RE: Some pretty pictures ...
For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the ---^^^ Is that Northern for Jesus? -- matt | only a wardrobe away
RE: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest
Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal. The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they regret. Well, would *you* say no to Steven Seagal? -- matt jones 'What you have begun in anger you shall end in shame.'
RE: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
Dave Cross: And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was simply by looking at a photo. Its in the eyes, Dave, its in the eyes. See, I find it's in the personality. Which doesn't come across too well in glossy magazine. Hmmm. I wonder how you'd go about making personality pr0n? -- matt so how you gonna kick it? gonna kick it root down.
RE: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
I seem to recall some comic giving a rant to the effect of Used to be just the magazines on the top shelf, everyone knew where they were, everyone knew what they were for. Then these FHM, Loaded, etc though - huh? What are they, for blokes who aren't sure if they want to masturbate? Not just them (they're also for boys in their early teens who can't buy Razzle). And my missus is a Loaded reader. She says that she genuinely likes the articles and the magazine's sense of humour, but then she says that she genuinely likes me, so I suppose that puts her taste into question! :) -- matt so how you gonna kick it? gonna kick it root down.
RE: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women
See, I find it's in the personality. Which doesn't come across too well in glossy magazine. Hmmm. I wonder how you'd go about making personality pr0n? Mills and Boon. Well, no, I just had this conversation offlist. I'd say that personality pr0n is an oxymoron. YMMV. -- matt so how you gonna kick it? gonna kick it root down.
RE: Some Northern Irish Fun and Games ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347. stm Maybe their reason is wrong, but banning line dancing is a worthy end, surely? We could get rid of Steps at a stroke. Except Faye, of course. -- matt so how you gonna kick it? gonna kick it root down.
RE: Some Northern Irish Fun and Games ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347. stm Oh! This has to get my Quote of the Week: As far as it being sensual, that is not a word you would attribute to country music. -- matt so how you gonna kick it? gonna kick it root down.
Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Robert Shiels: Over the next 4 years, Labour will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the country will swing back to the party of low taxes, who will be re-elected in 2006. Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I think are important (decent public services) is because they've hamstrung themselves with this clueless tory low-tax approach. I genuinely believe that the public are sick of watching the NHS, education system etc wasting away on a starvation diet and would be willing to pay a bit of extra tax to make sure that their kids can get schooled and that their sick can be healed. As mentioned earlier in the thread by someone far more articulate than me, I think the Labour Party lurched to the right just when the country was moving back left again. Let's face it, it's possible to say Labour isn't working, but after the systematic dismantling of manufacturing industry, the fragmentation and decay of our rail infrastructure at the hands of private companies who sack thousands of track maintenance staff to increase profit margins, boom and bust economics leading to the worst recession in decades, deregulation of the cattle-feed industry leading directly to the BSE crisis that made British meat an international laughing-stock/pariah ... I could go on ... I'd say that conservative ideas worked a lot worse. You can't expect public services that have seen two decades of alternating neglect and red-tape frenzy, with a workforce that is completely demoralised after being scapegoated for twenty years (What do you mean we've screwed the education system - it's the fault of those loony-left teachers and their 'progressive' ideas!) to be turned round in four years, especially if the government doesn't have the guts to make a hard decision and actually raise the cash to do it. You want to reduce waiting lists and class sizes? It all costs, people. This election should be fought on exactly those lines: low taxes and ever-shittier public services versus increased tax and a national infrastructure that actually works. And do you know what? I think that people would choose the latter. I think that's what they chose in 1997 (not so much I'm sick of the tories as I'm sick of the state in which the tories have left the bnationspublic services) but Blair and chums thought it was down to their economic bandwaggoning. I have deeply unfashionable political views, though. I think tax and spend is a *good idea*. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
In 1997 the UK voted against the Conservatives. The policies being offered by the parties were close to identical. For values of conservative that are low-tax/shitty services, IMHO. The policies may have been close, but the perception of the two parties still pointed at Labour as the party of decent public services How about stopping and thinking about it _before_ throwing money at it just for a change, then? There's an old saw you can't solve a problem just by throwing money at it. Well, sorry, but you can if it's a problem of underfunding. Try telling the headteacher whose school roof is collapsing that you have to go and have a good think about his problem before you throw money at it[0]. Perhaps he could sack another couple of his teaching staff or get them to take a further pay cut? There's the Conservative answer as I perceive it. The fact of the matter is that many state schools are dreadfully short on the following: a) textbooks b) computers c) teaching staff I don't think you have to spend an awfully long time thinking hard before you see where the money needs to be thrown. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible [0] Of course, back in the day, his friendly neighbourhood Local Authority would have just fixed it, but now he's grant maintained he has to pay for everything himself.
