Re: My oh my, it's raining classical poets...

Post #87,054 by Ovid 3/10/03 11:53:20 AM 3/10/03 11:55:15 AM Reply	Re: My oh my, it's raining classical poets... I am, in no particular order: \r\n\r\n \r\n [link\|http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/personal/resume.html\|Resume] \r\n [link\|http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000\|Perlmonks Page] \r\n [link\|http://search.cpan.org/author/OVID/\|Perl stuph] \r\n [link\|http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/\|Perl stuph] \r\n [link\|http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/\|Perl stuph] \r\n \r\n\r\n Hmm ... I guess I have no identity outside of the 'net. (well, that's not true. I deliberately left off a URL which would clearly establish that I have an outside identity) \r\n\r\n The astute might notice a decidedly Perl-centric world. If Publius Ovidius were a programmer, he'd scoff at less playful languages. And he'd [link\|http://search.cpan.org/author/DCONWAY/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50/lib/Lingua/Romana/Perligata.pm#SUMMARIUM\|program in latin] ;) Of course, a glance at the resume reveals that I have many other interests. I happen to like Perl, but I'm not a language bigot. \r\n\r\n Basically, I'm just another joe who programs for a living, is trying to face the fact that he might be lookin' for a job pretty durned quick and was also impressed with the caliber of some of the conversation on this board. Plus, I know Ben hangs out here, so I kind of view that as an implicit endorsement. \r\n\r\n And thanks for the welcome :) \r\n\r\n Cheers, \r\nOvid "If I heard a voice from heaven say 'live without loving', \r\nI'd beg off. Girls are such exquisite hell." -- Ovid Edited by Ovid March 10, 2003, 11:54:30 AM EST Edited by Ovid March 10, 2003, 11:55:15 AM EST Expand All History
Post #87,068 by boxley 3/10/03 12:29:11 PM Reply	Wilkommen, Bienvenue will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]</br> "If you want to meet a group of people who have a profound distrust of, and hostility toward, our legal system, don't waste your time on political radicals; interview a random selection of crime victims, and you will probably find that they make the former group look like utopian idealists by comparison." Dave Robicheaux
Post #87,072 by a6l6e6x 3/10/03 12:50:13 PM Reply	Welcome, Curtis! Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #87,094 by CRConrad 3/10/03 2:03:26 PM Reply	Hm. One can't help but wonder, if you wanted to use... ...a literary pseudonym, why you didn't turn to ol' Edgar Allan Namesake. Would it have been too personal, perhaps, 'coz he's your Grandpa or something? :-) Curtvid over-indulges in the poetic license: Hmm ... I guess I have no identity outside of the 'net. (well, that's not true. I deliberately left off a URL which would clearly establish that I have an outside identity) Bah -- who's gonna believe that?!? Of course you have no identity outside of the 'net! Why else would you have ended up here? Ovis continues: The astute might notice a decidedly Perl-centric world. That's an exaggeration... In the sense that one doesn't have to be particularly astute to notice -- even I did! I happen to like Perl, but I'm not a language bigot. You aren't? Bah, how boring! What else are we going to flame-war about, if not language bigotry??? Fair warning: I'm a strong-typing-and-binary-compilation "bigot", so if you intend to champion that write-only line-noise of a DOS-batch-from-Hell that Larry (another Larry) dreamt up one night after a particlularly unhealthy pizza, it'll be me (among others) you're going up against. As an example, I once posted [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=49563\|this]... No, to my shame I notice (now that I went searching for it) that I actually twice posted that! (In my defence, let me point out that the posts came a little over six months apart.) Anyway: Come on, be a sport... Be a language bigot! :-) Basically, I'm just another joe who programs for a living, is trying to face the fact that he might be lookin' for a job pretty durned quick Heh -- seems I'm almost the only one who isn't overly worried about that... But I, maybe more than most, want out from under [link\|http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi\|~~Larry's~~ my current employer's] thumb. :-( and was also impressed with the caliber of some of the conversation on this board. Only some of it, eh? How DARE you not be impressed as Hell with ALL of it?!? Oh, I see -- I plain forgot -- you may not have discovered Greg's and Yendor's handy URLs to mark "Politics" and "War on Wogs" read until New Year's Eve 2100, yet... In that vein, while I remember it: I notice you surround your paragraphs with `<p>` and `</p>` tags. That's very nice and thoughtful of you (and if "Vir" Cottingham sees this, he'll be so proud of you for realising that this is a paired tag!), but AFAIK, you don't have to do that manually; the server software here replaces double line breaks with double `<br>` tags for you. (Right, Scott?) Plus, I know Ben hangs out here, so I kind of view that as an implicit endorsement. We prefer to view it as an explicit endorsement! :-) And thanks for the welcome :) You're... Er, uhm... Welcome! ;^> "If I heard a voice from heaven say 'live without loving', I'd beg off. Girls are such exquisite hell." -- Ovid That's the other guy, right? I gotta try that one out on the fiancée... :-) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #87,113 by ben_tilly 3/10/03 2:32:54 PM Reply	BTW welcome Nice to see you around here. :-) I hope that your company can stay afloat for a while. For interesting conversation, two good starting places are [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=84424\|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=84424] and [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=85043\|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=85043] - start on those threads and I will have a good headstart for running away! ;-) Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #87,127 by Arkadiy 3/10/03 3:54:12 PM Reply	Probably not Ovid but the style "rhymes": You're selling roses here, Oh girl, and you look like a rose. Are you selling roses here, or are you selling yourself? Welcome. -- It made Ketchup! Sweet Ketchup! Put it on a hot dog, put it on a burger, Put it on your sister and she'll holler blody murder! Sweet Ketchup. --Tom Paxton.
Post #87,175 by slugbug 3/10/03 9:16:18 PM Reply	Good to see ya' here, Curtis

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