maw writes
"It has come to my attention that Larry Wall is also Weird Al! Go figure...:) "
That explains a lot of things.
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Replying to myself
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Anonymous Coward
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You guys are hopeless:-)
Sigh...
The title of the article contained "==" instead of "eq", which, as two of you correctly pointed out, is invalid for Perl string compares.
I purposely used "==". And I purposely put the "-w" in as well.
"Larry Wall" == "Weird Al" but "Larry Wall" ne "Weird Al".
Linus Torvalds == Bill Gates
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Anonymous Coward
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Every friday there are two pictures of celebrities that look alike in Finland's largest newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat", a week or so ago it was Linus and Bill...
"Get your modem running, on the data highway Looking for some perl scripts, and the latest CGI My modem's gonna get to smoking, if I don't slowdown soon If it doesn't get a break, it's gonna go boom
Born to downloooaaaddd
(with sincere apologies to Steppenwolf)
John Waalkes jwaalkes@edge.net
Hey... Let's be careful here...
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Anonymous Coward
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Next thing I know, you're going to be telling me that George Lucas is Elton John
No no no, George Lucas is Meatloaf.
Wrong
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Anonymous Coward
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Sorry, Weird Al didn't do these parodies.
Hey mister!
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Anonymous Coward
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It's '/.' not './'! hehe Nice comment though.
Now we have to kill you...
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Anonymous Coward
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It's in the NAME!
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Anonymous Coward
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Larry WeirdALL
Weird Al writes intentionally silly music
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Anonymous Coward
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Is this the same guy as Weird Al Yankovic - I think Yankovic ( not sure of spelling ) goes back to the sixties, but I don't remember any details of his work
Should be "Larry Wall" eq "Weird Al"
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Anonymous Coward
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Really!
Who is Wierd Al ?
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Anonymous Coward
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Who the hell is Wierd Al? I can't get through to his site - overloaded or something. What kind of music?
Please refer to radio stations in SE USA, mp3's, etc. so I can listen. Not up to date with current music scene.
I know who Larry Wall is but can't believe this.
over 40
I know this is just noise, but...
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David+Rolfe
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Weird Al kicks ass! Larry Wall kicks ass!
I just couldn't help myself.
-- Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
Eat, sleep, go to the movies, go for long walks, watch TV, listen to CDs and play around on the computer.
That's all I need to know.
Why am I not very surprised?
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knghtbrd
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Okay, who is RMS now? hehe
Weird Al writes intentionally silly music
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J.+J.+Ramsey
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Mostly he writes song parodies, such as "Eat It", which is a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", or "Living in the 'Fridge", which is a parody of Aerosmith's (?) "Living on the Edge". He also does jokey polkas that are medleys of various contemporary songs, and occasionally does silly songs where both lyrics and music are his own, like "Dare to be Stupid". I don't think you'll hear him on the radio too much, although he got his start on Dr. Demento, a radio show devoted to noveltly songs.
I think we need a new perl manpage: perllyrics. It should contain the lyrics to all the greats like 'Harvey the wonder hamster', 'It\'s living in the fridge' and 'Like a surgeon'. Would give us perl nutters something to read during a much needed break;)
You can also find a pretty complete set of lyrics here.
My favorite is "When I Was Your Age" - which I'm inclined to sing when young whippersnappers complain that their computers are too slow ("when I was your age, all we had were 4K TRS-80s, and we had to hack each bit out of raw silicon with a chisel").
remove -w so you dont get those annoying messages? good one. how bout we ignore anything a debugger has to say about our code? If he hadn't used -w, it would have told him nothing was wrong, but still failed to work. I don't see how this would have helped debug the program.
What's this a kids show character from Russia or what?
Brings back some ancient memories.
-- Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. - W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
Here's evidence that Weird Al is not Larry Wall
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timur
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Ok, it took me a long time searching through the Weird Al web site, but I knew there was evidence to prove they weren't the same person. Oh sure, obviously they're NOT the same person (duh!), but those pictures were so much alike I needed to find hard evidence.
I'm sure Weird Al done the following parodies: A song sounding like the Windows 95 'Start Me Up' advert criticising the reliability of Windows 95 and a parody of Jingle Bell's that went: Microsoft, Microsoft, bloatware all the way.
