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did not write tests
[bar] 145/25%
enjoyed life outside the Monastery
[bar] 115/20%
Perl golfed with production code
[bar] 48/8%
started career as a chef and made spaghetti
[bar] 29/5%
was evil in my wording toward novices
[bar] 28/5%
posted RTFM anonymously
[bar] 17/3%
envied for my neighbors Quad core 16GB Linux server home setup
[bar] 32/6%
stole bandwidth from an open WLAN without permission
[bar] 81/14%
lied in order to keep my job
[bar] 17/3%
did some other mischief
[bar] 69/12%
581 total votes
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Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by BioLion (Curate) on Aug 01, 2009 at 11:28 UTC

    ...'meditated' about PerlNuns...

    Just a something something...

      Worth more than one ++! Real nice answer

      I wandered off in the direction of Ireland, where in many places internet is hard to find. I must say the country made me to hardly miss it. Is that a sin?


      Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

        Exactly. Their lack of existence makes them so unattainable that Monks (of the gentlemanly persuasion) are driven wild, with no choice but to seek solace in solitary contemplation.

        Just a something something...
        Don't think about invisible pink elephants.
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Gavin (Archbishop) on Aug 01, 2009 at 10:35 UTC
    Got arrested by the "Strict and Warnings" Police for non conformity!
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2009 at 06:58 UTC

    ... stored plain passwords in a database

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by ysth (Canon) on Aug 03, 2009 at 00:58 UTC
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 02, 2009 at 13:31 UTC
    ... got a black-market version of Perl Worst Practices and read it cover-to-cover late at night in a darkened room where no one would see me, by flashlight.
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Aug 02, 2009 at 08:40 UTC

    There's life outside the Monastery?

    HTH,

    planetscape

      Yes! But you won't like it.

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Aug 01, 2009 at 14:15 UTC
    Ahem. A little hacking with those Perl tools...all for a noble cause, of course!

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Illuminatus (Curate) on Aug 03, 2009 at 18:34 UTC
    Began to think that maybe Ruby on Rails was "all that". I mean, bless as a keyword? C'mon... Then, my refresh of perlmonks.org finally finished and I came to my senses.

    fnord

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Aug 02, 2009 at 12:10 UTC
    I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

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

      I'm back
      Johnny Cash Lives! Would he have used Perl?

      tubaandy
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by LesleyB (Friar) on Aug 04, 2009 at 08:49 UTC

    I sometimes wish we had checkboxes and not radio buttons

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by gokuraku (Monk) on Aug 11, 2009 at 17:20 UTC
    Decided there was only ONE way to do it....
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Aug 05, 2009 at 16:10 UTC
    ... tried to vote twice on this topic, from different computers ... and it seems to have worked ...
    Rata
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by thezip (Vicar) on Aug 05, 2009 at 21:27 UTC
    4) "started career as a chef and made spaghetti"

    This is precisely how I found god...

    What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by gregor42 (Parson) on Aug 03, 2009 at 17:59 UTC

    Perhaps it would help if there was an authoritative definition of "proper monk behaviour"?

    "There aren't evil guys and innocent guys. It's just... It's just... It's just a bunch of guys." - Steve Arlo, Zero Effect

    Perhaps there is a test that can be applied to any action that will determine how "proper" it is? Ask the questions - "Am I doing something that is helpful to another person trying to use perl? Did I at least intend to help?"

    But then there is the matter of jokes. I think jokes and pop-culture references are inherently monk-like behavior & I would call them proper.

    Lulz on the other hand can take on that Andy Kaufman quality** - where they might only be funny to the perpetrator. That borders on behavior more befitting of a Troll.

    We would like to think that Monks and Trolls are mutually exclusive camps. I repeat, we would like to think that... But then again comments like that are like chumming for flames, so my last transgression was apparently this sentence.


    ** - mind you I truly love Andy's work. Sadly however it could be argued that since the mainstream audience wasn't "in on the joke" much of the time, he had a hard time of it, especially at the end.



    Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by targetsmart (Curate) on Aug 04, 2009 at 11:45 UTC
    was forced to learn python!


    Vivek
    -- 'I' am not the body, 'I' am the 'soul', which has no beginning or no end, no attachment or no aversion, nothing to attain or lose.
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2009 at 06:53 UTC
    Yarrr says thaaar iss prrroper monk beeehaviyaaarrr?

    Nooo, I doooon't beliiiiv its.

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by xyzzy (Pilgrim) on Aug 04, 2009 at 19:06 UTC
    haven't I seen this poll somewhere before?


    Everything is true." "Even false things?" "Even false things are true" "How can that be?" "I dunno man, I didn't do it."
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Pete_I (Beadle) on Aug 09, 2009 at 08:32 UTC
    I started coding solutions to Project Euler in python.
    -- Pete_I
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by arc_of_descent (Hermit) on Aug 11, 2009 at 22:32 UTC
    I seriously need to start writing more tests for my code.
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2009 at 12:02 UTC
    ... used awk. *braces for impact*

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

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 12, 2009 at 01:17 UTC
Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Aug 29, 2009 at 10:05 UTC
    I think my response to this poll is fairly straightforward to guess...

    "did some other mischief", of course!

Re: Last time I strayed away from proper monk behaviour, I ...
by mischief (Hermit) on Aug 04, 2009 at 23:43 UTC
    Bloody imposters.

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