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Turn Ons:
Geekiness : I am a geek, and most of my interests run that way. Sci Fi, Fantasy and the like are my bread and butter, and I need someone of a similar leaning. All of my friends are Geeks, and any romantic relationship I would want to be a part of needs a foundation of friendship.
Comfortable Beauty: I find a woman most beautiful when she's wearing the cloths she wears when hanging out with friends. Honestly, my idea of a 'sexy outfit' is a pair of jeans, a t-shirt/tank top (bonus points for one with a geeky reference), and flip flops. I realize that women sometimes feel the need to go all out with a fancy, uncomfortable dress, murder heals and an abundance of make-up, and that's fine, so long as you're doing it for you and not me, because I'd honestly rather you just be happy and comfortable.
Weight: A lot of guys I've known have a 'no fat chicks' policy. These guys always made me a little sick because they set some arbitrary weight like 130lbs, and won't accept women who weigh more than that. I have no poundage weight mark other than I would really like a woman who weighs less than me. I am overweight, and I would much rather have someone lighter than me to give me a motivation to lose weight than someone heavier than me who might make me care less about losing weight.
The Ability to Kill Spiders: I have a pretty deep seeded arachnophobia. I don't go screaming in terror of arachnids, I have control of my fear, and if there's a spider in my room I will murder it with great prejudice (the normal 'male' response to fear.) Still, a woman who doesn't mind (or likes) killing spiders is a definite plus.
Straightforwardness: There is nothing more attractive to me than a woman who knows what she wants, and isn't afraid to tell me. If I'm with a woman, my main motivation in the relationship is going to be making her happy. A woman who does away with bullshit subtlety and tells me how to make that happen is a definite plus.
Turn Offs:
Hubris: I see too much of this in the world today. People take too much pride in who they are, and as a consequence begin to see people who are different than they are as inferior. This is more of a general turn off for people in general than potential dates.
Deceit: Don't pretend to be something you aren't, it doesn't matter who or what you are there is someone out there who will love you for you if you give them and yourself a chance.
Red Nail Polish/Lipstick: I don't really have a well reasoned explanation for this one. I know red is supposed to be the sexy color in our society, but I've always found it unattractive as lipstick, and even more so with nail polish.
Judging the individual. This isn't to say I'm super judgemental or anything, I just try not to judge groups of people based on the actions of a person who belongs to that group. Be it skin color, religion, sexual orientation or political leanings. All these groups have their decent people, and their arseholes, and writting off an entire denomination of humanity because you met (or even worse heard about second hand) one of the arseholes seems supremely stupid to me.
Keeping calm/ Keeping an open mind. I think these two things go hand in hand as most people seem to lose their shit when confronted with something that goes against their world view. I thus try to keep my concept of reality pretty fluid.
Foot rubs.
Iron Druid Chronicles
Ender and Bean series
Speaker For the Dead
Harry Potter Series
Dresden Files Series
Count of Monte Cristo
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Animal Farm
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Series
John Dies at the End.
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Ready Player One
The Foundation Trilogy
Original Star Wars Trilogy, though I don't nerd rage out about the new trilogy. Were they great movies? No, but they didn't rape and murder my childhood.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tropic Thunder
Hot Fuzz
Shawn of the Dead
Cabin in the Woods
Star Trek 2009
The Mummy 1999
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
TV Shows:
How I Met Your Mother
The Walking Dead
Big Bang Theory
Doctor Who
Sea Lab 2021
The Venture Brothers
Robot Chicken
I don't really have favorites when it comes to musical artists. I've yet to find the artist who's every song I liked, and I like songs across most genres.
Artists I'm listening to right now: Dan Bull, The Heavy, MC Frontalot, Devil Driver, Amon Amarth, Deathklok, Cage The Elephant, Imagine Dragons, Rhapsody of Fire (or 'Saruman Metal' as I like to call it when Christopher Lee makes a cameo) Music from several anime series, Pentakill (LOL Metal!). Two Steps From Hell, Immediate Music. I like any song you can fight a horde of enemies or walk away from an explosion in slow motion to.
Chicken Tikka Masala (could just put Indian, but this is all I've really had.)
A Good Salad
Fairy Tail
Cowboy Bebop
Attack on Titan
Comic Books: It's been a while since I've read any new comics, but here are a few I used to follow.
The Walking Dead
Ultimate Marvel universe
Web Comics/Series:
Penny Arcade
PvP Online
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
Gunnerkrigg Court
Dr. McNinja
DM of the Rings
Darths and Droids
Goblins Comic
Dragon Ball Z Abridged – Teamfourstar
Tabletop – Wil Wheaton
Video Games:
Mass Effect
Fallout (all)
Warhammer 40k games (All the fun of the universe while spending far less money!)
Chrono Trigger (Best SNES game bar none)
League of Legends (I'm not that great, but I can ADC and Support without looking completly retarded most days. Jinx is my spirit animal)
Star Wars The Old Republic (Maybe not the best MMO, but getting 8 bioware story lines is awesome.)
Halo (mindless, but fun. What little story there is, is pretty cool.)
Dragon Age
Orcs Must Die
Gears of War (mindless,but fun. What little story there is... is also pretty mindless.)
Total War Shogun: 2
Final fantasy games through 10 (though I found 8's characters a little too emo for me)
Food, Shelter, Air, and the other essential things that don't tell you anything about me other than the fact I think survival is nifty.
Friends - I'm here looking for someone to be chief among them.
Filtered Water – I am kind of a water snob. You go so long with only filtered water and you can't help but taste all the crap in tap water.
The Internet – Because the very minute I lose access to it I get a question in my head that will bug the hell out of me until I can look it up online.
A pencil and paper – For drawing/writing down all the random things my Imagination comes up with.
What I would do with my winnings if I hit the lotto jackpot.
What in my current surroundings I could use as a weapon in case of zombie attack.
Going over the reasons for, and defenses for my moral beliefs.
2. I am a macrophile, and have been at least since I was somewhere around three years old (probably before that, but 3's about as far back as the memory goes.) If you're curious about what this is, look it up, just don't believe the bullshit about it being something that came about with the internet. Had it before the internet was really a thing (or at least before I had access to it), I think it was just so rare that communities didn't start forming until people could connect across the world.
You don't hate people based on things such as race or sexual orientation.
You want to geek out to a stranger about anything listed in the entertainment section above.
CIS women only please. I have nothing against transgender people, I just don't want to have a romantic relationship with one.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Urban Meyer didn't have to report to his day job this weekend. But the Ohio State Buckeyes coach was still put to work at home.
After returning from a full day of recruiting around the state of Ohio on Friday, Meyer apparently used his bye weekend to catch up on some housework. Meyer's wife, Shelley, caught him cleaning the windows on Saturday morning, snapping a photo to prove that the three-time national champion has to do a few chores like anybody else.
What does @OSUCoachMeyer do on bye weekend. This. Nice job. #urbsbyeweekend pic.twitter.com/fE1ZC7HlSN
— Shelley Meyer (@spinnershells) September 24, 2016
Meyer didn't sound quite as relaxed early in the week as he broke down film and saw several areas of improvement he wanted corrected, even after dominating Oklahoma on the road last week to improve to 3-0 early in the season. The Buckeyes had a few too many penalties, struggled at times to get aligned on offense and had a couple defensive breakdowns that caught his attention.
