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* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: (enter Birakay) Bikay: CHOPS! I come to defeat you both, old ones! My howitzer-up-arse Hereford attack will prevail! Bikay: Muahahaha! Your feeble strict style cannot defeat me! It is gay! roflmao, damn that almost makes me want to go to the CHOPS central and waste some time. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:38:08 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Unicycling] in the mud is good for you. It builds character. Riding over slippery wet roots is also something everyone should experience. -- John Childs
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from? The plan9 fortune file. It's the mistakes they made while they were developing it. -- yes /dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do - plan9 has a bad day
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it IN AD 1987, PERL WAS BEGINNING. ...and no one was prepared for the INFOBOT HOLOCAUST dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Don't be afraid, we're only elves. - stimps, http://mindlink.net/stimpy/
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:42:56AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've been writing Java?.. Hmm. Now, am I really sad enough to sit down and do a complete bastardisation...? Er... Um... No. ...but if y'all help... :-) Martin
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html Ooh, I did see that page once, but before the last update picture. While we're at it, http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/neuromancer.html seems equally dud. Martin
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Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:37:43AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html Ooh, I did see that page once, but before the last update picture. I like: Project phase: development hell -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
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* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Martin
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* Martin Ling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! As I was saying to someone only yesterday, movies made by a bunch of crazy geeks would be an absolute riot. Go for it. Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website - the dark force is demonic and probably vampire like, however unlike the rest of his vampire minion followers he can't be killed by sunlight, stakes etc. No he has to be killed in a certain way, of course there are two plot threads first of all hacking into his website to change the brainwashing and a crew of people going in to kill the arch-badie. Wonderful! Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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-Original Message- From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course we could make a cyberpunk movie instead, now let me thing about it Someone please employ Mr Mccarroll. My mail box can't cope with him having this much spare time. ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon
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Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Back Up My Hard Drive? I Can't Find The Reverse Switch!
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. -- diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... Alex -- I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. - Jareth, Labyrinth
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* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. yeah but with Vampires, and the sword fighting would be carried out in the real world by a young blonde female - see its totally original! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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* Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:20:59AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? They could represent the lifesucking programmers who religiously follow Booch methodology and use Java. How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? this would reduce the travelling expenses, my movie was going to be set in hawaii and i would also of needed a red ferrari for my part in the movie - i was going to supply the shirts my self - actually now that i think about it i'm still on for the hawaii idea ;-) Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... well lets look at the facts, [1] its a martial arts film [2] the heretics are out number by the repressive regime and unfairly branded as heretics therefore we win! horrah! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Sat, 12 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, London.pm - the Movie! What a great idea! Can their be vampyres? Hookay guys, I was just trying to get you to drink. I didn't think that were *actually going to want to make a movie*... Drinking rule addendum: if anyone posts a screenplay, everyone has to down a case of beer. Each. hic! :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. ObRant (sigh, becoming a habit again): 'Oh, hey! Like, I saw that Antitrust movie! I remember you're one of those Linux guys, so you must totally love this film because it's all about the geeks and er, stuff. So I think maybe I get this whole open source thing a bit better now because I heard the word in a movie! But like, you guys need to get over it. It's not like in the movie, they're not killing programmers or anything. Jeez, you guys are crazy, you really thought that? You need to get out more. Anyway, can you help me fix my computer sometime? I've got install this new version of Office so I can read my mail, but I think I have to subscribe now or something and the machine keeps crashing I think it got hacked or summat or I got a virus... anyway, see ya' Martin
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Alex Page wrote: How about a movie set in a post-holocaustic London where the surviving Perl Mongers are desperately trying to survive against the hordes of radiation-addled Java Zombies, and locate the few remaining stashes of beer and bandwidth? Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our most advanced operating system in the world which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. The first three pages, up to the line about pizza, cut slightly and narrated in a deadpan style against some suitably badass footage would make an absolutely superb start to a movie. Martin
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:01:26PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Evil Dead - the Language of Darkness. Or some kind of bizzaro martial arts fest pitching the Heretics against the True London.pm'ers (tm)... And has someone stolen our Illustrious Leader's Secret Manual? Y'know, if we just want to do cr0bar-style bastardisations [0], that's quite another (easier) matter entirely... Martin [0] http://www.detonate.net/ - Matrix was the original and best, but the others have some good bits.
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Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: Somehow I see b-movie horror mixed with independence day style computer geek saves the world. Buffy meets Real Genius meets Hackers meets Spaced meets Seven Samurai meets Pi meets Office Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers? meets Buckaroo Banzai. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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Martin Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Aha - some dark evil force creates a website (BIG FONTS) that attracts young people from the world and has lots of flashy stuff on it (ok it would be flash, but this is a movie, so its just going to be BIG FONTS AND SWIRLING STUFF) that is actual fact brainwashing the teenagers to worship the website Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. The first three pages, up to the line about pizza, cut slightly and narrated in a deadpan style against some suitably badass footage would make an absolutely superb start to a movie. They make a pretty spiffing start to a book too. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: Snow Crash, essentially. I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. You're obviously not the only one: http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/snowcrash.html -- Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was Divide and conquer not Divide and cock up (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox)
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote: I was thinking recently about how well it would work as a film. Totally. I mean, if they can make Antitrust.. :) :still laughs at: I've fixed our bottleneck! What, you realised that you've been writing Java?.. ~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My dream woman's dimensions? 1600x1200x24, for sure.
