Nay, it is God. Coupled with the usual unix shell commands, a bit of awk and a dash of sed, there’s no limit to what you can do with perl. I’ve been dabbling around with the scripting language for years, but when they landed me at the client site (which at times can be like [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Perl is king
Posted in comp: Coding on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My regards to Broadway
Posted in New York & Jersey, TV/Radio/Movies/Drama on July 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Once you’ve been to Broadway, you sort of have to reassess your, er, assessment of the Colombo theater scene, which, from what I hear, has fallen into some disrepute.
So I finally did Broadway. Went to see the allegedly “global smash-hit” Mama Mia at the Winter Garden Theater (50th street on Broadway). The performance exceeded my [...]
Wooosh…, Big Apple
Posted in New York & Jersey, Thinks it's Funny on July 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A steam pipe has blown in midtown Manhattan. And to think I was planning to go to 42nd street yesterday. Thank goodness I wasn’t there. I’d never have been able to tell the difference between a steam pipe explosion and something Al Qaeda would have brewed up. Not that the locals were any different that [...]
Amateur Cook
Posted in Camera-Monkey, Me on July 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Funny things happen when you’re new to both the country and the cooking/shopping bit. Just the other day I’m hunting for sausages at the local supermarket when I get this funny feeling that, even though I’ve found sausages, that I’m not quite in the right aisle. To see see it’s the kosher department. I must [...]
Misheard lyrics: Fall Out Boy
Posted in Music, Thinks it's Funny on July 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is hilarious: Misheard lyrics of This Ain’t a Scene, it’s an Arms Race on You Tube. You just have to listen to the chorus. Cats, ha!
Just for FYI, here’s a part of the real lyrics:
I am an arms dealer.
Fitting you with weapons in the form of words
And don’t really care, which side wins
As long [...]
