Re: A tortoise-rambling email

Hey, Michael, just noticed your email address. I spent
a year doing comp. chem in the UU chem department, as
it happens.

--- Michael W Thelen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:49:21PM -0700, Amir
> Karger wrote:
> > Speaking of all those hours, I've been wondering:
> > do
> > most of the other golfers spend a huge number of
> > hours
> > on each hole?
> 
> I spend waaaay more hours than any reasonable person
> ought to, but then again,
> what reasonable person plays Perl golf in the first
> place?

Wise words, my young padawan.

>  Even when I'm not
> playing it, I'm playing it.  Too many dinner
> conversations have been
> interrupted with, "Wow!  I just shaved another two
> strokes, in my head!  I have
> to write this down."

Sh-yeah. Although in my case it's more like that "wow"
happens in a though bubble, while I say "so what
happened at work today, dear?" for the sixth time in a
row to try and sound like I'm paying attention.
 
> In a thinly disguised attempt to win back my
> attention (and to have something
> in common again), my poor, sweet wife has also begun
> to play Perl golf.

Oh dear. My wife has all the right personality traits
to be a doctor, very few of which are the right traits
to be a hacker. And Perl Golf is VERY hackerish -- you
need to really enjoy spending hours and hours tweaking
something even though the end result is completely
impractical.

>  But I
> think she's gotten a little tired of it, especially
> with a baby on the way.

Good luck! I should warn you that people aren't just
saying things when they tell you you'll be busier once
the baby arrives.

>  I
> wonder if it's possible to change poopy diapers with
> poppy eyeballs...

This is not the kind of thing to say on a mailing list
that includes '/anick and /\ndrew, methinks.

-Amir

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