"I was hoping that everyone would see it the same way I did, and they did," Meyer said on Tuesday. "There is still so much room for improvement."
Defensive end Jalyn Holmes joked that Ohio State "left some meat on the bone" against the Sooners. But before going back to the office on campus to correct any of those issues, first Meyer had to make sure the windows at home were as spotless as his record so far this year.

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Here are Ian and Alan celebrating Ian's suprise gift – a set of 30th Anniversary Doormats for the entranceways at Axiom.
At the festivities, we noted that the majority of staff at Axiom have now crossed their 15-year mark with Ian. It's been a wild ride! Ian's mother, Freddie, was acknowledged as the oldest employee, and remembered driving with Ian from coast to coast, spelling off between stops, as he set up dealers in 1980.Log in


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In the thousands of words in the report from Tow, based at the Columbia School of Journalism and written by some of the finest minds in the field, there is a glaring void. There is no real consideration of cultural dialogue and criticism, perhaps the fastest shrinking segment of mainstream media today. Journalism worth doing is defined as investigative, watchdog journalism, the stories that somebody, somewhere doesn't want written. I would agree that this is the core of good journalism. »Read Full Blog Post(9)
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After two series involving 12 priceless episodes of "Fawlty Towers" — one of the great sitcoms of all time — authors John Cleese and Connie Booth called it quits, partly because they were concerned a third series could bring a falloff in quality.
Watching the patchy Theatre Unchained production on Saturday night of three "Fawlty" episodes — "The Germans," "The Kipper and the Corpse" and "Basil the Rat" — I found myself wishing it had followed Cleese and Booth's example. »Read Full Article(2)
'Gravity' meets the government shutdown on 'SNL'
After hitting the mark with its Miley Cyrus-centric episode last week, "Saturday Night Live" slipped back into its familiar monotonous groove with an episode hosted by Bruce Willis.
The highlight might have been the opening "Gravity" meets the government shutdown sketch that opened the show. »Read Full Blog Post
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The Minnesota Twins could be in pursuit of several starting pitchers in the free-agent market, including Zack Greinke, Brandon McCarthy, Anibal Sanchez, Edwin Jackson and Joe Saunders, according to John Shipley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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Marilyn Manson fans, rejoice! The title, track list and apparent artwork of the Antichrist Superstar's upcoming album have been unveiled.
Marilyn Manson fans, rejoice! The title, track list and apparent artwork of the Antichrist Superstar's upcoming album have been unveiled.
At a rare Manson club show, Johnny Depp and Die Antwoord rapper Ninja joined the Antichrist Superstar onstage for a performance of 'The Beautiful People.'
Marilyn Manson has released a new song, 'Third Day of a Seven Day Binge,' and the track points toward another progressive step for Manson's signature sound.
'Sons of Anarchy' season 7 roars out its 1st episode of the final year, "Black Widower," as Jax returns from prison with the goal of uniting the club and avenging Tara's murder, while Gemma and Juice fret over their mutual secrets, and Unser makes a shocking discovery that puts him at odds with the club.
Marilyn Manson has posted a photo of himself with Courtney Love at the 'Sons of Anarchy' premiere party, with a controversial caption.
Marilyn Manson has been engrossed in acting lately, but out of nowhere, Manson has teased the completion of his ninth studio album
Emigrate, led by Rammstein's Richard Kruspe, will release 'Silent So Long' in October.
Yesterday saw FX's biker bro drama 'Sons of Anarchy' planting a flag on September 9 for its seventh and final season premiere, but there are even more SAMCRO goods in store before next Sunday's Comic-Con 2014 panel. Check out our first photo from the 1 hour 45 minute premiere with guest star Marilyn Manson, and be prepared for some spoilery new details of the final 'Sons of Anarchy' season at hand!
Marilyn Manson has tweeted a photo of a jailhouse scene from the upcoming season of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
Marilyn Manson just had two shows in Russia canceled, one due to a bomb threat and the other due to a protest over the content of his performance.
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Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg
|Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg
20 November 1875
Kemberg, German Empire
|10 November 1944
(aged 68)
Berlin, Plötzensee Prison
|Protestant [1]
|Elisabeth von Sobbe (1908 - 1910)
|Christa-Wernfriedis von der Schulenburg
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (20 November 1875 – 10 November 1944) was an early Nazi supporter and German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa. He began his diplomatic career before World War I, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries. He turned against the main Nazi Party and joined the conspiracy against Hitler. After the failed 20 July plot in 1944, Schulenburg was accused of being a co-conspirator and eventually executed.
He was a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John, which was regarded with disfavour by the Nazis.[1]
Diplomatic career[edit]
Schulenburg was born in Kemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, to Graf[2] Bernhard von der Schulenburg. After one year serving in the army, he studied law in Lausanne, Munich, and Berlin, and in 1901 joined the Foreign Office's consular service as a junior civil servant (Assessor). By 1903, he had been appointed as vice-consul at Germany's consulate general in Barcelona, and in the years that followed he found himself working at consulates in Lvov, Prague, Warsaw, and Tbilisi. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Schulenburg returned to the military, and after the First Battle of the Marne was promoted to captain in October 1914 and put in charge of an artillery battery. In 1915, he was posted as German liaison officer to the Ottoman Army on the Armenian Front. In 1916, he took over the command of the Georgian Legion in the struggle against the Russian Empire, until its collapse in 1917. During his time in the military, he received the Iron Cross and some high Ottoman honours. After the German Empire's collapse, he was captured by the British and interned on the Mediterranean island of Prinkipo (now called Büyük Ada), returning to Germany in 1919. Schulenburg was then reinstated in the Foreign Office Service and became German consul in Beirut.
Schulenburg served as the German ambassador to Persia from 1922 until 1931, when his visit to the ancient monuments at Persepolis resulted in his name being engraved at the Gate of All Nations, as seen in a photograph. From 1931 until 1934 he served as the German ambassador to Romania, before being posted to Moscow as the last German envoy to the Soviet Union before the invasion of that country by Germany in 1941.
Noble estate[edit]
In the 1930s, Schulenburg acquired the Burg Falkenberg, a castle in the Upper Palatinate. He had it converted and renovated to serve as a retirement home. This monumental work was undertaken between 1936 and 1939.
Resistance activities[edit]
After the First World War, Schulenburg got his diplomatic career going again, becoming, among other things, an envoy to Tehran and Bucharest. In 1934, he was appointed German ambassador to the Soviet Union. Schulenburg favoured an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union, and was instrumental in bringing about the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939. After the Soviet invasion of Poland, despite the state of war between Germany and Poland, he used his position as the most senior ambassador in Moscow to allow Polish diplomats (including ambassador Wacław Grzybowski) to leave the Soviet Union, when the Soviets tried to arrest them.
