Category: memes

The LJ Meme of the Week

Instructions:

Take a look at your LJ friends list, then list up to ten things you want to say to ten different LJ friends. DO NOT state who these people are. DO NOT confirm or deny any “comment speculation.”.

  1. Are there any news about that idea, which we discussed few weeks ago?
  2. You accepted a big challenge and were successful in dealing with it.
  3. Thanks again for the URL to that Web site.
  4. Your posts have the quality, which draws out of me creativity in composing comments.
  5. I owe you for those interesting contacts, to which you led me.
  6. Congratulations!

My LJ friends list is relatively short, so I have only six comments.

Perl is not only a programming language but also a religion

This creates a problem when one wants to discuss the state of worshipping in the context of Perl.
bless is a reserved word in Perl, and it has a specific technical meaning.

Roget’s Thesaurus came to my rescue. It offered me three alternative words: hallow, consecrate, sanctify.

Now we can start hallowing whatever is holy and sacred in the magnificent language Perl.

Are you a single woman?

If yes, read What Lies Beyond the Haze of Social Conditioning? about what happens if one expands one’s consciousness and transcends above all the trifling and trivial problems, with which normal people preoccupy themselves.

Then, if the article resonates a chord within you, send me an E-mail message. Maybe you’ll find a soulmate.

At the moment, I am eagerly reading several articles from http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/archives/, in which also the above article appears. I did not feel like this since the time I found Steve Litt’s Troubleshooters.Com Web site, which teaches you everything you need to know to be able to troubleshoot malfunctioning equipment.

The live of scriptwriters will be much more difficult now

How to Be a Successful Evil Overlord

One more point which could be added to the list:
– Do not play poker with the hero.
– Do not gamble on the hero’s loss in a sport competition.

Those points would eliminate all the James Bond movies.

One goat kid, one goat kid

One who knows?
One I know.
One world.

Two who knows?
Two I know.
Yen and Yang. Fractal duality.

Three who knows?
Three I know.
The basic linguistic concepts of subject, verb and object. The IDF tradition of dividing everything into three parts. The RDF triplet for linking two concepts together.

Four who knows?
Four I do not know.
Four only Arthur Clarke and his story-whispering extraterrestrial ghosts know.

Infinity who knows?
Infinity I know.
Infinite is the world.

The art of procrastination

Paul Graham: Good and Bad Procrastination
Paul Graham resurrecting Richard Hamming’s talk: You and Your Research
Aaron Swartz: HOWTO: Be more productive

Paul Graham would have said that all three above are good procrastinations.
Anyway, at this moment I am procrastinating.