perlmeditation BBQ I caught myself staring at the screen, looking at my own [BBQ|homenode] id. "Wow, 1350.. I'm getting old in here", suddenly I found that I was thinking of node numbers in the same way that you might look at distant cousin that you haven't seen since you were a kid. Appreciation of how one came to be, growing up. Nostalgic. I doubt that Perl Monks has hit its full-mature-self yet, but it sure has come a long way... Do you remember the days:<ul> <li>When a good post was awarded 10 votes?</li> <li>When there was no #perlmonks (or trout)?</li> <li>When [btrott] and [chromatic] were scribes?</li> <li>When node ids had 4 digits?</li> <li>When there were no user monk pics in rotation?</li> <li>When the chatterbox was usually empty?</li> <li>When [vroom] actually had time enough to post answers?</li> <li>When [neshura] posted her 1st pic?</li> <li>When polls got less than 100 votes total?</li> <li>When there was no voting/expirience system?</li> <li>When you could remember all of the monks by their handles?</li> <li>When perlmonks was a habit and not an addiction?</li> </ul> (the above are not sorted in any particular chronological order, well, sorta) #!/home/bbq/bin/perl # Trust no1!