Schulenburg was kept in the dark about Germany's planned invasion of the Soviet Union. He only knew for certain that the invasion was taking place a few hours before it was launched, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop cabled him a message to read to Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov justifying the invasion. He did, however, get suspicions of what his government was planning to do in the spring of 1941. To the last, he tried to thwart any talk of invasion by such means as hinting at the country's military strength and the unassailability of its industrial reserves. He is quoted as having said to Molotov on the morning of the attack: "For the last six years I've personally tried to do everything I could to encourage friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany. But you can't stand in the way of destiny."[3]
After the German aggression began on 22 June 1941, Schulenburg was interned by the Soviets for a few weeks, then was transferred to the Soviet-Turkish border. Thereafter, Schulenburg was assigned as leader of the Russia Committee, a Foreign Office post with no political influence that neutralized him. He later joined the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler in the hope of reaching a quick peace agreement in the east. He was ready and willing to negotiate even with Joseph Stalin on behalf of the plotters. Had they been successful in overthrowing Hitler, Schulenburg would have been a high-ranking official in the Foreign Office; some sources had him listed as foreign minister. Schulenberg's plans for post-Hitler goals in the East were similar to those of the Nazis on many points, and he believed that the Russians and other Eastern European nations could be easily subjected to German supremacy as they were "young people untouched by western civilization" of "simple faith"; in Schulenburg's view Europe was to be dominated by Germany, which would annex lands stretching up to Vilnius, Minsk, and Lublin in the East, to Prague and Brno in the South, and to Groningen and Liege in the west.[4]
After the failure of the attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944, Schulenburg was arrested and charged with high treason. On 23 October 1944, the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court") sentenced him to death, and he was hanged on 10 November 1944 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.
He married from 1908 to 1910 Elisabeth von Sobbe (Burg bei Magdeburg, 14 March 1875 - Wolframshof, 6 July 1955), and had a daughter:
- Christa-Wernfriedis Hanna Margarete Engelberta Gräfin von der Schulenburg (Prague, 29 December 1908 - Tischenreuth, 17 November 1993), married to Max Wolfgang, Freiherr von Lindenfels (Wolframshof, 12 July 1908 - Wolframshof, 28 November 1982)
See also[edit]
- ^ "The Knights of Saint John in Germany". GREAT ORDERS OF CHIVALRY. Retrieved 21 Nov 2013.
- ^ Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.
- ^ Stalin ignores warnings at pbs.org
- ^ Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance Under the Third Reich Hans Mommsen page 161
- Schorske, Carl "Two German Ambassadors: Dirksen and Schulenburg" pages 477-511 from The Diplomats 1919-1939 edited by Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg.
- Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg in the German National Library catalogue
- Plötzensee Prison
- Short biography and portrait photo of Graf Friedrich Werner
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The September/October 2016 issue of Glass Art continues the magazine's comprehensive coverage of hot, warm, and cold glass beginning with up-and-coming artist Grant Garmezy's high-end, realistic glass sculpture honoring the natural world of the South. International glass is represented in articles featuring the stained glass of Barcelona's Palau de la Música and the electronic resource, The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking by artist and scholar William Gudenrath, released by the Corning Museum of Glass. Bild-Werk Frauenau's Perspectives of Graal Glass, a symposium and master class, is also showcased.
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9/28/2016 | Blue Jays proud to return to Montreal for exhibitions
The Blue Jays will continue their recent tradition of playing preseason baseball in Montreal when they take part in a pair of games against the Pirates in 2017. Toronto announced on Wednesday that it will face Pittsburgh at Olympic Stadium on Friday, March 31, at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday, April 1, at 1:05 p.m. to wrap up exhibition play.
9/28/2016 | O's ride Kim's pinch-hit clout, cut Toronto's lead
The Orioles' Hyun Soo Kim came through with a pinch-hit two-run homer with one out in the top of the ninth inning on Wednesday night at Rogers Centre, turning what was on track to be a discouraging loss into a 3-2 victory over the Blue Jays. The win pulled Baltimore within one game of Toronto for the top AL Wild Card spot while also maintaining the Orioles' two-game cushion over the Mariners, who defeated the Astros earlier Wednesday. Detroit dropped to 1 1/2 games back of the Orioles, pending the result of its game on Wednesday night against Cleveland.
9/28/2016 | Travis remains out with left shoulder injury
Second baseman Devon Travis was held out of the Blue Jays' lineup for the second consecutive game on Wednesday night because of a left shoulder injury.
9/28/2016 | Ubaldo-Stroman finale will swing AL WC race
In what could be a preview of next Tuesday's American League Wild Card Game, the Orioles and Blue Jays will wrap up their three-game series with a rubber match on Thursday evening at Rogers Centre.
9/27/2016 | MVP Hall among players named to T12 All-Star team
After last week's fourth annual Tournament 12 presented by New Era, which ended with Ontario-Black coming out on top, the Blue Jays Baseball Academy named an All-Star team.
9/27/2016 | Blue Jays outline Dunedin renovations proposal
The Blue Jays have taken the first step in making sure that the city of Dunedin, Fla., will remain their Spring Training home for at least another 25 years.
9/27/2016 | Benoit could be out for season after dustup
The benches-clearing fracas between the Blue Jays and Yankees during Monday night's game has led to a pair of potentially devastating Toronto injuries. Right-hander Joaquin Benoit sustained a torn left calf muscle during the melee, and he might be forced to miss the rest of the season. Second baseman Devon Travis aggravated his surgically repaired left shoulder and is currently listed as day to day.
9/27/2016 | Liriano, Tillman set for matchup of Wild Card hopefuls
The Blue Jays and Orioles have gone toe to toe all season, so it's no surprise the two teams are battling at the top of the American League Wild Card standings.
9/26/2016 | Benoit injures calf, Travis hurts shoulder
Toronto reliever Joaquin Benoit injured his calf and had to be helped off the field after the second bench-clearing incident in the Blue Jays' 7-5 loss to the Yankees on Monday night at Rogers Centre. Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis also left the game with a shoulder injury, although it was not immediately clear how it happened.
9/26/2016 | Letting catchers do the thinking, Cecil thriving
Brett Cecil stopped shaking and started dealing. For much of the past three years, the Blue Jays' reliever has essentially called his own game. He often shook off the catcher's signs until he got the one he wanted.
9/26/2016 | Yanks, Blue Jays clear benches twice
A trio of hit-by-pitches led to the Blue Jays and Yankees clearing their benches twice early in Monday's 7-5 Yankees win at Rogers Centre.
9/26/2016 | Blue Jays' WC lead cut to one in loss to Yanks
In a game marred by two early benches-clearing incidents, the Yankees scored five runs in the ninth inning -- three coming on homers by Mark Teixeira and Aaron Hicks -- and defeated the Blue Jays, 7-5, on Monday night at Rogers Centre to win the finale of the four-game series.
9/26/2016 | Blue Jays yet to name potential WC starter
With so many moving parts in the American League East sweepstakes, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was in no position Monday to pinpoint his starting pitcher if his team wins an AL Wild Card berth.
9/25/2016 | Carrera's safety squeeze sets up walk-off win
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9/24/2016 | Gibbons: Bautista 'right guy, right time'
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9/24/2016 | Bautista's blast extends Blue Jays' WC edge
The Blue Jays widened their lead for the top spot in the American League Wild Card race as Jose Bautista's three-run home run in the eighth inning broke a scoreles tie in Toronto's 3-0 win over the Yankees on Saturday at Rogers Centre.
9/24/2016 | Liriano whips up vintage performance vs. Yanks
Devon Travis was only 15 years old when Francisco Liriano became an instant star at 22 as a rookie with Minnesota in 2006. They're teammates now, but Travis vividly remembers admiring Liriano as he posted a 12-3 record and 2.16 ERA that year.
