[Chicago-talk] OT: Procrastination

[Jim Thomason]

On 2/12/07, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Joshua McAdams <joshua.mcadams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, so this has nothing to do with Perl, but it really struck me as
> > hilarious.  It is a video about procrastination.... time to learn a
> > new computer language instead of doing something useful in the ones
> > that I already know :)

I was going to post this video...but I never got around to it...

It's much much worse when you procrastinate by learning truly useless
languages. I think I wasted the better part of a day once learning the
intricacies of brainfuck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck),
including writing not just a brainfuck interpreter, but a brainfuck ->
C translator so I could compile my useless little programs for insane
crazy raw power.

-Jim....