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Just because they can't deliver those promises for those costs doesn't mean no one else can. If they knew they couldn't deliver within those cost constraints why did they lie and say they could? Because they are (right-wing) politicians. Just look at the absurd promisises Hague's lot are making now and they're also talking about doing it with even *less* money (UKP 8 billion, isn't it?) Besides, they have (more or less) kept most of the promises they made. I was talking about my disappointment that they didn't go further by raising tax revenue. The tories are going to have low tax and pay for improved public services through cracking down on benefit fraud, apparently. Gah, if only someone had thought of that before. 'Cos you can solve a long-term underfunding problem by skinting out a few dodgy crusties. .. and if they didn't reallise they couldn't deliver at those prices, then it doesn;t say much for their grasp of economics. See my point about Hague's promises above. What does that manifesto say about the conservative grasp of economics? For all their faults, New Labour do seem to be far better at running the economy than the Conservaticve party. does anyone happen to have one of those little plastic credit card things they were giving out before the last election with 10 things 'let us be judged on these:' .. Yeah, and I saw a breakdown along those very lines on Channel 4 news, which conluded that although some of it has slipped, the vast majority was achieved. However, later they ran a piece that I thought was familiar because it had been a Guardian editorial, so perhaps C4 news may have a certain slant going. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: Perl training
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/ Can you do another Perl course, please? CHOPS programming: What's in the box? This two day course is aimed at l4me to virtually pubescent Perl programmers. We aim to give students the underpinning knowledge and skills required for them to make a living killing people in Herefordshire. Programmers who pass this course will have a solid foundation of general immature bruised-ego flaming skills from which they can demonstrate their ignorance in more specialist or advanced areas. At the end of this course you should: Be prepared to post ill-informed rantings to web-based programming message boards. Be familiar with howitzer-rectal penetrative techniques Realise that for loops don't exist Understand how using strict calls your sexuality into question hem. Oh, and http://www.iterative-software.com/training/extremeprogramming.html 404s. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: More politics (was Re: BOFHs requiring license)
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that low taxes are good? Because many people think that they are better judges of how their own money should be spent than the government (of whatever flavour) is. This is something I've always wondered about. Given the economy of scale etc, how do people think that they could get a cheaper service individually? Hiring a few guys in a lorry to come to their house once a week and cart off their rubbish, security guards to make sure your house isn't robbed, paying for construction workers to fix holes in your road, private school and medicine and so on. Has anybody worked out how much it would cost to buy the same services as a private citizen compared to the cost that the state charges in tax? Also, how is a privately-run service more efficient if you have shareholders creaming money off the top. Enlighten me. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Hospital waiting lists are up, No, hospital waiting lists are down. The time spent waiting to get on the wiating list is up. :) so are class sizes in schools. No, class sizes are down in primary schools (were primaries specified on the pledge card?). Secondary school classes are level or *slightly* up, IIRC. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government drop tax. Why don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell? You don't elect BP or Shell. Well, precisely, they're companies, so you boycott them. Which is what I thought that dump the pump was originally about; boycotting oil companies in prrotest at their big markups (apparently). Somewhere along the way it seemed (to me) to be hijacked by a large chunk of the countryside alliance. The thing is, the petrol companies seem to be able to hike prices with impunity. It's not just a matter of the protestors not boycotting them, they're not even *criticised*. Shit, to hear some of these fuel protestors, you'd not think that the oil companies play any part at all in setting the price of fuel. I have an irrational and unconfirmed theory that the right wing have decided that they want a piece of this single-issue politics lark thankyou very much, and now have a group who can whine and bitch about the government for effects that are caused by someone else entirely. -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Are they in reality, or is it due to the current lot being in lower birth years than the lot 4 years ago, and hence the secondary school numbers being up now? Heh, it's pre-election statistics, so god knows what possible conne4ction to reality they may have! :) -- matt | I mean to make you move with my planet infallible
RE: UK programmers left-wing? was Re: BOFHs requiring license
