Re: Now for something completely different...

[MRAB]

On 2022-05-23 00:30, Chris Angelico wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 09:19, Skip Montanaro  wrote:

That's not too informative (other than its relationship to moi), and I have
room for probably four or five more characters. (I have a graphic artist in
mind, so the space need not strictly be text either.)


Aww, not enough room to say "straight line", because (in Euclidean
space) it's the fastest way from B to A.


Instead of "straight line", "A → B".
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Re: Now for something completely different...

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 09:19, Skip Montanaro  wrote:
> That's not too informative (other than its relationship to moi), and I have
> room for probably four or five more characters. (I have a graphic artist in
> mind, so the space need not strictly be text either.)

Aww, not enough room to say "straight line", because (in Euclidean
space) it's the fastest way from B to A.

ChrisA
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Now for something completely different...

[Skip Montanaro]

This isn't really Python-related, but I don't wander around any more
general software engineering/computer science places on the web, so I will
throw this out here.

I start a framebuilding class next week (lugged steel construction for
those into bikes). After about three weeks of work, I should have a
custom-made frame, which will also happen to have been built by me. It will
need paint or powder coat and graphics. I'm looking for ideas about the
graphics.

Though I spent most of my professional life noodling around with Python
(I'm now retired), I don't really want the graphics to be terribly
Python-centric. Consequently, "import this" is probably not going to work.
I have decided to go ahead and use my first name in lower case Courier as
the core piece of the downtube graphic:

skip

That's not too informative (other than its relationship to moi), and I have
room for probably four or five more characters. (I have a graphic artist in
mind, so the space need not strictly be text either.)

So, how would you fill the remaining space? I've considered "n++" or "n+1",
but not thought of anything more than that. For those who are not into
bikes, you may not have heard of the Velominati Rules
. I quote Rule #12:

*The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.*
While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct
number is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned. This
equation may also be re-written as s-1, where s is the number of bikes
owned that would result in separation from your partner.

I currently have six to ten, depending on how demanding you are that they
be ready to ride with nothing more than air in the tires. This project,
while definitely n+1 might well also be approaching s-1. :-)

Ideas about head tube graphics are also welcome. I have no idea there at
all yet. Again, some subtle reference to software engineering would be nice.

So, if you'd like to play along, toss out some ideas. I'll consider
everything as long as it's not NSFW.

Skip
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And now for something completely different ...

[Christian Heimes]

To whom it might concern. Monty Python has opened an official Monty 
Python channel on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython


High quality Monty Python movies - powered by Python :)

Have fun!
Christian

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And now for something completely different...

[Caleb Hattingh]

I spent way too much time reading the recent massive ">500-messages"
thread, and then spent even more time (perhaps better spent) reading
wider on some aspects of the debate.

This recently-found link sets out (from one possibly-biased POV, I
guess) how the rift between GNU Emacs and XEmacs occurred:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

After reading the page, and in light of much of the
"your-syntax-is-obscure/mine-is-clear/easy-to-read/hard-to-read"
discussion on said ">500-messages" thread, I found the last line on the
above lemacs.html page very funny, and wanted to share it.

Not saying that such a thing couldn't ever be said about some given
implementation of something complex in python (or any language, for
that matter), but I still had a good chuckle.

Caleb

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