Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Huxton
Bob Walker wrote: all: there is more than one way to do it! Of course on this topic (and since it's a Friday)... and taking into account the talk of straight-jackets... and the well known meme that Perl isn't a bondage and discipline language... There's clearly the option of an ahem adult

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:26:30AM -0700, Ovid wrote: Java (in straight jacket): I'm Java Perl: I'm Perl. Java: I can be trusted. I can't poke myself in the eye. Perl: (shakes his/her head and walks off) Java: Hey, come back! I need someone to scratch my nose! J: I'm Java, I'm supported by

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: Python (Japanese): I'm Ruby. Perl: I'm Perl. Python:  I'm a clean, modern language. Perl: Hey, you're Japanese. Don't you write that funny Kanji stuff? How can you read that? Python: Hey, it's a beautiful, expressive style of writing. It's not

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Chisel Wright chi...@herlpacker.co.uk On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:26:30AM -0700, Ovid wrote: Python (Japanese): I'm Ruby. Why is Java pretending to be someone else? Er, how the heck did I miss that? Evidently my attempting to figure out how to

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:49 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord knows, there's enough scope for that. Sign: YOU CAN EARN $$$ WITH PERL!! JAPH: *places sticker reading

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul Makepeace wrote: I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord knows, there's enough scope for that. perl5.8: Hello my name is perl five point eight perl5.8: far too long lets try

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 15:04, Bob Walkerb...@randomness.org.uk wrote: perl5.8: Hello my name is perl five point eight perl5.8: far too long lets try this perl5.8: hi my name is perl5.8 perl5.8: still to long! perl5.8: hi im perl5.8 perl5.10: dude, just say hi perl5.005_03: don't you mean

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:23, Peter Corlett wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:59:47PM +0100, Denny wrote: [...] Sign: YOU CAN EARN $$$ WITH PERL!! JAPH: *places sticker reading 'WRITE' over 'EARN'* JAPH: *writes underneath* ...and it will compile and run. Well, that's the first one that's

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Lush
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul Makepeace wrote: I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord knows, there's enough scope for that. (guy in t shirt)Hi I'm Perl (guy on trampolene) Hi I'm Befunge . . --

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:34, Joel Bernstein wrote: Well, that's the first one that's actually amusing enough to make me grin. I think what's particularly nice here is that it doesn't seem to be a joke at another group's expense. This script would be harder than some of the others to construe

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul Makepeace wrote: I think this is a great idea, and would be much, much funnier (and well received) if Perl spent some time poking fun at itself. Lord knows, there's enough scope for that. not really fun but quite obvious since a lot of you are going to be at

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Christopher Jones
On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:34, Joel Bernstein wrote: On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:23, Peter Corlett wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:59:47PM +0100, Denny wrote: [...] Sign: YOU CAN EARN $$$ WITH PERL!! JAPH: *places sticker reading 'WRITE' over 'EARN'* JAPH: *writes underneath* ...and it will compile

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:56, Christopher Jones wrote: So, the complete opposite of the original Mac/PC ads then 1. Mitchell and Webb are professional comedians and can make a menu sound funny. 2. PC's suck and deserve to be belittled. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN:

Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Ovid
On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Denny
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 07:32 -0700, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. In

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Adrian Lai
2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads.  Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Mike Whitaker
Adrian Lai wrote: 2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Christopher Jones
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Adrian Lai p...@loathe.me.uk Like the Java/Ruby on Rails thing of a few years ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo I had totally forgotten about those. I was thinking more along the lines of a very short series of jokes per language, bundled

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Christopher Jones c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk Are you seriously asking London Perl M[[ou]]ngers to pretend to be Java programmers? And to volunteer??? Hey, some of my best friends are cross-dressers. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Struan Donald
* at 29/07 07:32 -0700 Ovid said: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Chris Jack
Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 29 Jul 2009, at 16:50, Struan Donald wrote: * at 29/07 07:32 -0700 Ovid said: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Struan Donald str...@exo.org.uk Isn't this just likely to turn out to be an exercise in poking a load of wasps nests? I certainly hope so. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog-

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com I have a DV cam, tripod and white wall. Can blag a pro mike. All sounds awesome except for the white wall. Would be nice to find interesting settings which make people think WTF? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:10, Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com I have a DV cam, tripod and white wall. Can blag a pro mike. All sounds awesome except for the white wall. Would be nice to find interesting settings which make people think