(trolllhave you ever noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact that their views may be wrong than right wing people?/troll) Ah, that's because we left-wingers *are* right, and also because secretly, silently, you right-wingers know it, too. :P -- matt The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Some spokesman on the radio this morning promised to reduce class sizes in primary schools and to recruit more secondary school teachers. How can they achieve the former without recruiting more teachers? I'd assume that they would recruit more Classroom Assistants. Sort of paradidacts who seem to me to be playing an increasingly large role in primary education. Not strictly reducing the size of the class but reducing the pupil/adult ration, I guess. -- matt The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
class but reducing the pupil/adult ration, I guess. -^^ Heh. I bet it was the MAFF comment which planted that one. -- matt The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
So how, pray, do I opt out of the international oil companies' cartel? use the tube and electric trains? Most power stations aren't oil fired AFAIK. Not even then, I guess. Am I right in thinkming that many plastics are (by-)products of the refining process? So that's internal combustion engines, anything made from or out of plastics (whoa), some electricity ... -- matt The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
RE: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))
Dave Cross: You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs http://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/ -- matt | CHOPS
RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-05-07
http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/2001-04-30/2001-04-30.14:42:51.jpe g heh: http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg Did your palms sweat too, richard? -- matt | CHOPS
sing if you're happy that way
Wisty - next T-shirt please: use strict is gay Heh. On the back -w is jolly? -- matt | right hemisphere, wrong planet
RE: JOB: Another one (Banking)
How can you inadvertently hack ? "I'll just quickly knock a little something together to do task X ... hmmm, actually, wouldn't it be cool if it could also do task Y, just for convenience sake ... hmm, that works, but I'm sure it could work stronger/faster/better than before ... " And so on until it's suddenly 5am and you're out of Red Bull. -- matt | credo
RE: Silly postings
Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
anything.
I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY
coffee. However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
I expect :-) You have to beat Roma* to be acceptable.
I've had a NY pizza and it was certainly the most *foul* pizza I have ever
had the misfortune of not being able to avoid eating (*inlcuding* McCain
frozen pizza). It was soggy, in fact, *wet*, the topping slid off the base
like scabs slipping off a weeping sore, and it fell to bits. Only a sample
of one, I know, but on the stength of that, {NY Pizza}--
Said standards, BTW, give every single London / Paris pizza
/ coffee a fail mark, except the coffees I brew.
NY cawwfee, OTOH, really impressed me. I loved it. Merkan diner breakfasts
are great. Bacon and waffles and pancakes and syrup and eggs over easy and
home fries. They were very fulfilling indeed.
But what is it about NY toilets that only about three of them flushed
properly during my entire visit? Almost every time I or the people I was
with went into a kludgie, we found it blocked up by a grim combination of
ordure and bogroll. Didn't matter where we were, the hostel we stayed in,
the diners we went to, the tourist attractions, any publicly-available lav.
Ewww.
Oh and mm, turkish coffee. Yowsa.
--
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
sheik your booty
Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if you will. Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to date never seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps that quiet? Heh, have you never *seen* "our" royal family in action? It's not just the Inbred German Bint who's a bumbling idiot: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1263000/1263458.stm -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Ummm... Perl not professional??
I certainly don't consider myself "professional", even though I try to ply my trade in what I believe to be a "professional" manner. "I'm not a professional, I'm a gifted amateur." The source of that escapes for the moment. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)
True. Shouldn't we also need to include "should'nt" (etc.) here as well? . These are trivially simple rules to teach/learn - so why they aren't taught (or possibly aren't learnt) says something about the education system and the attitude of the pupils therein. I don't know which education system you went through, but I was taught all this stuff at primary school. I think it's just because the pupils couln't be beggared to learn it properly (as you suggest), preferring to subscribe to the "well, you know what I mean" school of thought. I think this could be related to the (deja) suggestion that coders have to pay a lot of attention to syntax and format in their work, and tend to bring the same approach to writing english. Designers, however ... I remember last year I helped a designer chum of mine subscribe to (void), because I thought he might bring an interesting perspective to some of the discussions. I then promptly unsubbed because of "stuff". When I came back, I found out that he'd only wanted to witter, not argue and formatted his emails a bit like this. and generally pissed people off. He still writes mails like that, all dreamy and rightbrain. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)
