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<a href="?node_id=6364;user=vroom">586</a> </b></td> </tr> <tr><td>CPAN ID:</td><td><a href="https://metacpan.org/author/VROOM">VROOM</td></tr> <tr><td>Location:</td><td><i>n/a</i></td></tr> <tr> <td>User's localtime:</td><td> Dec 01, 2024 at 02:36 EST </td> </tr><tr> <td>Scratchpad:</td><td> <a href="?node_id=358113;viewmode=public">View</a> </td> </tr> <tr><td>Member of:</td><td> <a href="?node_id=114">gods</a> </td> </tr> <tr class="msg_user"><td>For this user:</td><td><a href="?a=vroom;node=Super%20Search">Search nodes</a></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <!--<TABLE border=1> <TR> <TD> <B>Computer Books I'm Currently Reading</B><BR> Learning Tk/Perl<BR> Refactoring-Improving the design of existing code<BR> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><BR> <H4>Current PM Projects</H4> <LI>Rewriting super search to use mysql fulltext indexes. <BR><BR> Feel like telling me what to read???<BR> [add entries to vroom's book list] <P> Suggestions I've received so far: <UL> <LI>[Petruchio] suggested [isbn://0141181230|Siddhartha] by Herman Hesse <LI>[Ovid] suggested [isbn://1573221341|The View from a Monastery] which should be on its way in the mail now <LI>[jptxs] suggested Nietzsche's [isbn://087975558X|Beyond Good and Evil] and [isbn://0553348981|Jitterbug Perfume] by Tom Robbins <LI>[ailie] suggested [isbn://0671874349|Life after God] and [isbn://0006385427|Girlfriend in a Coma] both by Douglas Coupland whose books I've liked for the most part. She also added [isbn://0743219260|Fear and Loathing in America] by Hunter S. Thompson to the List <LI>[Adam] suggested [isbn://0380789019|Neverwhere] by Neil Gaiman, and [isbn://0140042520|The Dharma Bums] by Jack Kerouac <LI>[ChOas] suggested [isbn://0553277472|Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance] by Robert M. Pirsig <LI>[Macphisto] suggested [isbn://0060977493|God of Small Things] by Arundhati Roy, [isbn://0684873214|Screwjack] by Hunter S. Thompson <LI>[mr_leisure] suggested [isbn://0679743243|The Informers] by Bret Easton Ellis <LI>[a] suggested [isbn://0312207743|The Empty Mirror] by Janwillem Van de Wetering <LI>[lemming] suggested [isbn://0140085025|Forced Entries] by Jim Carrol <LI>[BlueLines] suggestions include [isbn://0195105192|What is Mathematics] by Richard Courant, [isbn://0679781498|Less than Zero] and [isbn://0679735771|American Psycho] by Bret Easto Ellis, and [isbn://0375725784 |A Heartbeaking Work Of Staggering Genius] by Dave Eggers <CENTER> <HR><h3>Monks I've Met</h3> [aardvark],[ailie],[ar0n],[atl]<BR> [Beatnik],[BigJoe],[BooK]<BR> [clemburg],[cogent],[Corion]<BR> [Desdinova]<BR> [Erudil]<BR> [gnat]<BR> [Jouke],[jmcnamara],[jptxs]<BR> [kudra]<BR> [merlyn]<BR> [nate],[neophyte],[neshura]<BR> [OeufMayo]<BR> [petral],[pschoonveld]<BR> [tilly],[toadi]<BR> [virtualsue]<BR> [zdog]<BR> (in progress... feel free to remind me if we've met) </CENTER> <HR> my ordered list of pm development tasks <UL> <S><LI>Fix search for no matches case</S> <S><LI>Add crazyinsomniac's ticker login</S> <LI>Add patch apply undo and redo capabilities <LI>Add OeufMayo's HTML-fixes as patches and then apply <LI>Code listing for PerlMonks current install Everything Modules <LI>pmdev task listing enhancements </UL>--> <!-- os:Linux,Win98--> <!-- birthday:1978/09/20 --> <!-- email:vroom@cs.hope.edu --> <!-- tshirts:red=1,blue=1 --> <!--location:latitude=42.45.48,longitude=-86.06.38--> <!-- book-loaned:0764550292,user=9270 --> <!-- book-loaned:0-7645-0762-1,user=9270 --> <!-- go through bugs, change backup machine, wikis, troll preventions? --> <br /> </p> <!-- END general container --> <!--/contained stuff--> </td> <!--nodelet handling code (monktainer)--> <td width="20%" valign="top" align="right" class="nodelets"> <!-- Begin nodelets --> <table class='nodelet_container' id='nodelet_container'> <!