So he does certainly have some interest in computers and by the sounds of it he doesn't particularly like Microsoft and therefore probably likes open source. Perl is open source - so anything's possible! --
It took me nearly three minutes to figure out what the hell you were talking about.
No, no, back in high school, I was a staff member on the underground newspaper, The Low Life. In order to make a token gesture at anonymity (we knew that the faculty knew who we were and they knew that we knew....) everyone used handles. The editor gave me that one. I don't know why.
At about the same time I became active on bbses and the net, and just kept using that as my handle.
Thanks for laughing;)
-- --
This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Capped bandwidth on luser websites *sigh* LAME
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Harik
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Cluebat to the head.
Hint, kiddie, bandwidth costs $$$$. Mindspring (rightly) checks the bandwidth someone is using so that someone paying 19.95 a month dosn't cost them more then that to provide. I'll cut my users breaks if they have a cool site, but with a million? I doubt I'd be able to keep up. Only in an extreme circumstance.
Here's another hint: EVERYONE has capped bandwith. I've got capped bandwidth at 45gig/day. What's slashdot on now, full T3? Thats still an "ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit." Am I a "lame skript kiddie" for only having 3 T1s? Is Rob lame for putting up with his lame, bandwidth capped T3? Does that mean./ runs on a lame windows webserver?
The word "Duh" applies here. The poster saw a cool website and submitted it. What, he's supposed to know the policies of every ISP in the world. Do you? Are you sure?
According to the official Weird Al website, or at least according to documents linked from there, Al is not related to Frankie. Just thought I'd mention it.
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-- Do I look like I speak for my employer?
Capped bandwidth on luser websites *sigh* LAME
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nnet
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Gee, maybe I oughtta go back to Windows and rely on my ISPs limited bandwidth for web pages too.
The poster of the site couldn't even use a legit email address, true cowardice in the "script kiddie" sense. Shame that/. had to contribute to this "DoS' of sorts. I hope the luser who runs the web page gets a clue and goes with a *nix. Who needs ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit anyway. ..
Well the MP3's I downloaded had weird al mentioned in the titles. So they were wrong. Anybody know who did do those parodies? I guess the people who put together the MP3's thought Weird Al == Parodies
Probably the best known spoof artist. Really got going in the 80's by making the lyrics to otherwise braindead songs interesting.
Madonna's "Like a Virgin" -> WA's "Like a Surgeon" M. Jackson's "Beat it" -> WA's "Eat it" and so on.
"Why do you have to be such an angry young man, don't want no Captain Crunch don't want no Raisin Bran. Well don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan, so eat it!"
Hey... Let's be careful here...
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TheBeginner
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Be careful what you tell me. Some things are just not meant for humanity to know. Please, let me go on living in my nice fantasy world while you "bearers of light" can find the dark truth for yourself.
Next thing I know, you're going to be telling me that George Lucas is Elton John. The buck stops here.
Connection closed by foreign host. [gtm@gtm gtm]$ telnet www.weirdal.com 80 Trying 207.171.7.183... Connected to www.weirdal.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0
Slashdot Mirror
You guys are hopeless :-)
Sigh...
The title of the article contained "==" instead of
"eq", which, as two of you correctly pointed out,
is invalid for Perl string compares.
I purposely used "==". And I purposely put the
"-w" in as well.
"Larry Wall" == "Weird Al" but "Larry Wall" ne
"Weird Al".
Every friday there are two pictures of
celebrities that look alike in Finland's
largest newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat", a
week or so ago it was Linus and Bill...
... you had to ask?
$ cat lw==wa.pl ./lw==wa.pl ./lw==wa.pl line 4. ./lw==wa.pl line 4.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$larryWall = "Larry Wall";
$weirdAl = "Weird Al";
print "Larry Wall *does* == Weird Al!\n" if($larryWall == $weirdAl);
$
Argument "Weird Al" isn't numeric in eq at
Argument "Larry Wall" isn't numeric in eq at
Larry Wall *does* == Weird Al!
$
What are we to make of this?
What are we to make of this?
You should remove the -w so you don't get those annoying messages, the following one liner works as well:
print "Larry Wall == Weird Al\n" if(LarryWall == WeirdAl);
It was a *pun*!