I was at school from up to 1995 and grammer, hand writing and similar were only lightly touched upon. IT was another subject that we never actually did (other than read about spreadsheets leading to my adult hatred of Excel) and as far as I'm aware none of my friends of the same age did any real grammer in school so you can expect a fair size chunk of 20-22 year olds to have no real grasp of what constitutes good grammar. Right, well there's the difference then. I'm 29 this year and I was schooled during the seventies. Was anyone else of a similar age *not* taught proper punctuation and grammar at school? Back in those days, teachers actually taught you, as opposed to writing long essays to justify performance-related bonuses, or running around like headless chickens to prepare for OFSTED visits. They went on strike quite a lot back then, too. Anyway, back to the point. Many of my peers and friends who were taught exactly the same punctuation stuff as me just ignored it and used things like "could'nt" and "samwich's" and so on. I reckon it's less to do with it being taight in schools and more to do with how much someone reads. If you read a lot, you see the correct forms a lot and it sinks in. Similarly with grammar, I reckon, although I have absolutely zero evidence to back that up. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)
soapboax Wrong. There was a concerted effort by the loony left to destroy decent education in favour of whatever trendy piffle that was the order of the day. Oy! That's my family (lefty teachers) you're talking about! I went through the state comprehensive system and was never touched by these so-called "trendy teaching methods". And my Dad was one of these apparently "loony left teachers". I had to unlearn the reading I knew before I went to school in favour of some stupid phonetic system (anyone remember ITA?) Nope, never heard of it. I learned to read proper english, as did everyone else I know who was schooled at that time. I have never exerienced these bizarre approaches you mention. I'm as liberal as anyone here as far as creativity, expression, society and the rest go, but there are certain fundamentals that you need before you can go out and break the rules. And that's exactly the education I got, from the state system, during the seventies, with loony teachers. It appears we had *radically* different experiences of the education system, Dave. I guess YMV. -- matt
RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills! -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was New Faces. http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so he was a token black guy without a major role, but I *think* he appeared there first. Interestingly, IMDB dewclines to mention the Minstrel show appearance *at all*. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Perl Training Courses
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only so much you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books. I'd love to help, but we're not in a position to offer public courses yet - the cost of hiring rooms and PCs is too prohibitive. Who said anything about doing them in meatspace? But fair enough. I was only asking from a "if you're doing them anyway" sort of perspective. However, please *do* give us a nod if enough interest is raised for you to start offering them. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Perl Training Courses
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only so much you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books. The mind boggles ;) No, not the *mind*! ;) Oh, I forgot to mention the Prairie Squid (de-beaked, of course). -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"
RE: Matt's Scripts Projects
Not neccesary from a techical point of view. Neccesary from a social point of view (What's this extension! I don't understand! What's going on! Excewpt that windows machines tend not to even show the extension by default, and so the file will just have a little WinZip icon[0], which means they should be happy. Oh no, wait a minute, I think it uncompresses the .gz bit then prompts for what to do with the .tar bit, which might scare them off. Just shut up, matt. -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?" [0] Or whatever handles .tar.gz on their machine.
RE: New Perl Stuff From O'Reilly
As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better. Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough. As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I suppose that's not strictly perl-specific enough to go on the perl cd bookshelf? And "Programming the Perl DBI", which I find very handy. I got my copy of the Perl CD Bookshelf because it included books that provide a reference for just about every stage of development. -- matt jones
RE: Strange Request
do you exclude this script from the archive on the basis that it uses TT? this question defines the archive of scripts a little. is the collection of scripts specifically aimed at the lowest commond denominator and tackling the MW problem directly, or is that just its core mission, and other scripts are welcome. Surely there's nothing stopping you organising the archive in terms dependencies on other modules. Sort of - this will work on anything, but if your system allows scripts to use TT, why not use *this*? -- matt jones
RE: Greetings
Cordelia Airhead Arrogant, too. IMO. Being a 8uffy refusenik, I'm a little confused by this conversation. Do you think there might be any websites about 8uffy of Sarah Michelle Gellar out there that I can trawl for info? I know it's a long shot. Hem. :) -- matt jones 'You will not know where we have struck until you have fallen.'
