The dark con shall not avail you

[mattmatt]

Due to a sudden opening in my schedule, Jeff and I were able to go and see The Da Vinci Code this evening. I was somewhat miffed to find that it had nothing at all to do with the Mona Lisa, and only very peripherally to do with Leonardo Da Vinci: it was pretty much National Treasure: Europe.

Ploddingly predictable, and made even more obtuse by the

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[jwm]

Does Da Vinci Code have all those neat Adam-West-Batman style streams of free association puzzle solving that National Treasure is supposed to have? That sounded funny... (Also, maybe you're supposed to drink every time you see a triangle?)

Re: PHP; in the presentations that the Django guys do, they like to slag it off by showing a slide of the first thirty builtin functions starting with A. Gets laughs every time.

[mattmatt]

Oh, naturally. And of course, even when it would have made far more sense for the clues to be written in French or Latin, they always relied on puns and rhymes in English.

Goddamned Americanocentrism.

[genedecanter]

To be fair to poor Mr. Brown, he does somewhat justify the English language thing along the lines of "English is the European language most detached from the Church's influence, and also the language of science/the enlightenment" or something like that. But yeah, a bit silly.

"Friday ze thirteense!"

And I see you've been studying at the J.K. Rowling school of French accented dialogue writing...

[sarahdotcom]

It sort of sounds like the Broken Sword computer games - except that sort of thing plays much better as a game. Have you ever played them?

[mpj17]

PHP really sucks; it sucks even more now that I know there are
alternatives. Still, beats ASP, I suppose.

Ruby on Rails is proof that the
Zope documentation sucks ☺.

[mattmatt]

To be fair, Python wouldn't be the language it is without Ruby.

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[mpj17]

True; Python would not be the language it is without Haskell or C either ;)

[mattmatt]

You misunderstand me: I'm not talking about features that Python's had since the outset. I'm talking about things like closures that were ported directly into later versions of Python from Ruby.

[lepamplemousse]

hah triangles are sooo hard to identify, I mean they come in 3 forms! I'm *SO* glad they pointed them all out to me with nifty computer highlighting techniques, I'm just a silly American watching ANOTHER never-ending, boring, predictable Tom Hanks movie. From now on I'm only watching movies about Jesus' relatives that have been banned by the Catholic church (i.e. Dogma).

Ew hoyts coffee! Never buy coffee from a vending machine and never buy coffee from a place that doesn't value the 3 colors of a good espresso shot. It will only end in tears...and bad tasting coffee.