Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by greenFox (Vicar) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:14 UTC
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Don't forget the pelvic thrust.
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... it's a big step for mankind
And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
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a camel will pass through a wormhole before a programmer should get to heaven...
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by TedPride (Priest) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:50 UTC
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It's around a corner. But most people go mad trying to comprehend the corner. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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I am reminded of the Dutch phrase "Om de hoek", which means around the corner, but sometimes gets miss-translated as "On the corner".
The phrase also has some of the same connotations of the English phrase "Round the bend".
Update: Thanks aukjan for pointing out my typo.
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Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ?
My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree.
Your powers of persuasion will set them all free,
So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)
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I am reminded of the Dutch phrase "Om der hoek",
That is "Om de hoek" ... 'der' is tooooo German ;-)
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by aukjan (Friar) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:59 UTC
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It depends in which "worldly" context you view this question:
- "The Real World" : The absolute path between keyboard and server location.
- "Networking World" : Add the length of all transports used to transfer my keystrokes from my keyboard to the server, with the least amount of hops.
- "Emotional World" : The distance from the keyboard to my heart.
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
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I guess "Through a wormhole" most accurately describes accessing PM through my corporate firewall ;).
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Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ?
My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree.
Your powers of persuasion will set them all free,
So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)
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Wouldn't that be "through the valley of the shadow of death"? ;)
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:10 UTC
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I see no option for "through my coffee cup". :(
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by gregor42 (Parson) on Aug 04, 2005 at 17:07 UTC
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by wolfger (Deacon) on Aug 04, 2005 at 17:39 UTC
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Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2005 at 23:16 UTC
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Zeno's paradox becomes all the more perplexing in the world of Perl. The infinite number of infinitesimally small distances converges to 1. (I used the ratio test to figure that out. I couldn't use the root test too effectively since there weren't any exponents involved.) So I voted for that, and so far I'm with the majority.
A quantum leap makes some sense, but I don't know the wavefunction of Perl, let alone its Hamiltonian. The product of the position and momentum changes when I click on this site happens to be MUCH larger than h-bar.
Maybe Perl exists in infinite-dimensional Hilbert space... I'd add something about that to our voting options. Or better yet, the shortest distance might only be found by using the Kronecker delta.
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by Ben Win Lue (Friar) on Aug 05, 2005 at 08:02 UTC
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What is a rhump line ???
My dictionary answers "Isoazimutallinie", what just adds +∞ to my confusion... | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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Rhumb lines form a spiral to the nearest poll (unless your heading is 0).
I really thought you were making a joke about the poll ideas quest here. Imagine how disappointed I was when it was a spelling error.
But thanks for the information -- you learn something new every day around here.
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Maybe it's supposed to be "a rhumba line"
Cha. Cha. Cha.
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And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by Moriarty (Abbot) on Aug 05, 2005 at 05:05 UTC
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by geekgrrl (Pilgrim) on Aug 05, 2005 at 19:08 UTC
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the Floo Network, of course! | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
A hop, skip, and a jump (was: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:)
by Happy-the-monk (Canon) on Aug 05, 2005 at 22:50 UTC
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by jonadab (Parson) on Aug 06, 2005 at 12:23 UTC
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What I do is, I figure out how long I have to get there and how far it is, and I make sure I'm on track to be on time by making sure that I've gone half the distance by the time half of the time elapses. Then I go half the remaining distance in half the remaining time, and so on, until I'm there. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by monkfan (Curate) on Aug 07, 2005 at 04:17 UTC
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"Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance but never at heart."
"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
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Re: The shortest distance between my keyboard and the Monastery is:
by shadox (Priest) on Aug 07, 2005 at 04:35 UTC
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