9/23/2016 | Yanks, Jays continue Wild Card clash in Toronto
The Yankees' playoff hopes are dwindling, but a momentum-building win in Toronto could swing the tide forward. On the mound for New York on Saturday at Rogers Centre will be left-hander CC Sabathia, while the AL Wild Card-leading Blue Jays counter with Marcus Stroman.
9/23/2016 | Blue Jays break out, push Yanks back in WC race
After Francisco Liriano's six shutout innings preserved a narrow lead, the Blue Jays' previously struggling offense erupted for four runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth en route to a 9-0 win over the Yankees on Friday night at Rogers Centre.
9/23/2016 | Blue Jays reportedly staying in Dunedin for 25 years
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9/22/2016 | Inbox: Sanchez in line for potential WC Game?
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9/21/2016 | Bautista rises to occasion, hits game-tying HR
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Laszlo Molnar(lacxox)Hungary
These are the last days before Fall and I haven't even looked back to 2015 yet. Days are busy when you have three very active kids. But now or never, I do it fast.
Looking at this graph it is visible that my # of plays started to grow when (in 2012) Miska started to play with me a lot, then it got a big jumop in 2014 when my second kid (Borcsa) also joined us often. 2015 was an exhausting year for me so I had a bit less time and energy for gaming than before.***
Once again I failed with my 10x10 challenge, even though I tried to make it more varied and less limiting. The main problem is that as board gaming is a social thing, I should force my will on others if I wanted these lists to succeed.
But I just don't want to force anyone which does not mean I won't play these games later. For example I almost didn't play any GIPF games in 2015 (even if it was an aim) then I played quite a few two months later. I didn't play PitchCar at all because of the little hurricane at home but did play it five times on a day in the beginning of the year... and so on.***
My opinion about the games published in 2015 was published a month ago as a list:
Published in 2015: Best and Worst games I've played and what remains to be tried. Opinions&suggestions are welcome!***
I used to write about Knizia's previous year as well. I do it short here. Reiner Knizia seems to have moved on to very simple family games and general toystore items completely. It does not mean I did not play his new games - I have already recorded 52 plays of 9 different new Knizia games published in 2015.
As for new big box games not for kids, the designs worth mentioning were published by small foreign publishers like Amphipolis (probably a design requested by the Greek Touristic Office) and Polynesia (by Russian publisher Zvezda). The former is a very simple, but still rather thematic Ra-like game (without auctions), actually surprisingly popular with my family. The latter is a kind of trading game which uses a mechanism for trading that I haven't met in any Knizia designs since 1990 when it was used by a simpler dice game included in the book Neue Taktikspiele mit Würfeln und Karten. Stingy, a small-box, small-scale Knizia also feels to be something based on an old design which I have never met - I think the math behind it is more interesting than the game itself (and there were other small-market Knizias like Office!, Motto, Pan tu nie stał! Demoludy...)
Two good expansions saw the light to popular Knizias, but both were relatively old designs - Heckmeck Extrawurm (a cute Pickomino expansion) was in development hell for years and Carcassonne: The Castle - Falcon was also waiting to be published since 2012 or so before it was uploaded to be a PnP (therefore, unfortunately not that usable) expansion. And, of course, there were the new, fancy editions (Tigris & Euphrates, Samurai) just to show new gamers the golden ages and new releases (Res Publica: 2230AD, RevoltaaA, Icarus) changing almost nothing to the original game.
Anything that's somewhat interesting was done for children, or more like families gaming with children, and even there, the most innovative idea was not a new mechanism but a technical solution to a problem Knizia has found a few more or less working solutions before, when he designed games with some electronic, talking component before - how to know where players' pieces are located? For this, Die Insel used a large electronic board, you had to push buttons on a box to say where you are in Whoowasit?, the new edition of King Arthur used a phone app to track movement, but here, in Captain Black you place the talking device - an impressive 'living dead' captain figure on the space where you are where it recognizes the location by some clever use of a binary code communicated through concentric circles. The board of Captain Black is also huge and impressive and while mechanism-wise there is nothing novel here, this is a good cooperative activity for kids.
Ravensburger released a few other family- and general toystore-friendly titles as well, like Drachenhort, which is like a game halfway between Winner's Circle and Abandon ship with an interesting idea on how to move your pieces (count only free spaces) and another interesting solution (not really a mechanism, but still a bit used like one) for showing if the adventurer pieces are active or not (after they are moved, they are placed in the dark and you can only move pieces that are in the light; however some interesting exceptions turn this non-mechanism solution into an important part of the mechanism).
Also, besides a Filly Butterfly-themed kids' game, two other Disney games were published, and by Disney game I mean Star Wars here. One of them was released only by 2016 so I won't talk about it here but the other one, Star Wars: Galaxy Rebellion is, in my eyes, a dice game somewhere hafway between Code Cracker and The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey. (Yes, I think it's underrated even though it's definitely not a game for gamers.) But there was another dice game worth mentioning. Mmm!, which combines the idea of the very low-rated Sudoku Würfelspiel and once again some aspects of THe Hobbit: Unexpected Journey, won the Austrian Game of the Year award and was nominated for Kinderspiel des Jahres (Children's game of the year). Published by Pegasus, the game's age recommendation seems to have been decided by gamers as it can be okay for a 5-year-old gamer kid, but the complexity of the decision tree makes it a lot more an age: 8+ game like comparable Knizias (Pickomino, Star Wars Galaxy Rebellion, Vegas, Sudoku: Das Würfelspiel).
So... Knizias of 2015 largely lacked innovation but still could work fine with family and kids (but not with gamers, ultimately).***
So, what about this year? I already own a new Knizia and played it a few times, but things aren't really going to change for him. But what about me? It seems things don't change much - I still buy too many new games (see the list of my purchases this year: Do I even play the games I buy this year? Lacxox's Bought and played in 2016)
I just decided I don't do real challenges this year even though I set a few simple aims.
I wanted to learn my 50th game published in 2015 in order to be able to write my usual yearly list. I did, see above. Now I want to learn 50 games published in 2016 until next summer.
I want to have 10 dimes this year. I'm not pursuing this aim but would be happy to have it completed by the end of the year. So far so good, I'm at 5 dimes and could reach 10 dimes by 9 plays if I wanted to.
In the beginning of the year my H-index was 25, I want to reach 30. I think it's quite probable that I can succeed. To help in this, I started my H-index geeklist. Lacxox's Quarters and H-index geeklist
These three aims show how I think about board games - I'm a cultist of the new as much as one who likes to play the same games multiple times: I'd love to play all my games at least ten times while I want to play many games a lot more than that.
I have also become (again) one of the members of jury of the Hungarian Board Game Awards which gives me some extra board gaming energy even though the 2014-2015 crop (the games published in Hungarian we can select from) is way weaker than the 2016 crop.***
I think I should finish this now, so I do.
Happy gaming for 2016!
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Lately I've been thinking about my early years in Amarillo. My mother still lives in the house where I lived when I went to Tascosa and Amarillo College, and I visit her often. Inevitably we discuss those times, back when my father and older brother were alive and we were a family intact.