-- Nodelet Break --> <tbody class="nodelet" id="Log_In"> <tr><th class="nodelet_head"> <span class="title">Log In</span><a href="?node=About the Log In" class="nodelethead-annot"><sup>?</sup></a> </th></tr> <tr><td class="nodelet_body"> <form method="post" action="?" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="login"> <span><input type="hidden" name="node_id" value="979" ></input></span> <input type="hidden" name="op" value="login" /> <input type="hidden" name="lastnode_id" value="979" /> <table border="0"><tr><td> Username:</td><td> <input type="text" name="user" size="10" maxlength="34" /> </td></tr><tr><td> Password:</td><td> <input type="password" name="passwd" size="10" maxlength="10" /> </td></tr></table> <label><input type="checkbox" name="expires" value="+10y" />remember me</label> <input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" /> <br /> <a href="?node_id=2513">What's my password?</a> <br /> <a href="?node_id=101">Create A New User</a> </form> </td></tr> </tbody> <!-- Nodelet Break --> <tbody class="nodelet" id="Domain_Nodelet"> <tr><th class="nodelet_head"> <span class="title">Domain Nodelet</span><a href="?node=About the Domain Nodelet" class="nodelethead-annot"><sup>?</sup></a> </th></tr> <tr><td class="nodelet_body"> <p class='domain_link' align='center'><a class='wwwdomainlink' href="http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=979">www</a>.<a class='domainlink' href="http://perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=979">com</a> | <span class='currentdomain'>www</span>.<a class='domainlink' href="http://perlmonks.net/index.pl?node_id=979">net</a> | <a class='wwwdomainlink' href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=979">www</a>.<a class='domainlink' href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=979">org</a></p> </td></tr> </tbody> <!-- Nodelet Break --> <tbody class="nodelet" id="Chatterbox"> <tr><th class="nodelet_head"> <span class="title">Chatterbox</span><a href="?node=About the Chatterbox" class="nodelethead-annot"><sup>?</sup></a> </th></tr> <tr><td class="nodelet_body"> <form method="get" action="?" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <span><input type="hidden" name="node_id" value="979" ></input></span><i class="cb_quiet">and all is quiet...</i><br /> <input type="submit" name="foo" value="Refresh" /> </form> <i><br /> <a href="?node=ChatterBox%20FAQ">How do I use this?</a> • <a href="?node=last%20hour%20of%20cb">Last hour</a> • <a href="?node_id=20842">Other CB clients</a></i> </td></tr> </tbody> <!-- Nodelet Break --> <tbody class="nodelet" id="Other_Users"> <tr><th class="nodelet_head"> <span class="title">Other Users</span><a href="?node=About the Other Users" class="nodelethead-annot"><sup>?</sup></a> </th></tr> <tr><td class="nodelet_body"> <span class="other-users-text">Others <span class="other-users-blurb">having a coffee break in</span> the Monastery:</span> (3)<br /><ul class="spacey-list"><li><span class='even-row'><span class='item-000'><span class='user-level-26'><span class='user-461912'><a title="GrandFather's home node. 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It updates <a href="?node_id=596792">last hour of cb</a> and helps me join a discussion </label><br /><label><input type="radio" name="vote" value="1" />The! Worst! Thing! Ever! It always ignores my self-upvotes for <a href="?node_id=11155739">cb stats</a>!!?! </label><br /><label><input type="radio" name="vote" value="2" />Somewhat useful in settling debates with coin flips and dice rolls </label><br /><label><input type="radio" name="vote" value="3" /><a href="?node=Chatterbot">Chatterbot</a>? Nobody told me about it! </label><br /><label><input type="radio" name="vote" value="4" />Not my cup of tea. I do not do that live chat thingie...</label><br /><input type="submit" value="Vote" /></p></form><p><a href="?node_id=11162559">Results (56 votes)</a>. 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