A year or so ago walking along the beach I saw a kid who was overweight, alabaster white, wore glasses, etc. quite unlike the "usual" beach crowd. However, he had the most spectacular sandcastle =complex= on the beach. Ah, baby nerds... our kind will indeed continue into the next generation. I had to offer him words of encouragement.

However, telling that story inspired me. I went back to the beach with some tools and did a proof-of-concept of a flying buttress in a sand castle.

No computers on the beach, though. The sand is just too much for it. Though a pocket-PC in a ziplock bag might be in my future...

—John

In reply to Geeks on the Beach by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Perl Lazy Surfing! by Sigmund

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