statico's Journalstatico's use Perl Journalbass on the brain- January 23, 2006 The neck of my Peavey Foundation bass guitar is only slightly warped, even after years of neglect. Despite the action being too high and needing a new set of strings, it stays in tune. I'm not bothered with its condition because it's only the beater instrument. However, when I pick the bass up and begin to play, my frustration grows. My technique has become sloppy. My walking bass improvisation has vaporized. My fingers are much more used to writing code than practicing modes and scales. I can.http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/28435?from=rss openings- January 8, 2006 The first sentence of any piece of writing is important, and last night I read one of the best openings ever written. It sits atop the acknowledgements of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a 30 lb., 3-volume boxed tome that contains every Calvin and Hobbes comic strip every drawn: "As flattering as it is to have a lavish book like this,it can be a little disturbing to see one's own careerembalmed in a box..." The ingenuity is underscored by appropriateness. Watterson downplays the magnitude of...http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/28286?from=rss switching backgrounds in Gnome 2- January 1, 2006 One reason to use open-source software is if you enjoy the ability to create or alter any of the tools you use. I use Linux and the Gnome desktop environment, and I'm confident that if there's something that I want to do -- a customization or an application -- I can probably do it in Perl. If I can't, I can probably do it in Ruby. If not Ruby, there might be command-line tools. And if none of those are available, I can do it in C.Every couple of minutes, the background on my dad's laptop...http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/28191?from=rss |