user srawls <p> Yep, that's me (Stephen Rawls) in the picture (the one in the middle; duhh : )). That was at a <a href="http://www.usfirst.org">FIRST Robotics</a> compitition. I had a lot of pictures of robots I could have put up, but I liked that one the best : ) <p><br><br><br> Here are a few nodes I like (no particular order): <p> [turnstep]: His home node explains many things about the monestary; I highly recomend reading it.<p> [id://45399|Life at the monestarty]<font color='white'>............</font> [id://45213|Camel Code] <br> [id://89075|(Golf) Kaprekar's Process]<font color='white'>......</font>[id://87656|Encoding Wonders] <br> [id://87335|brain teaser]<font color='white'>.............................</font>[id://85543|Re:Best 8 char obfuscation] <br> And here's a great <a href="http://perl.plover.com/Regex/article.html">article</a> on Regex Engines by our very own [dominus]. <p><br><br><br> I love perl golfs, so here are a few tips if you want to try your hand at it: <p> <li><code>y///c</code> is shorter than [length], but only if you are operating on <code>$_</code> <li>[pop] is shorter than [shift] <li><code>/(.)/</code> is shorter than <code>substr$_,0,1</code>. <code>/.{i}(.)/</code> is shorter than <code>substr$_,i,1</code> <li>someone will always find a way to break your solution : ) <p> 2002-01-12 02:57:42 1105 361501 images/userincoming/srawls.jpeg 136 VA, USA -4 85 on