RE: t-shirts
We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try to get some ideas together[1]. How about one with perlperlperlperlperl printed around the neck area in a circle? You see where I'm going on this one? -- matt jones
RE: previous jobs
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible. Translated, that meant dragging sack after sack of off-cuts to a large skip, chucking them in, and then packing them down. i.e. fifty percent of my job involved getting in the skip and jumping up and down on the rubbish. Great at parties: "So, what do you do, then?" "I jump up and down in a skip." "Oh, hello Mr Icke!" -- matt you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
RE: the list
It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. OK, just in the interests of making traffic, then, here's a picture of me as a baby: http://website.lineone.net/~vineleaf/sands/gfx/mattjones.jpg You see, you have ot get your priorities right at an early age. -- matt you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
RE: Technical Meeting Venues
Speaking from a personal standpoint, I really enjoy the technical meetings and think more of them would be really beneficial[2]. I think they represent a lot of what we are us to and show that we're all not just talk 'n booze. Hence I'm anxious to see them succeed. I'd like to be able to attend your technical meetings, since compared to the majority of you lot I'm pretty green, having only been using perl for just over eighteen months. And this: Bath.pm roots showing. We used to discuss a fair amount of technical (but not necessary perl related) stuff. From this, I quickly progressed into the well rounded perl programmer I am today[3] Works for me as a testimonial to *.pm tech meetings. Tech meetings good. Learning things from sharp people good. So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? -- matt
RE: Technical Meeting Venues
the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. Eeeh, lad, 'appen tha's f'gottent' pigeon-fancying[1] and breakfasts consisting entirely of clotted blood wrapped up in guts. Mind you, as I've said elsewhere, the beer's *dead* cheap, and properly-made. Which is why I tend to drink fizzy lager in That, because I've yet to find a rub-a-dub that serves a decent pint of Real Ale[0]. Like Old Eli or Enoch's Hammer from the Sair Inn[2]. -- matt [0]Of course there's no ulterior motive for me wanting to come to That.pm meetings ... [1] Well done, Rob. [2] http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/6006/sair.htm
RE: Feelers for London Open Source Convention
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:03:52AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: The fact you are recording is "What Billboard said was number one". *That* is a fact. Why they decided it was number one isn't the issue. How about if I put up a website wherein I disclose the fact: "This is what the object code to commercial app looks like?" Is this relevant at all? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16147.html "The injunction was granted thanks to new European database laws that essentially assume data to be copyrightable" Does that mean things like the Billboard charts? They could certainly try and demonstrate an adverse effect on their revenues from licensing their listings... -- matt "The problem with youth culture and media today is that young people are given the impression that they actually are doing something, when in fact they are only needed as participants in a staged marketing event." - Wolfgang Tillmans
RE: Access Control Lists and Functions
In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect for anyone who can master it. The only Japanese I know: "Anata no zubon wa taihen kirena desu!" Not many applications. -- matt "What? I don't speak your crazy moon-language."
RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
my vote the one, the only ... Charlie's Angels That was a fun film and entertaining but I need more that kung fu and breasts to make a good 90 mins... Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Breasts are an optional bonus. Am I going to get slapped down for saying that? Other thread. ActiveState Perl. I have that on my smoke-spouting station wagon, but I tend to do most of my actual monkeying using the slightly gimpy version on my sedan. The perennial problem of wanky memory management is a huge pain with MacPerl, however. I get to use a proper sparcstation at werg, though. -- sun-earther matthew boogieboy jones of HUDDERSFIELD
RE: new years eve
This could be the ideal opportunity for that drunken Paranoia game we've been promising ourselves for so long. Yes, it *definitely* has to be drunken. It's been literally years since I played paranoia! It's by far the best RPG *ever*. It neatly sidesteps the whole "take the whole thing too seriously/powergamers" problem, and I love the BOFHly role the GM has to take on. Beautiful -- Maff-U-Jones stay alert. trust no-one. keep your laser handy. catch up.
RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? I dunno. Plot? shrug/ Here's my idea of a good plot: Wang Hoo: "Eight Castle-Smasher Fists! Feet on Seven Stars!" (sticks rigidly to form) Tsing Wa: "Left Hand Buddha Palm! Right Hand Buddha Fist!" (also sticks rigidly to form) A fight ensues. Wang Hoo: "Drunken Buddha Style!" Tsing Wa: "Watch out for my hidden attack!" (eh? -ed) "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Hey, it's that fun American release/UK release argument again (since CTHD isn't out here until... well, actually it's today. The Guardian like it too, fwiw. Never mind what country it was released in and when. If you saw it in 2000, they you're entitled to include it in your personal best of the year, I reckon. -- sun-earther matthew boogieboy jones of HUDDERSFIELD -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- GAT/IT/L d--@ s+: a- C++ UL P++ L+++ E- W+++$ N !o K- w !O M+++ V- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP-+ t@ 5+(++) !X R tv- b+++ DI++ D++ G e++ h(+) r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
