Portrait of a Perlmonks Potato

I basically am making a break for Southern Cal having done my time in frigid and overpriced Northern California. So, I have no obligations. I'm pretty much packed.

So, what do I do all day? I hit the Macintosh version of alt-tab and look in my email box. Delete 1 or 2 pieces of spam. Then alt-tab back to Perlmonks. I read the chatterbox. Chat a bit. Hit "newest nodes". Eat a bit of cottage cheese. Feed the deer outside. Then repeat these in no certain order.

I am just as braindead as the Classic Couch Potato. Only I have substituted DSL and PerlMonks for a remote control, a case of beer and a TV dinner.

I really should be reading perlre or something so I can refresh my memory as to what ?: does in

sub get_words {

   map /(\w+(?:'[ts])?)/, @_;

}
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Or I should be reading the Attribute::Handlers docs as this will really make me a cleaner and more concise developer of Perl Semantic Elements.

But addiction can be this way. Perhaps I should startup a

  http://www.Perlmonks-Detox.com
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program.

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Re: Portrait of a Perlmonks Potato by Dragonfly (Priest) on Nov 16, 2001 at 00:49 UTC
The best lesson I've learned over the last few years is that sometimes, the best thing is to do nothing at all. "To find the jewel, one must calm the waves; it is hard to find if one stirs up the water. Where the waters of meditation are clear and calm, the mind-jewel will be naturally visible." -Mumon Yamada Roshi	[reply]
(jeffa) Re: Portrait of a Perlmonks Potato by jeffa (Bishop) on Nov 16, 2001 at 09:47 UTC
Love to help ya, brother - but someone just posted a question about map in scalar context ... and i got this GREAT idea for a new meditation .... jeffa did you say "feed the deer"?	[reply]
(crazyinsomniac) Re: Portrait of a Perlmonks Potato by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Nov 16, 2001 at 10:57 UTC
Hmm, I too have faced this dilemma ... only piece of advice (without making any assumptions) is get yourself some tail boy, get in a brawl, or jump out of a plane ___crazyinsomniac_______________________________________ `Disclaimer: Don't blame. It came from inside the void` `perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H;,$_}split(q;;,qH*));print;$q/$q;"`	[reply]


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