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Advent Calendar For Geeks
bLanark writes "Well, as children and adults all over the world begin their day with chocolate, with the traditional Advent calendar, I'd like to remind you that there's an alternative for geeks. The Perl Advent calendar will give you a new Perl tip every day right up to Christmas."
Yeah do we really need this extra in our life without everything else we have on?
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There's a reason people turn off the "hints" in IDE's, 3D modeling software, Word, Open office... ect. It's because if there is a problem, we'll go out and search for the solution. Now they want to put the daily hints behind the advent calender? oy vey!
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gifts and chocolate for perl tips?
Gee. I'll jump right on that~
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Once again someone has replaced your advent chocolate with a rolaids. Sorry about that.
Animated paper clips, or be gone.
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"Well, as children and adults all over the world begin their day with chocolate, with the traditional Advent calendar, I'd like to remind you that there's an alternative...
No thanks. I'd rather have the chocolate.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
What about those who aren't looking forward to christmas? I guess this is another grievance to air in front of the festivus pole.
Our kids get a calendar full of secular Lego bits for the upcoming solstice, Saturnalia, Sol invictus, Yule, or other midwinter festival. We made them ourselves, with 24 numbered pouches (each with a velcro flap).
Yeah, I know that starting on 1 December there should generally be only 21 pouches to reach the solstice, 23 for Saturnalia, and 25 for Yule and Sol invictus, but kids here expect to get prezzies on 24 December, so that's when the calendar ends.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Also don't forget about the Perl 6 advent calendar that's just posted its first entry this year!
About as interesting as spinning top made of clay.
The Perl community has more advent calendars than the one linked in TFA:
(Catalyst, Plack and Dancer are web frameworks)
Good thing that Perl is dead. Just imagine how it'd overflow the internet with advent calendars if it were alive!
How about a geek advent calendar that features non-fictional historical events?
Eg:
Ala Lovelace, the first programmer, born 10 December 1815
Charles Babbage, inventor of the computer, born 26 December 1791
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, born December 28, 1969
(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)
I'm sure others can fill in the gaps...
Phillip.
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"(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)"
I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
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has its Hubble Space Telescope advent calendar for the third year, with RSS feed.
Doesn't anyone care about us Python coders?
Don't forget about the most excellent SysAdvent calendar: http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia (There is no great genius without a mixture of madness) - Aristotle
This is my personal favorite this month. You get a free iPhone app each day. These all normally cost money.
http://appventcalendar.com/
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the twelve days of Clippymas!"
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the Lego advent calendar
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I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
Not any more, of course. When I was growing up, there were all these New Year celebrations. I remember the booze, the pointy hats, the grand public displays featuring dioramas of Father Time and Baby New Year. Good times...
Then, some time during the 2020's I think, the protests began. The Chinese were first, of course, complaining that January 1 wasn't their new year, bitching about how offended they were whenever anybody wished them a "Happy New Year!" in the beginning of January. "America is a diverse country," they would say, "and we should respect and honor ALL new year's celebrations equally. And besides, we built your fuckin' railroads, it's the least you could do, right?" The ACLU got involved when the Pagans starting acting up, noting that "The New Year begins November 1. In fact, you wouldn't even have ANY new year if it wasn't for our sun god! Goddam Christians just co-opted our New Year like they did everything else of ours!" The floodgates were opened then. Muslims, Hindus, 7th Day Adventists -- who even *knew* their were enough census-registered Klingons to get tlhIngan Qummem declared a National Bank Holiday every tenth month?
Yeah, "Happy New Year," those were the days. Egg nog and Guy Lombardo, and the ball dropping in Time Square. Back when you could drop balls in Times Square, without the cubes and rhomboids challenging it in the courts...
Wouldn't this be more appropriate for Lent, rather than Christmas? I'm not a Christian, but I was educated in their ways as a child in Scotland. It reminds me a lot of the Father Ted episode when they hire the nun for lent...
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You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999, when computer programmers averted a world-wide apocalypse. January 1st was henceforward declared a national holiday in their honour, as you will find it is this year if you check your diary.
Whereas Christmas has slowly died along with its associated religion, apart from strong poultry sales, the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day.
Phillip.
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"You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999..."
I was awake in my local time zone. Due to early-onset middle age, I was not "partying like it was 1999", however.
"the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day."
Don't get me wrong: New Year's Day is pretty much the only annual holiday that I observe personally (i.e. in private, not public motion-goings-thru) in any way, as a fresh-start event. But I know that I'm atypical, and more-observed than Christmas? Not around here it ain't.
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PHP advent 2010 (Or on twitter)
Angry Birds (Seasons) features an advent calendar with a new level released every day.
More?
Insensitive clods pushing their Christian agenda! Just for that I'll go and make an AppleScript Hanukkah Menorah, that'll show em.