A Challenge!

On 8 Jun 2006, at 21:21, Peter Corlett wrote:

> Dave Hodgkinson <davehodggmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8 Jun 2006, at 20:04, Peter Corlett wrote:
> [...]
>>> Whenever I take a Perl job, I seem to end up
being handed a pager  
>>> and the
>>> root password to some recalcitrant servers
within days...
>> Better personal hygeine is a good start.
>
> IDGI. EXPN?

Programmers: smart, talented, tasteful people with groupies.

Sysadmins: wookies.

-- 
Dave Hodgkinson - Music photography
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son.com/

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson
wrote:
> 
> Programmers: smart, talented, tasteful people with
groupies.

So where is amihotornot.pm.org ?

-- 
Bruce

The ice-caps are melting, tra-la-la-la.  All the world is
drowning,
tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson
wrote:

> Programmers: smart, talented, tasteful people with
groupies.
> Sysadmins: wookies.

So a beard is a programmer's inner wookie trying to escape
through the
skin?

-- 
David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world

  The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for
use.  If it
  fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or
finish will
  make it any better, it will only make it more expensive
and foolish.
     -- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries
Assoc, 1916

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:39, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2006, at 21:21, Peter Corlett wrote:
> 
> > Dave Hodgkinson <davehodggmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 8 Jun 2006, at 20:04, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Whenever I take a Perl job, I seem to end
up being handed a pager  
> >>> and the
> >>> root password to some recalcitrant servers
within days...
> >> Better personal hygeine is a good start.
> >
> > IDGI. EXPN?
> 
> Programmers: smart, talented, tasteful people with
groupies.
> 
> Sysadmins: wookies.

But the core question is which would you rather have with
you in a
fight?

/J\
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:36:07AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> > 
> > Programmers: smart, talented, tasteful people with
groupies.
> > 
> > Sysadmins: wookies.
> 
> But the core question is which would you rather have
with you in a
> fight?

That depends on whether the groupies are wookies.

-- 
Bruce

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards,
apart from
ostriches if you punch them hard enough.

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Bruce Richardson wrote:

>>
>> But the core question is which would you rather
have with you in a
>> fight?
>
> That depends on whether the groupies are wookies.
>

how about if they are psycho hose beasts?

-- 
Bob Walker
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rg.uk/
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