[cam.pm] Happy New Year!

[Jonathan Worthington]

"Stray Toaster" <mwk at stray-toaster.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:45:41PM +0000, lucifer at typewriter.org.uk wrote:
>>
>> It's alive!
>>
>> According to the 2005 Perl Monger census[0] we still exist, so I wondered
>> if anyone would like to partake of some beer.  If no-one suggests a
>> sensible evening and vaguely city-centre pub within a week, you'll get
>> stuck with my choice.  Additionally, Birmingham.pm[1], with their
>> brand-spanking new website, are threatening to come and invade sometime.
>> We can't let those brummies drink us under the table ;P
>
> Are there any vaguely sensible city centre pubs? Can I ask to avoid
> Wednesday eves, as I play bridge in Witersfield that night.
>
Wednesday would not suit me either.  I can do other evenings.

> Tuesday would mean I would turn up a bit later, but otherwise, I would
> be happy with any night. I think. No, wait, I have a life, honest, but
> workarounds always um, worked around.
>
> Of course, if it is on a school night, and I am driving back home (not
> being a city centre type) then little alcohol would be quaffed. But I
> can talk forever.
>
Provided it's somewhere I can walk to from Emmanuel College in a sensible 
amount of time, I'll come and make sure there's someone to listen to you 
talking forever.  I don't promise to listen forever though.  ;-)

> And as for brum-types drinking us under the table, hah, not a mission. I
> mean, they are from Birmingham. BIRM-ING-HAM.
>

>> In perl-related excitement, as part of my recently-promoted duties, today 
>> I
>> got to parse large bits of PubMed[2] and battle with Spreadsheet::Excel.
>
Heh, my Perl fun today consisted of hacking the code that generates the op 
translation dispatch code for my .NET => PIR translator so it could handle 
2-byte instruction codes as well as the single byte ones.  Fun, huh...  I 
can run 100 or the 212 .NET ops on Parrot now though, which is kinda nice, 
but means there's still some way to go.

Jonathan