Yesterday, I received Settlers of Catan, which I had ordered from Amazon on Sunday night. I'd played the game several times before, but it was in the posession of my sister who lives in Maryland (while I live in New Jersey). I wanted to have my own copy of the game. I did the same thing when my sister got me into the game Carcassonne.

Today, I was talking about Catan on #irc.freenode.org::perl, and found out that five or six people on the channel actively play both games, and know of online portals and whatnot. (There's gnocatan on sourceforge, for example.) I was a little surprised that these two games were uncommonly popular in #perl. Do any of you monks play these games?

While I enjoy playing these games in reality, I always have some urge in the back of my brain to make a Perl version (a terminal- or maybe Tk-based one), or at least to write some server software so others can use it for their versions. I don't see the practicality in doing that right now, and I'm sure when I end up getting the time, someone else will have done a much better job. Oh well. There's always Real Life.

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Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

In reply to Carcasonne, Settlers of Catan by japhy

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