my watch was on chronometer this morning, which resulted in me either time-warping into the future, or taking 45 minutes to walk from my bed to my desk.
"Using macros is dangerous" -- slashdot
i also had some weird dreams. one was me being in the west wing, although i can't remember if i was josh or bartlet. probably josh. the other one was a bunch of people near a zoo or a post office? we had some letters or something that were supposed to be mailed. i don't get it either.
i really hate cpan.
inexplicably google has no hits for "cpan drinking game". sometime in the future i need to sit down with joe and phil and formalize the rules, but here's a draft off the top of my head:
- every time you need to use cpan, just take a shot to get things started. it's going to be a long day.
- if cpan needs to be configured, even though you configured it before, take a shot.
- take another shot, because you accidentally typed the wrong path to lynx.
- when cpan tries to download something using lynx, but you're behind a firewall, and it doesn't do passive mode automatically, and then you have to go back and configure it again, yeah take a shot.
- now when it tries to download from sourceforget.net, and they changed their mirror layout, so every file needs to be tried twice, take another shot (and go back and configure it again).
- cpan will now tell you that you can upgrade it. tell it no, watch it try to upgrade perl (!!!), and finish the bottle.
- oh but try to kill the ncftpget process so it doesn't download perl. then watch it run ncftp to get it, take a shot, and then kill that.
- now take another shot as cpan uses Net::FTP so you can't just kill it.
- finish the second bottle as you realize it's the year 2002 and you are still using this crap.
conan doesn't do cpan
this ain't ovah