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<h3>The critics review [id://58043|My 666th Post]:</h3>
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<li>bah, 58043 is not a nice node</li>
<li>Cool idea for node #666 ;-)</li>
<li>Ack! You lost 1 experience point.</li>
<li>You gained 1 experience point.</li>
<li>It's the greatest meditation i've come accross since i joined the monastery.</li>
<li>I heartily (or is it hardly??) approve.</li>
<li>i liked that node a lot</li>
<li>Z@ n0d3 be10ngz 0n h0ur s1s-star s1t3:
<a href="http://www.psyclops.com/translator/translator.cgi?type=hacker&url=http://www.perlmonks.org">www.1337m0nkz.org</a>!</li>
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And the tally from [id://28877]:
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keep: 26 delete: 12 edit: 1
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In case you haven't heard, I quit my programming gig and enrolled in law school. Yes law school. No I haven't lost my mind (or if I have then it happened long before applying to such places). I still use Perl though... mostly to help sift through research, but also for side projects. It's amazing how useful programming skills can be. The color of this page, btw, is random. Hit refresh and it should change... Unless, of course, you disabled Javascript.
<noscript><b>Which it seems you did! What have you got against random colors, eh? :-)</b></noscript>
I used to check this site fairly often, but not so much anymore. Ask Tye for my e-mail address if you want to contact me. <p>The not-quite-obfuscated code below looks cooler on slower machines. If it goes too fast for you, just increase the value of <tt>$i</tt> in the the second line.</td></tr>
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<b>TIMTOWTDI</b>
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Perl Monk Quotes!<BR>
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<LI>[Tilly]: Really, my opinion on optimizing is that it is like running. If you are so eager to run that you start flailing your feet, you will fall over. First make sure you are upright and moving...</li>
<LI>[Merlyn]: PHP - it's "Training wheels without the bike" </li>
<li>[Tye]: Don't let someone's proof that some problem is impossible to solve prevent you from solving the problem well enough to get your work done! </li>
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<li>[Kudra]: Wierd chatterbox voodoo today.</li>
<li>[zigster]: Dont aspire to be fast .. aspire to be good.</li>
<li>[jcwren]: You have to hold the camel book over your head and loudly say "IIIIiiii Haaaavvvve The Powwwwwwwwer"</li>
<li>[BrentDax]: MY EYES! MY EYES! AHHH!</li>
<li>[crazyinsomniac]: So sayeth Adam, and so it is, and so on, and so forth, and then some.</li>
<li>[ChemBoy]: Sleep is just a poor substitute for Caffeine!</li>
<li>[Ovid]: You're comparing cheese to Wednesday</li>
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<I>With more to come!!!</I> Also check out some other monk [id://27854|quotes], and [id://31460|this] bit I noticed in the chatterbox once.<BR><small>Quotes posted without permission. MSG me your complaints.</small>
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List o' PerlMonks treasures:
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<li>[id://27460|Filehandle Filter]
<li>[id://8745]
<li>[id://9108]
<li>[id://31658]
<li>[id://17890]
<li>[id://23125]
<li>[id://39665]
<li>[The Default Node]
<li>[id://966]
<li>[id://126]
<li>[id://50667]
<li>[id://18393]
<ul><strike>Two</strike>Three Perldocs Every Monk Should Read:
<li>[id://395]
<li>[id://410]
<li>[id://376]
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<li><a href="http://www.dfan.org/real/tpj_hash.html">Build a better hash</a> -- Ok, not in the Monastery, but you should read it anyway.
<li>[id://9096]
<li>[id://27148]
<li>[id://23304]
<li>[id://32291]
<li>[id://2072]
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(More to come.)
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<li>[id://9148]</li>
<li>[id://11088]</li>
<li>[id://29124]</li>
<li>[id://33291]</li>
<li>[id://51302]</li>
<li>[id://66546]</li>
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You can find more Government links buried in the mess at <a href="http://firstgov.gov/">First Gov</a>.<BR>
<small>(And don't forget the <a href="http://www.un.org/">United Nations</a>!)</small>
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<li><a href="http://wire.ap.org/GoToAP.cgi">the AP wire</a>
<li><a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>
<li><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.cspan.org">CSpan</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Matt Drudge</a>
<li><a href="http://www.slashdot.org">SlashDot</a>
<li><a href="http://www.fool.com/">The Motley Fool</a>
<li><a href="http://www.thestandard.com">Industry Standard</a>
<li><a href="http://www.slate.msn.com">Slate</a>
<li><a href="http://www.economist.com">Economist</a>
<li><a href="http://www.politicsonline.com/">PoliticsOnline</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.herald.com/content/archive/living/barry/content.htm">Dave Barry</a>
<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/crosswords/">Washington Post Crossword puzzles</a>
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The best part of the Newspaper is always the comics:
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<li><a href="http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/">Calvin and Hobbes</a>
<li><a href="http://www.dilbert.com">Dilbert</a>
<li><a href="http://www.userfriendly.org/">User Friendly</a>
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One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.</blockquote>
<p align=right>-- Robert Firth</p>
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<blockquote>
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.</blockquote>
<p align=right>-- March 22, 1977, Donald E. Knuth</p>
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<blockquote>
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.</blockquote>
<p align=right>-- John Naisbitt</p>
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Q It's totally a matter of semantics.
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MR. FLEISCHER: That's what I do for a living.
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Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary for the 43rd President of the United States, During a press briefing on February 5th, 2001</p>
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<blockquote>When I tell a robot to get me a beer, I don't want it horsing around. I want it to get a beer.</blockquote>
<p align=right>Joseph F. Engelberger, inventer of the first industrial robot in the 1950's</p>
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<blockquote>
The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when thefish are caught, the trap is forgotten.<BR>
The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten.<BR>
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.<BR>
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.<BR></blockquote>
<p align=right>Chuang-Tzu <SMALL>(<I>Thanks to [neshura]</I>)</SMALL></p>
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:55:00 -0600
From: john blair moore <nuerble@3guys.com>
To: Adam
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Hi Adam,
the fencing animation is mine. If you have fencing credentials
yourself, I will grant permission for limited use on your page.
the conditions are these:
The credit line must read copyright John Blair Moore, and my name must
be linked to http://www.nuerble.com
(the little guys fencing are nuerbles. to learn more about them, you
have to visit my site.)
The other 2 Guys are nice guys too, but I prefer the link to go directly
to my site. If you want to be extra cool by having a link to 3Guys.com,
well, who I am to stand in the way of you being extra cool.
If you're curious about other fencers, come to
http://www.nuerble.com/kabal
for a look at our Salle.
You are not licensed to use the art in any other way, or to make any
money offit. if you do, you have to give it to me.
Have fun and happy fencing
John Blair Moore
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<small>copyright 1998 John Blair Moore,
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