Oatmeal (was warrior geeks)

[Ken Seehof]

I like oatmeal (porridge) too.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Churches" <tchur at optushome.com.au>
To: "Garry Hodgson" <garry at sage.att.com>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: warrior geeks


> Garry Hodgson wrote:
> > 
> > a funny thing happened at IPC9.  a bunch of were sitting in the
> > lounge (bar) talking, and one person mentioned that he was going
> > to study kendo while in japan this year.  i asked if he had previous
> > martial arts experience, and he said yes, he'd studied judo.
> > it then turned out that in this group of maybe 6-7 people, we had
> > this judo/kendo student, another who's done karate and now kickboxing,
> > another who did karate, myself (okinawan karate, aikijutsu and others),
> > and a pa qua practitioner.  at the next table sat another tae kwon
> > do/aikido
> > student.
> > 
> > it seemed like an odd coincidence, but it made me wonder: is there an
> > unusually high percentage of MA practitioners among the python
> > community?
> > or the open source community?  or software in general?
> 
> I'll use our time zone advantage to jump in early on this thread and
> opine that it is way off-topic. Not that I am opposed to
> marital...whoops...martial arts (although they are not my cup of tea),
> but I am concerned that if this threads continues, sooner or later
> someone will mention the whole "Geeks with Guns" thing that Eric S.
> Raymond promotes (see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/geeks-with-guns/ or for
> even worse IMHO see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/ ), especially given
> ESR's apparent fondness for Python. That sort of thing gives me a fit of
> the shudders (playing with guns, not ESR's fondness for Python). I would
> have thought that if male hackers were looking for a hobby which
> involves phallic-shaped objects and chemically-propelled projectiles,
> then model rocketry would be just the ticket.
> 
> There, that should put an immediate end to this very off-topic thread...
> 
> Tim C
> Sydney, Australia
> PS Damn! I was cooking porridge (oatmeal) for breakfast and became so
> carried away composing this message that I completely forgot to stir the
> pot...
> 
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