Every time I pass the corner of Julian and Georgia, I see, on the southeast corner, the first house we rented when we came here from South Dakota in 1960. Every time I read something about our local production of "Texas," I remember being in Neil Hess' art class at Austin Middle School as a seventh-grader.
It's a fact of older life. Time accumulates some baggage for us whether we want it or not.
One of my most searing memories is of my first day at Austin Middle School. At that time, middle school (junior high school) consisted of grades seven through nine; high school grades 10-12. And even though I had actually started school in El Paso, I was shocked to return to Texas after years in Maine, New York, California and South Dakota.
Walking into a P.E. class that was already under way, I was physically intimidated by the "coach" (threatened with "swats") because I neglected to call him "sir." He informed me that in Texas schools, we treat teachers and other adults with respect, and that meant saying, "Yes sir/no sir, yes ma'am/no ma'am," or suffer for our disrespect.
The coach, whose name I recall as Johnson, was as bellicose and belligerent a man as I ever met in public school, and his reliance on threats and fear to "keep us in line" meant that he lost the respect of everyone I came to know in my brief tenure there. (I went to Crockett for grades eight and nine.) We still called him "coach" and "sir," but it was with silent contempt.
Part of what was so baffling to me about this episode was the utter lack of necessity for the threat, the intimidation or the force. I'd already been whipped by a father who could be provoked by the antics of his children into a white rage. My older brother and I already were obedient. And, too, we were quite respectful of adults, even though we had not grown up with the custom of addressing them as "sir" or "ma'am."
My father was an officer in the Air Force. Every friend and acquaintance of his that we met, we called by his rank and last name. (Although back in the early '60s, there was a Capt. John Smith at Amarillo Air Force Base, and we all had trouble keeping a straight face when we spoke with him.)
My father was a man to be respected as well as feared. He had spent World War II in China. My mother has a casual picture of him there. Clad in khakis, hat low over his eyes, squatting on the ground in front of a wooden building ... holding a Tommy gun.
We all knew what my father and the rest of his generation had accomplished in defeating the Axis, even though I never heard more than two stories from my old man's lips in my entire life, each story told only once. Respect for him transcended any defects of his personality. Constant exposure to others like him ingrained in us children a reflexive and instant obedience, impelled only by a quiet word here and there.
But I learned a valuable lesson about Texas schools that day. How things were done here at that time was vastly different from how things were done in other public schools I had attended, and the biggest difference was the emphasis on "form" over "substance." Even then most of the kids I ran into at school could barely read. They had been taught "word recognition" instead of "phonics," and so reading in public was an ordeal for everyone.
In previous schools, when I came across a word I didn't recognize or couldn't pronounce, I was first told to "sound it out." What I ran into here was public recitation during which a mispronounced word was simply corrected by the teacher so that the student would recognize it the next time.
But obedience was the name of the game, and the way obedience was instilled betrayed a very poor understanding of human nature in general and children in particular.
Most children do want to please the adults around them. And most children learn quickly to never trust those who intimidate, threaten or strike.
I've been wrapped in these thoughts for some time now. The trigger for me was the young woman who allegedly put a child in a refrigerator at a preschool here in Amarillo.
And I've just been wondering if anything important here has really changed in half a century.
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Please test this CPAN developers release on your platforms to confirm that
there are no regressions from the last stable release. ... Actually,
please do report any and all errors you can see, i am VERY keen to see
what other issues this throws up on different platforms.
This update has seen a LOT of changes since _03/_04, but the main ones are
Thanks to all the feedback i got, i was able to nail things down better and make a new dev release that should at least fix the glut regression:
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If no problems crop up, this will be released as 1.220 on tuesday, 2014-11-11.
I am not picky about which way it is sent to me, but feedback is best provided here: Github Issue #92
The changes in this release are:
Since the release candidate only minor changes affecting the release process itself have been made.
The change log has a detailed listing and the git repository is even more detailed (it even has tags if you clone it). That said, the summary of the changes is:
I already posted this before too, but it bears repeating: This release has been made possible almost entirely by the contributions of Tom Wyant, Olivier Mengué, David Steinbrunner, Kevin Dawson (bowtie), Matthew Horsfall (alh), massive amounts of work by Mike O'Regan, more help and most importantly the blessing of Adam Kennedy and moral and substantial support by Matt Trout. Thanks to all of you.
Also, thanks to all of you who tested the release candidate and gave me the confidence to do this release.
Lastly, to address a question brought up by Buddy Burden and a few others: How does PPI deal with new syntax? At this point, no decision has been made on that. PPI is currently version-agnostic and simply regards what it parses as a perl document with indeterminate version requirements and global validity. There will need to be decisions made regarding two different kinds of version implications:
PPI has a stated goal of "never die, even if the code is invalid, parse it as far as possible". This means new API features on PPI itself will need to be implemented to sanely handle things. Input in the PPI issues on github is very welcome on this matter.]]>
After Adam Kennedy made his last release of PPI in February 2011 with 1.215, the contributions of Revision: Tom Wyant, Olivier Mengué, David Steinbrunner, Matthew Horsfall (alh), massive amounts of work by Mike O'Regan, more help and most importantly the blessing of Adam Kennedy, moral and substantial support by Matt Trout, and some work by myself, the first release candidate of PPI in 3.5 years is now on CPAN, soon to be a real release.
The change log has a detailed listing and the git repository is even more detailed (it even has tags if you clone it). That said, the summary of the changes is:
If you use PPI in any capacity, please test it and let me know what your results are, BOTH bad and good. Bad results preferrably in the github issues.
My expected release time for this is the early european evening on the 15th of August.
If you would like to test it, but need more time, please also let me know. I'm fully willing to push the release date back as far as is needed.]]>
Since i can't just step through XS in the perl debugger, i had to debug via printing to the command line. However the XS in OpenGL.pm seems to swallow all output to STDOUT. Leont suggested it might be the test harness, but at that point i wasn't even running in a test harness. Even with bulk88 weighing in nobody actually knows why it does that, however the solution was fairly easy:
In XS croak() and warn() are provided and even work akin to printf.
Adding a whole lot of debug statements like that, i narrowed it down to an offending free() causing the crash. However it wasn't a double free and the address being freed was still the same as given by the original malloc. This means that something else was writing outside its allocated memory. So, the next problem:
Did i mention yet that i'm on Windows? For those of you who don't already know that, now you know. :)
Now, manually figuring out which parts of a C program are misbehaving in their memory accesses is very tedious. Luckily there are automated tools, like valgrind. However valgrind has no windows port. Some googling however did turn up a number of windows alternatives, the first of which turned out to be instrumental in solving this issue:
Before i could get going with it though i had to build the XS code with debug symbols embedded. Leont was kind enough to point me towards various possibilities, with the following being the correct addition to Makefile.PL for gcc on windows:
OPTIMIZE => '-ggdb3'
With that done, DrMemory provided me with extremely useful output:
Error #7: UNADDRESSABLE ACCESS: writing 0x032e9780-0x032e9784 4 byte(s)
# 0 dll.exp.dll!rpn_push [d:\cpan\OpenGL/pogl_rpn.xs:627]
# 1 dll.exp.dll!rpn_exec [d:\cpan\OpenGL/pogl_rpn.xs:694]
# 2 dll.exp.dll!XS_OpenGL__Array_calc [d:\cpan\OpenGL/pogl_rpn.xs:1023]
On a hunch i guessed that this write to memory that had not been allocated was screwing things up for the free() calls occuring later on. There was a lot of misguided bumbling and time-wasting attempts to understand why some parts of the code did what they did after that, but in the end a relatively simple fix was to add a check to the push, causing it to croak whenever a write outside of the allocated memory was attempted, which pinpointed the places where the actual allocation needed to be fixed.]]>
I still run ActivePerl v12, both because our production servers are at that version and because i see a lot of windows users at that version and lower. I use CPAN a lot and do tend to find obscure issues that break modules on v12 or cause incompatibilities.
