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Re: Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source

by zshzn (Hermit)
on Feb 08, 2006 at 00:21 UTC ( [id://528676]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source

...ran into a fellow Perl Monger in the plumbing department at 10pm on a Saturday night...
How does one bring about the conversation with a random civilian to the topic of Perl? Do you happen to wear a sign on your back to clearly state your Perl essense? Or do you introduce yourself as such? "Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm a Perl Monger."

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Re^2: Always be learning - how a leaky pipe made me appreciate Open Source
by talexb (Chancellor) on Feb 08, 2006 at 00:47 UTC

    It was one of those random moments .. as I stood there waiting to talk with the orange-aproned Plumbing Guy at the 24 hour Home Depot at Victoria Park and Ellesmere, up walked John MacDonald (co-author of Mastering Algorithims in Perl), whom I'd just seen the previous Thursday night at Steve MacNabb's Blinkenlites presentation at the Toronto Perl Mongers monthly meeting. He'd finished doing his plumbing but the snaky bits of pipe going from the wall to the sink were old and not watertight, so he had to get replacements. The water had been off all day and his family was getting impatient. I knew all about that.

    Fortunately I wasn't too confused or out of context to be able to say hello, rather then sit there like a lump and say, "Hmm, where do I know that guy from?" Then I saw John again the following Wednesday at the Hamilton Linux Users Group meeting which he wrote up for Groklaw (see .sig). A terrific meeting with a panel consisting of Peter Salus (Unix historian), Robert Young (formerly of Red Hat, now owner of the Hamilton Tiger Cats) and Ren Bucholz of the EFF.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

    Update EdwardG has pointed out that I've mis-spelled 'author', so I've corrected it. I thought this was one of those UK spellings we still use in Canada, but I guess I'm mistaken.

      Sounds like so much fun you're having up there. I'll have to join Toronto Perl Mongers when I am a bit more local and have better means of transportation. Currently I'm living on the other side of London, but next fall I will (probably) be attending university either in Waterloo or Toronto and might at least have a car then.

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