"Get your modem running, on the data highway
Looking for some perl scripts, and the latest CGI
My modem's gonna get to smoking, if I don't slowdown soon
If it doesn't get a break, it's gonna go boom
Born to downloooaaaddd
(with sincere apologies to Steppenwolf)
John Waalkes
jwaalkes@edge.net
Next thing I know, you're going to be telling me that George Lucas is Elton John
No no no, George Lucas is Meatloaf.
Sorry, Weird Al didn't do these parodies.
It's '/.' not './'! hehe
Nice comment though.
...and all /. readers!
Like we don't have enough work to do?
-the commitee
gee, this is fun
Larry WeirdALL
Is this the same guy as Weird Al Yankovic -
I think Yankovic ( not sure of spelling ) goes
back to the sixties, but I don't remember
any details of his work
Really!
Who the hell is Wierd Al? I can't get through to his site -
overloaded or something. What kind of music?
Please refer to radio stations in SE USA, mp3's, etc. so I can
listen. Not up to date with current music scene.
I know who Larry Wall is but can't believe this.
over 40
Weird Al kicks ass!
Larry Wall kicks ass!
I just couldn't help myself.
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
thats fuckin hillarious :) SCARY, really :P
Nothing more than the fact that you don't know Perl. Try using ``eq'' for string comparisons.
http://www.phys.psu.edu/faculty/CoutuS/index.html
From the Weird Al FAQ:
What does Al do for fun in his spare time??
Eat, sleep, go to the movies, go for long walks, watch TV, listen to CDs and play around on the computer.
That's all I need to know.
Okay, who is RMS now? hehe
Mostly he writes song parodies, such as "Eat It", which is a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", or "Living in the 'Fridge", which is a parody of Aerosmith's (?) "Living on the Edge". He also does jokey polkas that are medleys of various contemporary songs, and occasionally does silly songs where both lyrics and music are his own, like "Dare to be Stupid". I don't think you'll hear him on the radio too much, although he got his start on Dr. Demento, a radio show devoted to noveltly songs.
Lyrics to some of his songs are available here.
So this is another example of the Slashdot-Effect-as-Denial-of-Service-Attack?
I think we need a new perl manpage: perllyrics. ;)
It should contain the lyrics to all the greats
like 'Harvey the wonder hamster', 'It\'s living
in the fridge' and 'Like a surgeon'. Would give
us perl nutters something to read during a much
needed break
Mathijs
My favorite is "When I Was Your Age" - which I'm inclined to sing when young whippersnappers complain that their computers are too slow ("when I was your age, all we had were 4K TRS-80s, and we had to hack each bit out of raw silicon with a chisel").
remove -w so you dont get those annoying messages? good one. how bout we ignore anything a debugger has to say about our code? If he hadn't used -w, it would have told him nothing was wrong, but still failed to work. I don't see how this would have helped debug the program.
Please don't give bad advice.
What's this a kids show character from Russia or what?
Brings back some ancient memories.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
So, take a look at these pictures of Weird Al:
http://www.weirdal.com/alshair.jpg
http://www.weirdal.com/ricky2.jpg
http://www.weirdal.com/ricky3.jpg
Yes, they don't at first look like Weird Al, but they're from his web site and he claims they are pictures of him.
So what's the proof? Look at the ear lobes. Larry's don't hang, but Al's do.
--
Timur Tabi
Remove "nospam_" from email address
Yes, that's him, "Weird Al" Yankovic... son of Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King.
-- Bryan Feir
I'm sure Weird Al done the following parodies:
A song sounding like the Windows 95 'Start Me Up' advert criticising the reliability of Windows 95 and a parody of Jingle Bell's that went:
Microsoft, Microsoft, bloatware all the way.
So he does certainly have some interest in computers and by the sounds of it he doesn't particularly like Microsoft and therefore probably likes open source. Perl is open source - so anything's possible!
--
It took me nearly three minutes to figure out what the hell you were talking about.
;)
No, no, back in high school, I was a staff member on the underground newspaper, The Low Life. In order to make a token gesture at anonymity (we knew that the faculty knew who we were and they knew that we knew....) everyone used handles. The editor gave me that one. I don't know why.