However there's a fairly big stone in the way when going that path, since ActiveState has followed their rolling lockdown policy and with the release of Pumpkin Perl v18 locked the PPM servers for v12 (and below) to the public, leaving them only accessible to paying business customers. So i ended up having to compile it manually and this time managed to navigate the maze and figure out the right incantations.
cpan[1]> look DBD::mysql
Then it is necessary to set PATH up such that Makefile.PL can find mysqladmin.exe:
set PATH=%PATH%;d:\mysql\bin\
Running perl Makefile.PL will try to use mysqladmin and mysql_config to determine the appropiate include and lib paths. It's possible that it'll get the lib path right and you can copy the libs arguments it displayed verbatim. However it you see an opt in the lib path, you'll likely need to snip that off so the path points at the dir with mysqlclient.lib. Then you need to add an argument to add secur32 to the lib list and rerun Makefile.PL like so:
perl Makefile.PL --libs=" -LD:\mysql\lib -lmysqlclient -lzlib -lsecur32 "
All people talking about TIOBE miss one crucial point: It is software, it has an algorithm, and it is not "bad", it is buggy. That means it can be fixed.
So either fix it, or stop talking about it.
The TIOBE algorithm is to search for "[language] programming" on a number of search engines, then apply a weight to the resulting count, based on the search engine, and sum the results up to get a score.
They do this because C is a letter, Ruby is a stone, Python is a snake (or a comedy troupe). If they searched only for those words they'd get a lot of trash results. Adding programming means they will mostly get results that contain the phrases "[language] programming" or "[language] programming language". Especially the latter is important, since people talking about the other languages often add "programming language" to disambiguate; while Perl developers have no reason to do so (since the word is mostly unique), and simply don't, thus removing themselves from what TIOBE can find.
Here are the top four search engines and their weights:
What is notable? All of these sites either point to other content, or are directly editable. I'll go on with wikipedia, as that's the easiest example to use. Here are some search terms and their current result counts:
|perl programming
|python programming
The solution is simple: The string "perl programming language" needs to be added to results that are valid for Perl, but don't currently contain it and as such remain invisible to TIOBE. Once TIOBE can actually see the talk about Perl, it will at least stop being a source of false bad press for Perl.
Lastly, don't forget that if you own or create any of the type of contents that appear in any of previous result lists, make sure you mention "perl programming language" as well.
I am planning to write a small guide/comparison of the different ways to start a process in Perl and while thinking about all the ways i do know, became certain that:
1. my knowledge about the ways i know is not complete
2. there will be ways i do not even know about
Thus i am turning to the Perl community for help. Please tell me what ways you know to start a process in Perl and all of the permutations it can go through. :)]]>
In my previous post oalders (of Metacpan) asked me about how working on Windows influenced the process and in answering him i got a bit more wordy, so here's another post:
Video is a bit easier on Windows because, even if many of those are very amateur, it has a wider spread of tools available. However, that said, i still needed a bunch of linux tools (that i could luckily run on windows).
First issue was to free the stream from the Silverlight player. As mentioned in the previous blog post, lots of people helped with that.
Next was getting it dumped to the hard disk into a file i could actually play back afterwards. Windows Media Player couldn't, Mplayer crashed and only VLC finally worked. The command lines i saw didn't help a lot, but it led the way because it did produce some kind of file. By fiddling with the GUI i could get it to dump a usable file. And after converting the gui settings back into command line instructions (after cursing VLC's terrible documentation) i was able to perform the dumping with scripts. The command line instructions ended up being:
qw[ --sout-keep --sout "#transcode{vcodec=div3,acodec=mp3,vb=6000,ab=320,deinterlace}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{mux=asf,access=file,dst=$dump_file.asf}" ]
The "keep" option is important. When the stream was cut off at the venue, i.e. by shutting off a camera, VLC would try to reconnect to the stream and in the process overwrite the data it had dumped with an empty ASF header file. The keep "keep" option prevented that from happening (but not before a lot of data was lost). Another issue here was: While streaming and dumping the volume controls of VLC did literally nothing. Windows 7 helped here by providing me with volume sliders per process.
Next was converting the raw ASF stream into something that could be distributed. No tool i had could actually read it. At first i tried ASFTools, but that only resulted in a very desynched stream. This is caused by the fact that ASF has non-constant FPS. This doesn't mean it changes sometimes, but literally all the time. Hobbs helped me later with the conversion and said the file was apparently at 1000 FPS. So ASFTools was useless for the conversion, but it helped me with one thing: The asf files were unseekable, so short of watching the entire thing i could not tell what was actually dumped. ASFTools was able to fix that without recompression.
Hobbs contribution here was also immeasurable. I was entirely stumped with the conversion. None of my tools could make sense of the ASF files, even though they could play them. He worked out and provided me with parameters for mencoder to reencode them into AVI format, which ended up, after some fine-tuning, to be this:
mencoder -quiet -oac mp3lame -lameopts q=1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vqscale=3 -ffourcc DIVX -ofps 30 -o %1.avi %1
After that the lion's share of mental work was done and what remained was mostly menial work: Cutting the files into pieces and uploading them. Here's another part where Windows was really useful. VirtualDub is a free, open-source and lightweight tool for video processing. It also makes it extremely easy to cut videos without reencoding them by making it easy to navigate between keyframes, select regions and dump them straight to fily with Direct Stream mode. This took considerable time because i needed to go through all the dumps, find appropiate start and end points for the talks and figure out exactly what talk it was and what its title should be.
Last came the uploading to Youtube. I had luckily recently upgrade my internet connection, so i could upload at ~300kbyte/sec. However this also meant that i had uploaded four 50-minute videos before Youtube told me that it rejected the files for being too long. However, this restriction only required a validation of my cell phone number, which only took a minute all in all. I did need to reupload those videos again though. After that i dumped them all into a playlist (which i had to nuke at some point, because Youtube will happily add videos to playlists multiple times) and sorted them in some kind of chronological order.
And now you can watch them. :)
One last note: After i had uploaded many of the videos to youtube already, JT sent me an email to ask me to discuss a small matter relating to the videos and also mentioned that while i had not obtained permission, he would allow me to leave them up. I was a bit unhappy about it, but in retrospect he was correct. I did not think of it at the time because i was too busy figuring out the technical details, but i should have asked. However, please don't take this as discouragement in case you ever think of doing this for another con. Con organizers will love you to death if you offer to do this for them. Just make sure you let them know in advance and ask permission, because sometimes they have to deal with legal issues involving third parties.]]>
I wasn't able to attend YAPC::NA 2012.
