Best. Video. Ever.

Cats and robots. What more does a meme need?

Book meme

Via the unofficial planet python, specifically Grig Gheorghiu:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Here's mine, from A Vertical Empire by C. N. Hill (a history of the british space programme):

"All this wrangling cannot have helped the progress at Saunders Roe, or the prospect of trying to sell it to the German Air Force."

Meh. Not terribly exciting. I should have gone for the cool book :-)

A bit of fun

This week's unofficial meme on the Unofficial Planet Python seems to be to name the programming languages you've learned. Here's Eric Florenzano's list (hat tip) -- it looks like the meme was started by Corey Goldberg -- and here's my list:

• BASIC (an odd ICL dialect, then Spectrum, Commodore, Amstrad, BBC, and QuickBasic)
• Z80 Assembler
• Pascal
• C
• Hypertalk (remember that? Answer 'Are you sure?' with 'Yes' or 'No'. If it is 'Yes' then...)
• Logo
• Prolog
• LISP
• C++
• ML
• Modula-3
• Neil (proprietary, probably still in use at IST)
• Java
• JavaScript
• C#
• Python

Hmm. It looks like I've slowed down. Time to pick up that Erlang tutorial again...