some of
> > it can be redirected to the costs. But I am keen to see the certific
session.
alex
>
> YAS has already had `salaried' staff and grants so thats not that
> new a thing, if the certification brings in cash i'm sure some of
> it can be redirected to the costs. But I am keen to see the certification
> content first before we get bogged down in t
f a YAS-type entity to operate
without funding and salaried staff. If an entity is investable or more
obviously sponsorable then it might be a lot easier to get seed funding
from someone like O'Reilly or IBM.
alex
>
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translate
perfectly to other activities - and i think Perl brand building (of
which PCSE is just one component in the jigsaw) is one of them.
no flames - please.
alex
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> Attached is a draft proposal
>
> As soon as JS gets a chance to se
ink a voluntary, well-meaning effort will achieve this.
alex
>
> * alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > you don't think having a single body with london.pm representation whose
> > responsibilities would be exam delivery, assessment and certificaiton
> > would
you don't think having a single body with london.pm representation whose
responsibilities would be exam delivery, assessment and certificaiton
would be more efficient/effective than what you describe?
alex
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
> > I think a lot of this wi
ther org to actually do
the certification. Maybe a privately owned company formed from the
london.pm membership.
alex
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> > At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:51:46 +0100 (BST), alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
und like a professional certification a la MCSE simply
to address corporate criticisms that this is a hackers only language with
no certification.
i think the whole initiative should be more about making Perl be taken
more seriously OUTSIDE the community.
alex
>
> Shouldn't that be CPH for &
i am a little unclear what the benefits of this exercise might be without
a brand or larger player backing it up. if we could hook up with someone
like learning tree (eg they can claim to deliver courses to "PCSE"
standards) this might be a big winner.
alex
ps i only mention lea
annot be said of Perl. Until a
corporate puts marketing muscle behind it (highly unlikely) people will
perceive it as a hacker technology.
alex
ps whoever raised the issue of opex/capex - openness: the more people i
talk to nowadays about selling consultancy work - the more i hear people
wanting pro
;noone was ever sacked for hiring ibm" - i think
we're moving towards s/IBM/Java/
alex
ps the big killer is that there is no large corporate generating tons of
noise about Perl - whereas this is not the case for Java.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> On Wed,
ulary perl) but i don't think that is the market
situation.
alex
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
y problems with them. i'll pick only in-stock
stuff because i understand that they can be slacker than they advertise
when it comes to re-stocking. jo would hopefully oversee the process so i
don't end up ordering bananas by mistake.
are the mungers happy with this approach? or would yo
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> >2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
> >MM YY which is more sensible.
> Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond confusion.
Or even better still, YYYY-MM-DD :-)
Alex
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> Formmail - alex@state51
will take more later if there are some left over
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tonight i'm gonna party like it's (time_t) 1E9
dadadodo> IE5 PIPE CRACK always SMOKING
t appears to have once again fallen off, where are we on this?
Dunno, if someone wants to use a perl meet as a smokescreen to coincide with a music
festival I want to attend in NY at the end of august so I've got more chance of
getting time off past my bosses, I'd be most grateful :-)
unt on the
london.pm server, either send me a cheque, transfer the money into my
account, or bring the money to the axkit talk tomorrow.
50 pounds each
cheers,
alex
london.pm,
slub play a live generative set this wednesday 7th february at 'deriver',
in the foundry. our set will start at about 8:30pm, although the evening
will kick off a bit before that i think.
should be a fun evening of drinking, chatting and strange noises.
best
alex
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i
s, rather than sticking to a "home",
but I'm like that so feel free to ignore me :-)
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
ys forget to flush when forking, and I've done some horrible things with
IPC::Open3 before...
Alex
--
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you
can have everything that you want." - Jareth, Labyrinth
a public archive containing all our email addresses is obviously bad.
no-spam countermeasures help, but it's an ugly solution..
it's also about atmosphere. i don't like contributing to a friendly,
discussive list that's archived and searchable by anyone who happens to
drop by. mutual trust is
armful" arguments (which we don't
> necessarily accept as valid).
there is only one right way, and that's to give people the choice.
that's what i do, and in my experience the majority prefer to have their
reply-to's munged on discussive lists such as this one.
alex
--
her this money, i'll want to spend it (on
the server) straight away rather than have it sitting around.
you have some good suggestions for what we should spend it on, though.
alex
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:18AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> It should be mandatory for all public servants to be adept at Sim
> City.
IIRC, Sim City is one of Ken Livingstone's favorites.
Alex
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
ok i was a bit late ;)
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever known this. I'm hoping that
> someone woh a) bought it or b) is sitting next to it will be able to
> leap in with this information.
[alex@penderel alex]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
the month I'll let you all know what money we have and we
can then decide what to do with it.
Alex
[1] My first name is actually Christopher, but handily my parents changed
their minds after registering my birth and decided to call me by my middle
name.
PS The guy with the tennants extra bro
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> Anyone fancy it?
I forgot to mention, I offered to do this before, and that offer still
stands.
alex
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Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
er version than CPAN (sorry)
I am happy to discuss this stuff in greater detail off-list, or in the
generative art mailing list 'eu-gene' at generative.net.
Best,
Alex
"yes please bring your whiteboard pens
along by all means."
cheers,
alex
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
In my opinion London would be fine for an August conference.
I don't know what the fuss is about, really. London is not like Paris in
the summer. We have a lot more parks.
Perhaps September would be better, but hey.
Alex
--
Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:43:00PM +, Robin Houston wrote:
> Don't we have someone here who *is* a lawyer? :-)
More to the point, don't we have someone who could drop a mail to one of the happy
bunnies at O'Rielly and ask them nicely not to sue us?
Alex
7;Reilly
> would protect.
IANAL, but AFAIK parody is protected under trademark law, as long as you're not making
profit (I presume beer money for the hassle of T-shirt making is excusable).
Alex
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:32:47PM +, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
> How about "Smoking Perl" for Amsterdam?
"YAPC::Europe::Amsterdam - A Week-Long Hashref"
Alex
friendly community. if i'm going to use other
people's code in my art this is a highly important point.
so to me, Perl is the most human computer language, and so the most
suitable language for computer art.
alex
ps Tangram and Template Toolkit are great!
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> I left (void) and you'l not take me back alive! Outlook canne take the
> strain!
i think london.pm is busier than (void) nowadays, a lot of the
thought-provoking people left
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Snack pastries are dramatic when shapes are combined
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, jo walsh wrote:
> i have had ideas about (Ouperlpo? Oupropo?) myself, but never done
> anything about it :/
that would indeed be cool. our generative music performance at
YAPC::Europe was influenced by these people
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I need a cigarette."
"Here you go, you can scab one of mine."
"No thanks, I'm fine."
Alex, stalking dha around the 'net
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
> It was pointed out this evening that I hadn't send out a reminder for
> the technical meeting which is in two weeks time (Jan 18th). We'll be
> holding it at State 51 and I'm hoping that Alex or Jo will post
> detailed directi
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Shevek wrote:
> > my @sort=sort keys %{ +{ map { $_ => undef } @list } };
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is this different to
> my @sort = sort @list;
values in @sort are unique?
> where, when?
I haven't made any plans yet but was thinking about going down to the
foundry NYE evening and hanging around there until 2001 then playing it by
ear from there on. Anyone fancy that?
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