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At 10:06 PM 2001.05.09 +0100, Grep wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Lessee... Let's make a film, a travel film, involving Damien-esque programming as a plot device. We can make PIMF (Perl is my Film) tshirts to promote it, even if Randal doesn't like them. It will involve many pub scenes, Viking type raids on unsuspecting other groups (webboards might not work, but something to that effect). In homage to great cinema epic Ishtar, there will be camel scenes (but at the zoo), after which the camel will be served as supper, followed by dinner table cameos by Dr Who Willow (on a pony), who will show how to prepare for the coming Y2K crisis. That covers most of 'em. Drink up! -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... Right, so who's going to write a script that parses all of the london.pm traffic and tells us what we need to drink? Alex, what, *read* the bloody thing? -- I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. - Jareth, Labyrinth
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well i had 15 minutes to spare so i decided to do this ... (see attachment) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net =pod =head1 NAME London.pm - The Drinking Game =head1 DESCRIPTION Someone on rec.arts.sf.written (rasfw) suggested a rasfw drinking game, of course being the sensible group it is I think they were only jesting. However back at London.pm we don't joke about drinking so I felt it was time to create what the mailing list (and indeed world has been waiting for) - London.pm - THE DRINKING GAME. This is a first draft so commentary is of course welcome. =head1 VERSION $Revision: 1.2 $ =head1 YOU WILL NEED =head2 MANDATORY =over 4 =item A nice steady stream of London.pm messages. =item A lot of alchohol =back =head2 OPTIONAL =over 4 =item A Blood Mary Cocktail =item A glass of Saki =back =head1 THREAD BASED CONSEQUENCES These are thread based, that is to say they are based around threads, not messages. Consequences based around messages are in the next section, which is entitled Message Based Consequences. =head2 Take a gulp if a thread starts as or mutates into . =over 4 =item A discussion about films. =item A disorganised planning session about travel or some event. Take an extra gulp if the Heretics chip in about how good the Anchor is, or how evil the 1st falling on a thursday is. =item Another initiative is created (Such as perl-cert, european conferences, rewrite matts scripts etc.) =item A discussion starts about some OTT XML-ish object orientated mutagenic approximating distributed module concept. =item A new t-shirt logo suggestion is debated. Gulp again if people mutter about Randal later on in the thread. =item A thread starts up about pubs in london. =item London.pmers en masse decide to descend on another mailing list or chatboard. =head1 MESSAGE BASED CONSEQUENCES These are message based yadda yadda yadda. =head2 Take a sip if . =over 4 =item The camel is mentioned Take another sip if taking it out of the zoo or slicing it up is also mentioned. =item gnat makes a comment related to sex. =item dha makes a comment related to Dr Who. =item Anyone reminds Dave Cantrell about the time he stocked up on rice and tins of spam for nuclear winter that would follow the Y2K bug. =item Dave Cross snatches a bit of Sci-Fi trivia from the huge archives of his mind. =item The subject of a mail message still bears some relevance. =item Someone states that Willow or Buffy is better looking than the other. =item One of the usual suspects posts a one liner. =item A Uk resident but Non-londoner (inside M25) posts. =item Leon posts the weekly summary. =item Someone slags off selena sol, matt wright, or some other 31337 script kiddy programmers. =item PONY PONY PONY PONY PONY - ok you get the drift of this one. =back =head2 Take two sips if .. =over 4 =item Someone states that another BtVS is better than the Buffster and Willow. =item A non-UK resident but a european posts. =item Someone posts a link to a London.pm'er spotted in the wild, e.g. DJ talks about Jabber somewhere. =head2 Take three sips if . =over 4 =item A non-European but currently resident on Eart posts. =back =head2 Down the drink if . =over 4 =item Someone not currently resident on the planet earth posts =item A London.pm'er gets married. =back =head1 OTHER =over 4 =item Batch reply mode (i.e. someone catches up on their email and sends arround 10 replies all in one batch). For this take a large amount of liquid in your mouth and swallow it in loud gulps once for each message. =item Dim sum is suggested. For this one drink Saki! =item Someone posts the day after a london.pm social about how hungover they are. Down a bloody mary. =item Someone posts they just lost there job at a dot com. You should also hum that buggle tune played on army bases (i can't remember the name) =back =head1 ORIGINAL AUTHOR Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] =cut
