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For those geeks out there who have been living the past week or two under a /(rock|pile of (school )?work)/ (like me), today is Valentine's Day.  I know merchants have twisted this day into Spend Extravagantly on Your Significant Other Day™, but I propose another take on today.

How about taking today to /msg a monk of your choice with the above ASCII rose (maybe even followed up with a ++ to one of their nodes) just to say "You're special", "You are cared about", "You being here makes this a better place".  Why?  Because, this day should not be about whether or not you are "in love" but rather to say to someone who may not have heard it for a very long time, "You are appreciated".

P.S.:  I guess this is not completely off-topic as I did mention "monk" once...   :P

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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 14, 2006 at 16:53 UTC
    I'm sure you can see why most of us are reluctant to join in with your "rose parade", since most monks are male. :-) Is there a list of female monks( with pictures of their computers :-) ) ?
    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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      To buck the trend have one yourself!

      @}-`-,--.

      Why? Because whilst I don't recall you ever helping me I do remember seeing your name around a couple of times and you've done a good job of helping other people.

      Plus you've got a lot of writeups, so that must mean you have a lot of free time - and can spare a bit of that to water your rose! ;)

      Steve
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      I'm sure you can see why most of us are reluctant to join in with your "rose parade", since most monks are male.

      D'oh!  Forgot about that...  Well, it looks like the female monks /msg boxen are about to be flooded...  Oops...

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      I remember a fellow "monkess" having started a list of "XY-less" monks in her home node. However I can't remember who she were. I asked her why she was building her list around a negation rather than on an assertion, i.e. "XX", and gave suggestions about users who I knew to be females, or supposed so. Whatever, after a few days, she changed her mind and deleted the list saying that probably that wasn't a nice idea at all.

      Let's face it: the nerd concentration in this place is extremely high - and I'm not an exception! ;-) I cannot say for sure, but I can imagine girls here occasionally receiving approaches, although I doubt their inboxes being flooded as it would happen in other environments.

      As for the photos, do you know about http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=Photos? If any of them has put a picture of her computer in her home node...

      I know of at least one fantastic Perl hacker, and a monk here, who recently turned a girl.

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        I know of at least one fantastic Perl hacker, and a monk here, who recently turned a girl.

        Into what? :-)

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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by spiritway (Vicar) on Feb 15, 2006 at 01:26 UTC

    I think we could break out of the stereotype of men having to get flowers for women - and only women. My boss at work (a man) gave me flowers for my birthday (I'm also male). He did *not* get me roses, though.

    I have to admit that I spent several minutes trying to figure out what that rose "function" might do in Perl, before I understood it to be ASCII art.

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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by blazar (Canon) on Feb 15, 2006 at 10:54 UTC
    1. D'Oh! nobody sent me one! :'-(
    2. Your post is not entirely OT because the /msg you propose is very perlish too. Wasn't it one of Abigail's creations originally? I seemed to remember that it was actually working code, though. I'm not really sure, anyway.
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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by shiza (Hermit) on Feb 14, 2006 at 18:25 UTC
    <3 Perl Monks
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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Feb 15, 2006 at 00:57 UTC
    ... wtf is this, I suddenly feel like a 15yr old girl on aol.


    Evan Carroll
    www.EvanCarroll.com
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Re: OT: Valentine's Day
by jffry (Hermit) on Feb 16, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
    Perhaps a Lupercalia celebration is more our speed? I'm sure there are some priests of Faunus among us Perl Monks.
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