Yet i was able to attent YAPC::NA 2012.
"Huh?" you say.
Simple, i was what is called a Remote Attendee. With #yapc on irc.perl.org, the con had an excellent and well-frequented IRC channel where both people that stayed at home, as well as physical con attendants mingled and talked about god, the world, con organization, the talks being given and software in general. Everyone was able to chat about the talks because the con orga had managed to make live streams available for four of the five con rooms and that in excellent quality.
So thanks a lot for JT and the rest of the YAPC::NA staff for a job extremely well done!
The only dark-grey mark: The venue insisted on using their own system, which streamed ASF via a Silverlight player. People could use Moonlight, but a good number of people refused that on principle. Enterprising perl mongers quickly figured out how to play the streams with VLC and also how to dump them to disk. On Friday, the third day, i started using these to capture on my windows machine and despite some setbacks via VLC, i was able to grab a bulk of the talks on that day.
All of these videos are now up in this Youtube Playlist. So if you didn't get to see any of the talks, or missed one you wanted to see, have a look, maybe it's in there. And if you haven't seen Perl and CPAN or the Surprise Guest Speaker talk you should go see them now.
As well, you might want to check back later, as i'm still working grabbing and converting more backlog. It won't be complete coverage of the con, which will be done later by Presenting Perl, but it should tide you over until then.
On request i can also make the raw video files available that i got. You can grab me via my CPAN email or as Mithaldu on irc.perl.org.]]>
Recently an article was published that claimed Perl usage in websites had dropped below 1%. For a Perl developer this seems ridiculous on the face of it. As it turned out, it was ridiculous, since the error margin was 17.6%. Meaning that for 17.6% of the sites they surveyed they could not even detect that they were using Perl. And they only survey the top 1 million, out of the 175 million active sites Netcraft reported. So the validity of these numbers is highly suspect.
So, all is fine? Catastrophe averted? Heh, not really.
Here's the issue: To a Perl developer this might seem ridiculous. Most of us are aware of how many websites use it under the hood. But to the average person it seems perfectly reasonable. The suffixes ".php" and ".asp" are ubiquitous and lets everyone know what the website is running on. Ruby and Python operations are proud of using their languages and flaunt it. To an average person it might even seem like there are more Ruby and Python websites.
Yet Perl is practically invisible. It drives a lot of sites, businesses and livelihoods worldwide, neither of which make any indication of the tools they're using. Let's take a look at a random sampling:
|Alexa Rank
These are sites that run on Perl, but to look at them you'd never even know it. Perl has advanced route dispatching mechanisms and its great modularity makes it possible to write an entire website as a single application. In fact, for most modern Perl web frameworks it has become customary to run web applications as self-hosting services to which a web server connects via a network port. Perl has made it very easy to design one's url structure exclusively around the data one serves, which has made it entirely impossible to tell for most Perl-driven sites that they actually are Perl.
Now, all of these sites have reasons to be proud of the tools they use. Some of them indeed are very proud, booking.com for example has donated 150.000 USD last year to Perl development and others on the list have donated smaller amounts as well or are supporting Perl conferences and spend a lot of money to have a presence on Perl conferences. Those on the list who are hiring, are also hiring Perl developers, some of them quite prominently. Even others on the list are websites created for the express purpose of serving the Perl community.
Yet none of them even mention Perl on their frontpage or even link to perl.org. I know Perl doesn't have nice and easy promotion buttons like Python or PHP do. But a simple text link does the job just as well. Just a simple "Built with Perl" in the footer or a sidebar would show that you care about Perl, would make it easier for job seekers to notice that you're looking for Perl devs and would raise the visibility of Perl and make it a more appealing choice for students looking to learn a dynamic language.
I do not believe this is done out of any maliciousness and that it's rather just a simple oversight, something that was never considered. As such i've sent a small email to each of those sites, asking them to consider this issue and to please add a link to perl.org or to weigh in on why they would not do it. Maybe they are issues that the Perl community can fix.
Similarly, if you own a site yourself that runs on Perl and does not link to perl.org:
Why does your site not link to perl.org?!
I like the Perl debugger a lot. I use it daily, since understanding code by seeing it execute is much better than guessing at what it does based on its API. I do however seldomly use the actual command line debugger module, but instead use the Perl debugger built into Komodo IDE because it streamlines a lot of the busywork that is necessitated by having a debugger bound to a terminal:
x $var<ret> every time i want to see my variables.
n<ret> or
r<ret> a lot.
All is not perfect however. Both Komodo IDE and perl5db.pl lack nice interfaces for doing the opposite of a breakpoint, which is ignoring statements. Komodo IDE has flat-out no interface for that. The core perl5db.pl allows the user to define a sub DB::watchfunction() which is executed in the debugger's scope and can skip out, but that's a lot of busywork and means I'd have to specifically write the sub for all of my code.
Why is this important? Consider Web::Simple's role Web::Dispatch::ToApp. This is executed a lot during the dispatch process, which is also where i do a lot of my debugging to make sure my routes are solid. That means whenever a piece of code goes
$obj->to_app->(), i have to step into
to_app in order to be able to step into the actual
call sub of
$obj. Another example would be Moo's Sub::Defer::defer_sub::ANON, which is invoked on almost all Moo attribute accessors. That kind of thing is annoying and a waste of time.
So, what i needed was a module that can be loaded in my code, will be given some import parameters and will cause both the Komodo IDE debugger as well as perl5db.pl to skip over statements based on package or fully qualified sub-routine name.
If you don't care about the implementation, you can skip to the end of the article now, where i show the solution.
Thanks to an article by brian d foy (hope i got his name right) I found that the Perl debugger modules are actually fairly simple: "Under the -d switch, perl calls &DB::DB before each statement" This is also documented in more detail in perldebguts.
Armed with that knowledge it's simple to write a function that augments the current
DB::DB() with a bit of code that interrogates the caller before heading into the debugger proper. We can't just directly call the old
DB::DB() function, since it relies on the stack level and makes heavy use of
caller(). So, a simple replacement that stores the old function and uses
goto &{$ref} should do the trick:
my $old_db = \&DB::DB;
*DB::DB = sub {
goto &{ $old_db };
Sadly it turns out that the goto makes the whole thing go out of the protected debugger scope in which
DB::DB is not executed for every statement; resulting in something akin to a fork bomb. So before we can actually do interesting stuff, we have to add a bit of code to skip out when we're being called from inside
DB or any other
DB::* module:
my $old_db = \&DB::DB;
*DB::DB = sub {
my $lvl = 0;
while ( my ( $pkg ) = caller( $lvl++ ) ) {
return if $pkg eq "DB" or $pkg =~ /^DB::/;
goto &{ $old_db };
I think it should be possible to munge with the stack directly as well, so we can just use
return $old_db->( @_ ), but my Perl-fu is not that good and Sub::UpLevel looks fairly daunting. (Suggestions welcome though.) One would think that doing it this way would make the debugger a lot slower, but honestly, i've been using it for a while now and couldn't notice a difference.
