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The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel, and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides, and a dark wind blows. The government is corrupt, and we're on so many drugs, with the radio on and the curtains drawn.


Ceci n'est pas un mongueur

Mongueur is the best I could come up with for pronouncing monger in French. Recently stefp pointed out that this was the Right Thing to do, because no-one else uses the word, so it's really easy to search for our website using a reputable search engine. Nice the way these things work out.

Paris Mongers have been meeting since 1999, these days on the second Wednesday of each month. Maybe if you're heading through, you ought to get in touch with us. We held the innaugural French Perl Workshop in July 2004. The second French Perl Workshop will be held in Marseille in June 2005.

hear my hard boiled egg-heart beat
we go twisting
I spent a couple of hours renaming several sets of modules because one sentence in the documentation made no sense with their original names. --chromatic

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death. The sun has fallen down, and the billboards are all leering, and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.


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It went like this: the buildings tumbled in on themselves, mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair. The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange haze.


My code on Perlmonks

Code & CraftSnippets

It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. The same will be true of other planetary systems. On each of them there will be one chance, and one chance only.

Sir Fred Hoyle, 1964

Learn the secret of Stoney Tangawizi, "It is a most inspired beverage.". If you're playing with random numbers, make sure you have a random seed. . . . Speaking of random numbers, ICQ 108142251 => I am not a number, I am a free man. [TM The Prisoner] . . . . who is number 2? . . . . Meat . . . They're made out of meat <= better link found by da. . . . . . I want to read Pragmatic Programmer, The and to tell the truth I don't see what all the fuss is about. I suppose that means I am already quite pragmatic. . . . . Code-u-like (Waiting for children to die, Rounding up to nearest power of 2, Timing out shell commands (paranoia), my $var = ''; vs. use constant VAR => '';, How do I read the files in @ARGV). . . . Rant-u-like (How do I do a natural sort, I'm Such a Lonely Monk, No excuses about not using CGI.pm, Rules-based Perl?, The fickleness of Reputation, Why Closures?, Why I like functional programming). . . . . Rave-u-like (Suggestions for working with poor code, references quick reference, Optimizing variable passing, Process management, Random Thoughts on Programming, Regex Misuse). . . . I got more of these but it's such a hassle typing them in. . . . . . . . . Remember kids, all your base are belong to Mr T. . . . . . . . . Sanctified circa 2001/09/22 12:00 UTC, made double saint some time around 2002/02/20. . . . triple saint around 2002/08/30-13:00 UTC. . . . . 7x 2004-11-18 12:58:03 UTC. . . . . . . . Curse the GNU folks who think info pages are better than man pages. . . . . . . There is more to lifeWin32 Perl modules than ActiveState. The best place I know of to find out where they are is to consult crazyinsomniac PodMaster's PPM repository. You'll find a good number of PPMs that he makes available, as well as a list of other public repositories. . . . .

emacs still sucks!

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m!
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Hey! I set up a site on jcwren's perlmonk server, home of the

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Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah ! Degrés te fallent

Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout gai de Reguennes

There's this man, see, and he walks into a pharmacy/chemist/drug store1 and he asks for some deodorant.

"Ball or aerosol, sir?" asks the woman behind the counter.

"Err, no, for my armpits actually."

1. Delete whichever does not apply to your cultural context

I was in the VIP lounge last week en route to Seattle. Whilst in the lounge, I noticed Bill Gates sitting on the chesterfield enjoying a cognac.

I was meeting with a very important client who was also flying to Seattle with me but she was running a bit late. Being a forward type of guy, I approached Mr. Gates and introduced myself. I explained to him that I was conducting some very important business and how I would appreciate it if he could throw a quick "Hello Chris" at me when I was with my client. He agreed.

Ten minutes later while I was conversing with my client, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Bill Gates. I turned around and looked up at him. He said, "Hi Chris, what's happening?" To which I replied "Fuck off Gates, I'm in a meeting."


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time -- like tears in rain.
Time... to die.

A Swiss is visiting Sydney, Australia, pulls up at a bus stop where two locals are waiting. "Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?" he asks. The two Aussies just stare at him. "Excusez-moi, parlez vous français?" he tries. The two continue to stare blankly. "Parlare italiano?" No response. "Hablan ustedes español?" Still nothing. The Swiss guy gives up an drives off.

The first Aussie turns to the second and says, "Y'know, maybe we should learn a foreign language." "Why?" says the other. "That guy knew four languages, and it didn't do him any good."


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CO+>+++PO->+o+>+++G
>+A-OLC+OLCC--OLJ--OLP--OLCO---OLS---OL
L+OLA--Ee---(++)Ev+>++Eon+(+++)$uL+$uB+
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"Who cares what you think?"
President George W. Bush
July 4, 2001


Are we unique? Are we something completely and utterly special in the universe? Or are we an example of many, many civilisations that have emerged, many, many different lifeforms?

Too gentle you were wise man
And I broke your holy bell
Run, run, run...


The Sun Is Burning

The sun is burning in the sky
Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by
In the park the lazy bees
Are joining in the flowers among the trees
And the sun burns in the sky.

Now the sun is in the west
Little kids go home to take their rest
And the couples in the park
Are holding hands and waiting for the dark
And the sun is in the west.

Now the sun is sinking low
Children playing know it's time to go
High above a spot appears
A little blossom blooms and then draws near
And the sun is sinking low.

Now the sun has come to Earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash
And the sun has come to Earth.

Now the sun has disappeared
All is darkness, anger, pain and fear
Twisted, sightless wrecks of men
Go groping on their knees and cry in pain
And the sun has disappeared.

Ian Campbell, 1964

Ginette

La mer ça n's'invente pas
et nous on crève à rester là
et le funambule beau qu'il est
marchant sur son fil
Charles il disait l'albatros
il en est mort
a marcher sur la terre
mais c'est pas fini
on va continuer
a marcher dans les airs
et les supermarchés
pour nous donner l'air
de ne pas rien faire
et pour manger
on va s'aimer encore et encore
pendant des années
j'étais là moi monsieur
sinon on sait pas trop c'qu'il faut faire
et là y a la Ginette qui valse en guinguette
qu'a toujours un verre d'avance
des fois qu'on ferme la dernière porte
faut s'enivrer quoi qu'il arrive
et puis rêver et faire la fête
c'est des musiciens sur des tréteaux
tôt ou tard ça va s'écrouler
mais leur histoire on s'en fout
Ginette continue à tourner
sur cet air de ferraille et de verres cassés
allez Ginette!...

La mer ça n's'invente pas
et nous on crève à rester là
et c'est tout.

Têtes Raides


I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful — these are truly the last days." You grabbed my hand and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever. We woke up one morning and fell a little further down — for sure it's the valley of death. I open up my wallet and it's full of blood.


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And of course, the quote that didn't make it:

<Macphisto> Wanna take over the world?
<neshura> is it hard?
<Macphisto> You can have Djiboudi.
<neshura> aww but he's old
<Macphisto> Being a country - yes, I guess he is.
<neshura> practically in a nursing home
<neshura> that's not a country!
<Macphisto> Yes it is!
<neshura> show me on a map!
<Macphisto> It's in Africa.
Macphisto goes to get a map.
<grinder> I wanna be Sheik Djibouti
neshura does not see "Africa" on the Krusty Burger map
<Macphisto> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/dj.html
<Macphisto> grinder++
<cow> haha
neshura giggles
<cow> sheik sheik sheik
<cow> sheik sheik sheik
i lit it up with an engine,
now it's rolling for you

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