Reeling In The Years

[Petruchio]

I was pondering the fact that numerous... what shall we call our anniversaries here, MonkDays?... are coming up, mine included. So I started poking around, and I came upon Cmdr Taco's home node; seems he has been a user since Tuesday October 26th, and was last here Tuesday, November 2nd - which was 63 weeks ago.

You doubtless see what I'm getting at. We're fast reaching the point where, the year isn't appended to items greater than a year in age, there's potential for confusion. I therefore, if there be no argument to the contrary, submit my petition to Saint Vroom: prithee let us, as you find time, join in the great monastic tradition of counting the years.

Don't make me come out there and nail it to your door! ;-)

[Blue]

I can see it now:

"January 16th, in the year 2001 of our lord Larry, third Tuesday in human-readable format"

(Tip of the hat to the old formal catholic things that always put things in the "in-the-year-of-our-lord, third-Sunday-in eccenumical(?)-times" sort of way.)

Of course, since Date::Manip has so much overhead, we could just put it in epoch time and leave conversion to the readers. 8) Actually, epoch time in an XML tag might be useful.

=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...

[footpad]

First off, you're a few theses short.

Secondly, I doubt anyone would mistake you for Martin Luther. ;-P

--f

P.S. Excellent idea, btw...

[Petruchio]

First off, you're a few theses short.

Right! Thesis number Two: No Python!

Thesis number Three: No Monk is to maltreat damian1301 in any way... if there's anybody watching.

Thesis number Four: No Python!

Thesis Five, now this year, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking.

Thesis Six: there is NO Thesis Six

Thesis Seven: No Python!

Thesis Eight, don't go and mention a whole bunch of Monks in your posts, like chipmunk or brainpan or boo_radley or alakaboo, just because you think it'll get them to vote for you. Or like tilly or ybiC or lemming or Falkkin. None of that.

Thesis Nine: No Python!

Thesis Ten: All posts must contain serious Perl content.

Thesis Eleven: Um... use strict.

Thesis Twelve: No Python!

Thesis Thirteen: for (14..95){print "Thesis $_: No Python!<p>\n";}

Secondly, I doubt anyone would mistake you for Martin Luther.

That is, in fact, true; people usually say a young Harrison Ford. The only reason people here sometimes mistake me for a famous intellectual like Martin Luther is that they only know me through my writing. ;-)

P.S. Thank you.

Update: Okay, fine. The resemblance to Leon Trotsky is somewhat more pronounced. Thank you AgentM.

[AgentM]

Anyone wondering what Harrison Ford looks like should click here.
Update: Or Buffalo Bill?


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