user Beatnik My name is Beatnik, and I'm addicted to signed Perl ORA books... /me changes password... <form method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="op" value="message"> <input type="hidden" name="node_id" value="5993"> <input type="hidden" name="message" value="Now, WHERE did I leave that lubricant and my black latex outfit?"> <input type="submit" value="Come on, CLICK ! Everyone else would so why wouldn't you?? you're not CHICKEN are ya??? pwakwakwak pwakwakwak"> </form> Currently working on: <ul><li>SPINE - I picked up an old project and started porting it to mod_perl. It's great fun so far!</li> <li>A parrot version of a Beatnik interpreter... I promised acme that I would write one</li> </ul> Jump ahead<UL> <LI><A HREF="#humor">Humor</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#personal">Personal stuff</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#projects">Projects</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#goodcause">Good Cause</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#yapc">YAPC::Europe</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#books">Books on my wishlist</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#highlights">Hightlights</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#quotes">Quotes</A> </LI> </UL> <HR> <A NAME="humor"></A> The cover above is obviously based on the <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/">Llama2</A>. I got the Llama2 cover from the <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book-covers/">ORA FTP site</A>, also downloaded the Cookbook cover (for the double o in Pool) and, some other covers for the lettering. The picture is obviously Neve Campbell (a goddess IMHO). Editing was done in the <A HREF="http://www.gimp.org">GIMP</A>. Full sized cover is <A HREF="http://www.quickndirty.org/images/learningpool2.jpg">here</A>. The T-shirt version I wore at <A HREF="http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2001">YAPC::Eu 2.00.1</A> is <A HREF="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/learningpoolshirt.jpg">here</A>. <IMG SRC="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/s_womennut.jpg" ALT="Women in a nutshell"><IMG SRC="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/learningpool2_small_.jpg"> [crazyinsomniac] kinda forced me into this one... This cover was based on the <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut">Perlnut</A> cover. After several attempts of composing the word WOMEN with existing letters on ORA covers, I used a Garamond TTF to create it. I got the Perlnut cover from the <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book-covers/">ORA FTP site</A>. The picture is obviously Alyssa Milano (Requested by [crazyinsomniac]). Editing was done in the <A HREF="http://www.gimp.org">GIMP</A>. Full sized cover is <A HREF="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/womennut.jpg">here</A> <A HREF="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/gatesmonestary.html">http://www.perlmonks.org + http://www.microsoft.com</A> - Just a quick edit, since the gates + monestary was SOOOOOOOoooooooo tempting <IMG SRC="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/bat.jpg" ALT="use strict; #Damnit !"> <HR><A NAME="personal"></A> Me I'm doing Comp Sci in Leuven, Part of <A HREF="http://vlaanderen.pm.org">Vlaanderen.PM</A> and <A HREF="http://swiss.pm.org">Swiss.PM</A>, Op on Undernet's #cgi, not too crowded, friendly bunch. Besides Perl, I program in half a dozen other languages (even the ones I don't like, *cough* COBOL *cough*) I spent most of my time sleeping (about 8 hours a day). The remaining 16 hours is spent on school, food, perl, computer stuff in general. For those who doubt :NO, I'm NOT [vroom] nor his evil twin, just because we were born on the exact same day. Coincidentially, <A HREF="http:/www.yapc.org/Europe">YAPC::Eu</A> was held on the 18, 19 and 20th of september 2002 (which was when I turned 24). I didn't throw a small party tho, altho I did have a few beers.        <HR><A NAME="projects"></A> Proud Project Daddy at <A HREF="http://sf.net">Sourceforge</A> of <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://spine.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.pl">SPINE</A> - A webbased content management tool, ofcourse written in Perl. I promise, I'll release a new version in the near future :)</LI> <LI><A HREF="http://stampl.sourceforge.net">StamPL</A> - A simple <A HREF="http://stamp.sf.net">Stamp</A> replacement, ofcourse written in Perl - posted [id://52416] here</LI> </UL> <HR><A NAME="goodcause"></A> Good cause: <A HREF="http://www.cff.org/">Cystic Fibrosis Foundation</A> or if you're in Belgium <A HREF="http://www.muco.be">Belgische Vereniging voor Strijd tegen Mucoviscidose</A> <HR><A NAME="yapc"></A> Monks I met the following monks at <A HREF="http://www.yapc.org/Europe/2001/index.html">YAPC::Europe 2.00.1</A> (I eventually got there) <UL> <LI>[toadi] - check ; worst snorer ever!</LI> <LI>[olly] - not present</LI> <LI>[jouke] - check ; muchos kudos for organizing YAPC::Eu</LI> <LI>[jeffa] - didn't spotted him ; was he there??</LI> <LI>[kudra] - check ; pictures, pictures, where are pictures?</LI> <LI>[davorg] *note to myself: bring DMwP* - check ; signed book, overall nice, funny guy</LI> <LI>[OeufMayo] - check ; I want a pic of the T-Shirt</LI> <LI>[Vroom] - check ; bribed with beer, kinda</LI> <LI>[Corion] - check ; stop staring at my screen, damnit</LI> <LI>[virtualsue] - check ; what? me famous???</LI> <LI>[BooK] - check ; you scare me with code, stop it!</LI> <LI>[neophyte] - check</LI> <LI>[ar0n] - check ; beer, beer, beer</LI> <LI>[sniper] - check</LI> <LI>[pschoonveld] - check ; banana what???</LI> <LI>[busunsl] - check</LI> <LI>[clemburg] - check ; XML Pimp, drop the XML</LI> <LI>[jmcnamara] - check ; pretty cool guy</LI> </UL> For those who need to recognize me for some reason, I sometimes look like <A HREF="http://www.quickndirty.org/images/smile.jpg">this</A>. <HR><A NAME="books"></A> On my books wishlist : <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html">The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)</A> Volumes I, II and III - Donald E. Knuth</LI> <LI><A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/">Perl & LWP</a> - Sean M. Burke</LI> </ul> Currently Reading: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.manning.com/jenness/index.html">Extending and Embedding Perl</A> - Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens</LI> </ul> Non-perl books I'd recommend: <ul> <li>Perfume - Patrick Suskind</li> <li>Any Tom Sharpe book</li> </ul> <HR><A NAME="quotes"></A> If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry. Dalai Lama Memoreable movie quote : "I'm here to regulate funkiness." - The Mexican <HR> <IMG SRC="http://beatnik.perlmonk.org/henry.jpg"> Perl Geek Code: <pre>-----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 0.01 P++>+++c---P6-R+>+++M++>+++O+++MA++>+++ E >+++PU+BD-C D+S++X+WP+++MO++PP+n?CO+PO o+++G A-OL!OLC+OLCC+OLJ+OLCO-OLA+Ee?Ev-Eon+uL ++w-m! ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------</PRE><a href="http://www.xmltwig.com/cgi-bin/pgc/pgc_decode?code=P%2B%2B%3E%2B%2B%2Bc---P6-R%2B%3E%2B%2B%2BM%2B%2B%3E%2B%2B%2BO%2B%2B%2BMA%2B%2B%3E%2B%2B%2BE%20%3E%2B%2B%2BPU%2BBD-C%20D%2BS%2B%2BX%2BWP%2B%2B%2BMO%2B%2BPP%2Bn%3FCO%2BPO%20o%2B%2B%2BG%20A-OL!OLC%2BOLCC%2BOLJ%2BOLCO-OLA%2BEe%3FEv-Eon%2BuL%2B%2Bw-m!&version=0.01">Decode it!</a> I got my Saint halo on Friday, 10th of August, just before 3 PM. 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It can be redistributed under the same terms as Perl itself, unless otherwise noted. Me being (in both cases), Hendrik Van Belleghem, hendrik at ldl48 period org. 2009-07-29 14:08:28 7566 358879 784306 728 <A HREF="http://www.leuven.be">Leuven</A>, <A HREF="http://www.fgov.be">Belgium</A></TR><TR><TD>Favorite Beer:</TD><TD>Hoegaarden</TD></TR><TR><TD>Favorite Coffee:</TD><TD>Tim Hortons French Vanilla Flavoured Cappuccino</TD></TR><TR><TD>CPAN Directory :</TD><TD><A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BE/BEATNIK/">BEATNIK</A></TD> 2 90