So, now we have a piece of code that acts as a pass-through to the debugger and doesn't blow everything up. That means we can add code to actually do things, but this turns out to be fairly trivial.
my %pkg_skip = (...);
my %sub_skip = (...);
my $old_db = \&DB::DB;
*DB::DB = sub {
my $lvl = 0;
while ( my ( $pkg ) = caller( $lvl++ ) ) {
return if $pkg eq "DB" or $pkg =~ /^DB::/;
return if $pkg_skip{ (caller)[0] };
my $sub = ( caller(1) )[3];
return if $sub and $sub_skip{$sub};
goto &{ $old_db };
There we go, a working piece of code that makes the debugger skip over statements in certain scopes or subs.
With a bit of parametrizing and cleaning up of this, the result is DB::Skip, a module that you can load in your code when you want to augment the debugger to skip statements. The use is extremely simple and it's made debugging a lot more pleasant for me already:
use DB::Skip (
pkgs => [
qw( Sub::Defer Sub::Quote Web::Dispatch::ToApp )
subs => [ 'Web::Dispatch::MAGIC_MIDDLEWARE_KEY' ]
And now back to your scheduled rant:
On monday a blog post made the rounds that claimed "Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance." Naturally that is not the entire truth. As it turns out they "trained" their test subjects using examples of code that they considered representative of what a user would find when trying to learn Perl from the internet. That code looked like this:
$x = &z(1, 100, 3);
sub z{
$a = $ [0];
$b = $ [1];
for ($i = $a; $i <= $b; $i++){
if ($d > $e) {
Naturally the outcry (including from me) went: "But that is Perl 4 code, of course the test subjects had a friggin hard time with it!" But were they wrong in choosing that example to teach with? Was that representative of what a complete perl beginner would find online?
Turns out, that yes, it was representative. The code above represents exactly the very first thing found when looking for Perl learning material.
How so? In a post yesterday i asked for help in finding out what a perl newbie would try first when wanting to learn Perl. Google Trends is a great tool, as it shows comparatively how often certain search terms are used. And it turns out that among the highest performing search terms there is one that is at least twice as often used as any other search term:
And quite frankly, the results for that search suck. Incredibly so.
The first result, a site by the University of Leeds, in the UK, carries this warning at the top: "This tutorial was written in the early 1990's for version 4 of Perl. Although it is now significantly out of date, it was a popular source of information for many people over many years. It has therefore been left on-line as part of the historical archive of the Internet." 21 years later, in 2011, it is still the very first thing Google brings up when looking for perl tutorials and that is exactly what newbies world-wide do first.
Make no mistake though, it is not just the first result that is terrible. Result two ( perltutorials.org ), features Perl 4 code as well and result three ( tizag.com ) attempts to teach "PERL", also using Perl 4 reminiscent code. Search result four is a highlight, in that it is Gabor Szabo's excellent fledgling Perl tutorial series with videos. But the very next result goes back to 2000, with an article on perl.com, which already features 5.10 and nicer forms of `for`, but still eschews talking about strict, warnings, or even using `my`. After that comes Learning Perl, which is a bit barebones, but features a nice modern Hello World. Yet right next up is a link to a free online copy of the book Beginning Perl, which might sound nice, but is anything but, thanks to being the edition from 2000, which teaches Perl 5.6.
I could go on, but it doesn't get any better. Only worse.
If you've wondered why the public perception of Perl is that of an old language, this is the reason. Our public face to anyone new to Perl and wanting to learn is dominated by material from the turn of the century, or earlier.
Now, i honestly do not know how to best solve this, but i can bring up some ideas.
Now, as far as i am aware there is no current, definitive and in-depth Perl tutorial anywhere. Please correct me if there is one.
Gabor Szabo has made a good start, but it's only a start. Right now his series is tiny and he is only one person. Another good attempt it learn.perl.org, bug again, too small in scope. It provides a few bites, a few examples, basically just a taste of Perl and then tells the peruser to look at other sites. These approaches suffer from a few flaws in that they fail to properly capture and provide for the newbie.
So, we need a good modern Perl tutorial. Not just books. We need something in the style of the Leeds University document, but with all the anachronisms filtered out and current knowledge inserted. Something like the Python Tutorial. And most importantly, it needs to be a community effort. It cannot hinge on just one person.
Possible options i see are to either create a wiki on a domain like tutorial.perl.org/com and take pains to ensure that editing and updating it is easy and effortless. Alternatively it could be done by ways of a github repo, possibly even within the perl core repo, which is then exported to HTML regularly.
Using a structure like this, the community at large could concentrate on writing the textual content, while people like Gabor can still contribute videos. It could be a very nice mix of the python tutorial and RailsCasts.
Make it good enough, publicize it and Google search results would right themselves on their own.
Another option would be to reach out to the maintainers of those sites and convince them to take down their sites or at the very least add links that prominently point to more modern content. Alternatively they could be asked to cooperate with the Perl community in making it possible to change and update the contents of those sites.
Then there's also the matter of the people linking to those sites, outreach could also be done to them by ways of finding out with www.backlinkwatch.com who links to them, and then convince those sites to remove/change their links to newer materials.
Failing the above two, there are still measures that could be taken to aggressively alter Google's view on what's relevant to perl tutorials. This could be in the form of burying results we do not care about, or promoting results we do care about. It is in my eyes a last resort and might involve money expenditure, but given the circumstances i do not see it as entirely unwarranted.
Edit: A suggestion from Reddit: "the new +1 feature for search results may come in handy. Get the entire community to +1 the same link."
Some questions still going through my head:
And with that, i close this entry and leave it to you to ponder and provide feedback and most importantly: Help repair the image of Perl.]]>
Right now i'm concentrating on what kind of search term a newbie would enter in Google. Luckily Google trends help a bit there, allowing me to compare between various search terms.
These are the search terms i came up with or was suggested:
perl tutorial 1.00 perl cgi 0.79 programming perl 0.45 perl examples 0.37 perl learn 0.10
Please help me and see if you can think of any other search terms that would be more often used than "perl tutorial". Thanks in advance.]]>


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This specification covers the classification of polyethylene film and sheeting up to 0.3 mm [0.012 in.] in thickness, inclusive. The film or sheeting may contain additives for the improvement of the surface properties, pigments, or stabilizers, or combinations thereof.
The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in brackets are for information only.
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Wednesday 20 June 2012
Jennifer Saunders, one half of the hugely popular duo French and Saunders and writer and star of Absolutely Fabulous has revealed in an interview on Radio 4's Chain Reaction that she has dedicated the musical Viva Forever to her children.
The star, who has three daughters - Ella, 26, Beattie, 24, and Freya, 21 - with comedian husband Adrian Edmondson, revealed in the interview that she couldn't bear to let anybody else write the script and "mess it up" because she and her daughters were such massive Spice Girls fans.
Jennifer said: "I got the call and I said 'Yes, I'd quite like to do that'. Because I'd hate someone else to do it and mess it up... I did it for my girls because it meant so much to them growing up. And we're all such big Spice Girls fans. I did it for them."
Saunders performed with the Spice Girls as part of a Comic Relief special with French and performed under the band name the Sugar Lumps.
The musical, Viva Forever, is co-written by Mamma Mia!'s Judy Craymer and follows a mother and daughter, with the backdrop of a TV talent show, using all the Spice Girls' hits to tell the story.
Jennifer revealed she has finished writing VIVA FOREVER and has already done two workshops of the script. It is due to open in the West End as early as November this year.
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