Rub it in, Facebook

Posted on September 01, 2010 by Dotan Dimet

This is the string of ads facebook showed me in the sidebar this morning (although now it’s showing dubious ads in Polish).
yeah, 42. f-u, facebook

Fuck you, Facebook.

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In other 40-something related updates, I picked up Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man today. Nick Charles is a 41-year old retired detective. Nora Charles is a 28-year old lanky brunette with an inheritance. They’re married, have a Schnauzer, drink all night and sleep until noon. Together, they fight crime!

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Tolkien BBC Documentary from the year I was born

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dotan Dimet

My birthday is tomorrow (the 25th of August), which is reason enough to post a link to a half hour long documentary about Tolkien and his books made by the BBC in 1968, the year I was born…

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Things I learned at YAPC::EU

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Dotan Dimet

Things I learned at YAPC::EU (a far from complete list, others may have a better one):

  • The tower is still leaning (I was sure they’d have fixed it by now).
  • DBD::Oracle might have improved since we installed it.
  • Beer is a wonderful social lubricant.
  • … and so is superb Chocolate (as Tim Bunce and Alison Randal can attest).
  • While name-dropping is fun, many of the awesome and friendly people I met just use Perl in their day job, or fiddle with perl as a hobby, or just hang out in the community.
  • PIMC.
  • I look a bit like Todd Rundgren.
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Barely Seeing Daylight

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Dotan Dimet

Comics artist D’Israeli captures a single working day in 49 seconds: Barely Seeing Daylight.

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Room under the roof

Posted on August 03, 2010 by Dotan Dimet

Am now in YAPC::Europe, arrived in the hotel at noon, walked to the con hotel (without map, based on memory of the route from google maps – street-view FTW, dumb luck and a helpful local), enjoying WiFi and listening to the audible part of a Perl6 mind-meld.

When looking for a hotel here, I got this in response to a query:

The only single room available it’s under the roof, with the sink inside, the toilet outside the door and the shower down the stairs

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