At about the same time I became active on bbses and the net, and just kept using that as my handle.
Thanks for laughing
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Hint, kiddie, bandwidth costs $$$$. Mindspring (rightly) checks the bandwidth someone is using so that someone paying 19.95 a month dosn't cost them more then that to provide. I'll cut my users breaks if they have a cool site, but with a million? I doubt I'd be able to keep up. Only in an extreme circumstance.
Here's another hint: EVERYONE has capped bandwith. I've got capped bandwidth at 45gig/day. What's slashdot on now, full T3? Thats still an "ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit." Am I a "lame skript kiddie" for only having 3 T1s? Is Rob lame for putting up with his lame, bandwidth capped T3? Does that mean ./ runs on a lame windows webserver?
The word "Duh" applies here. The poster saw a cool website and submitted it. What, he's supposed to know the policies of every ISP in the world. Do you? Are you sure?
--Dan
Weird Al === Larry Wall
All part of the coinky dink I suppose.
--
Infuriate left and right
What! Thats an insult!
End Transmission....
Yes - They both have contributed, but their
lyrics (ie docs) are both INSANE!
mORE POWER TO oreilly!
We need stuff like this more often.. Geez, it's been a long time since I fell off my chair. :)
"...like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
dunno, they kinda look alike but maybe i am just guessing
my other penis is a vagina
According to the official Weird Al website, or at least according to documents linked from there, Al is not related to Frankie. Just thought I'd mention it.
--
Do I look like I speak for my employer?
Gee, maybe I oughtta go back to Windows and rely on my ISPs limited bandwidth for web pages too.
/. had to contribute to this "DoS' of sorts. I hope the luser who runs the web page gets a clue and goes with a *nix. Who needs ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit anyway.
The poster of the site couldn't even use a legit email address, true cowardice in the "script kiddie" sense. Shame that
..
In Perl, you use eq not ==...
Well the MP3's I downloaded had weird al mentioned in the titles. So they were wrong. Anybody know who did do those parodies?
I guess the people who put together the MP3's thought Weird Al == Parodies
Cool Linux PC Badges!
Relax. English isn't C or Perl, but it is certainly allowed to borrow some stuff from it occasinoally.
Besides, we all know it's true; whether you follow perfect C or Perl grammar isn't, in this case, all that important.
You're a suburbanite.
Probably the best known spoof artist. Really got going in the 80's by making the lyrics to otherwise braindead songs interesting.
Madonna's "Like a Virgin" -> WA's "Like a Surgeon"
M. Jackson's "Beat it" -> WA's "Eat it"
and so on.
"Why do you have to be such an angry young man, don't want no Captain Crunch don't want no Raisin Bran. Well don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan, so eat it!"
Be careful what you tell me. Some things are just not meant for humanity to know. Please, let me go on living in my nice fantasy world while you "bearers of light" can find the dark truth for yourself.
Next thing I know, you're going to be telling me that George Lucas is Elton John. The buck stops here.
14 digits of Pi are all we need.
Yikes that is scary! Almost as bad as NDL.
-Ben
to "Weird Al"'s I Think I'm a Clone Now?
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Lighten up on those scoobie snacks. Maybe I should as well...I too see it! Its been there right in front of me all along....*LOL
Good one!!!
Oh and to the AC posting the PERL code earlier...
What are you possibly thinking ???
**** Sworn to Fun, Loyal to None. ****
[gtm@gtm gtm]$ queso www.wall.org
205.178.11.135:80 * Solaris 2.x
[gtm@gtm gtm]$ queso www.weirdal.com
207.171.7.183:80 * Solaris 2.x
[gtm@gtm gtm]$ telnet www.wall.org 80
Trying 205.178.11.135...
Connected to www.wall.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 23:25:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2.5
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 05:50:18 GMT
ETag: "103d5c-49c-35f3741a"
Content-Length: 1180
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
[gtm@gtm gtm]$ telnet www.weirdal.com 80
Trying 207.171.7.183...
Connected to www.weirdal.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 23:34:04 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2.5
Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 06:49:18 GMT
ETag: "2569a1-442-3704686e"
Content-Length: 1090
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.