I voted for biddy-biddy-bum since it seemed the best CowboyNeal option but I have a number of projects I would love to spend time on, in no particular order-

• Learning some other human languages -I have been dabbling in Scots Gaelic for a few years but I would also like to learn Spanish (so I can further appreciate Pablo Neruda if nothing else)
• Writing poetry and getting more of my poetry published
• I've started writing several novels and one day I'd like to finish one.
• Tree hugger/looking after the environment activities -there is always room for people with time and/or money to expend here.
• ++ other worthwhile causes
• I developed a medium level of profficiency with the flute when I was having lessons some years ago and I would love to get back to it.
• More time in the garden growing food and in the outdoors generally.

I expect I will always enjoy playing about with computers but being chained to a desk is far from my idea of bliss. If I had enough cash I would offer a bounty for someone to develop a Perl equivalent of the Starkit.

If I had enough cash I would offer a bounty for someone to develop a Perl equivalent of the Starkit.

FWIW, at the time you wrote that, these equivalents existed, Perl2Exe, PerlApp/ppm, PAR/pp

It would have little one room cabins for each monk, fiber-optically linked to the internet. :-)

/me fears the day NodeReaper forgets about his webcam

#!/usr/bin/perl -s -w
sub AUTOLOAD{$_=our$AUTOLOAD,s,^.*::,,,s,_, ,,print}END{print chr 44}
h(l_(P(a(u(J()),_(st())),o(n()),h(t()),_(er())),er())),c(a()),er(k())
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While this is going on I will find myself a sound proof room and hack Perl happily :)

Yeah! I would also do that if I owned all my time to spare it foolishly! :) ('though bum-bum yet looks like a nicer option!)
• Landlords production is only eaten by landlords...

• Wherever I lay my KNOPPIX disk, a new FREE LINUX nation could be established

Annoying Bill Gates is easy. Just talk about how great your iPod is, since it just works with iTunes, and now you're thinking of buying a Mac because ...

Or just send him naked pictures of Steve Ballmer. <shiver>

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tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub)
And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
- Chick McGee

Annoyance is too good for him - the real mission, which exists but needs more support, is to raise linux to the level of user-acceptability that Windows has no future. Invent your own 'superlinux' (or whatever you call it) theme music and pay to have it played on the radio and television - maybe a video with jennifer lopez and christina aquilera singing a duet and being generally naughty would assist the marketing.

-M

Free your mind

I don't know that being wealthy would change much. I enjoy my job, not because it pays reasonably well (though that is important when it comes to doing other things like eating), but because it provides me with interesting problems to solve and opportunities to learn new things.

I think I'd probably still be JAPH: though I might choose to do more in the way of research, learning to make useful CPAN modules better/faster/whatever, and finally getting time to make some decent obfu. ;-)

I'd fund the development of Parrot/Perl6, and try to influence things towards my preferences. :-)

I'd still be a Perl hacker. Though being rich and having the Monastery on an island paradise in the Carribbean with the gods, would be cool ,but I'd most likely be spending my relaxing days learning Perl 6.

Who is this Bill guy? What is this window's theme?

I might use money to change my life, but I'd still be JAPH.

Be well,
rir

• I'd actually be able to get a 2/4/8 year degree in 2/4/8 years without going flat broke

2 year degree in 7 years! :\

funding human-like AI research

Hey, a nerd that breaks fashion and convention! :-)

Those of us that get lots of money usually start space programs, these days...

Making a smart computer is easy, making a smart computer that doesn't want to cleanse the earth of humanity is the hard part.
Bedsides, if I wanted to do space, I'd just buy NASA. The government doesn't seem to want it much anyway.

It's quite unlikely for me to become rich. If that was my dream, I should have succeeded already, and then I might have chosen business or law rather than programming. But one never knows ...

I'd be JAPH, but still wondering what biddy biddy bum is really suppose to mean?

In the musical, "Fiddler on the Roof", there's a song called "If I were a rich man." In it, Tevia (the lead character) sings about all the things he would do if he were rich. One of them is "All day long I'd biddy biddy bum, if I were a wealthy man." Gwen Stefani recently sold a bundle of CD's with her rendition, "If I were a rich girl." (isn't she?)




Dave

Actually, Gwen Stefani's song is regrettably "If I was a rich girl." Basically demonstrating a desire to throw the subjunctive mood down on the ground and kick it in the balls, repeatedly. It's all too common these days. Probably because Strong Bad has yet to include it on a grammar CD.

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TMI...TMI...My head is going to explode!! JK, great info davido!

Paulster2


.oO( If only I could think of something perlish to write.... )

<grumble>frikkin computers INSIST on doing what I tell them to do instead of what I want them to do!!!</grumble>

Jack

I'd buy the house next door to Bill, move the Monastery there and encourage everyone to use sk's script.

My system is still running, and I can surf the web reasonably well with my 28.8 modem, as long as someone hasn't decided to make life complicated with too much Java or Flash. When I wander into an internet cafe to see what I'm missing, I usually find that the answer seems to be "I'm missing a bit, but not too much".

One day I'll buy a laptop that overpowers my desktop by a factor of a thousand. So far, my cell phone is losing to my computer, but the gap is closing...