From doomvox at gmail.com Thu May 5 14:20:28 2022 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 14:20:28 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 05/08 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: Herbert A. Simon, "The Sciences of the Artificial" (1969): "Since there are now many such devices in the world, and since the properties that describe them also appear to be shared by the human central nervous system, nothing prevents us from developing a natural history of them. We can study them as we would rabbits or chipmunks and discover how they behave under different patterns of environmental stimulation." The Raku Study Group May 8, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82957926647?pwd=MlFISnUydDY2OStFbjdQMWliYkV6QT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/285726547 From doomvox at gmail.com Thu May 19 13:17:47 2022 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:17:47 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 05/22 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: Colin McPhee, "A House in Bali" (1944-47): "Beside the palm-leaf books which he had been working on the day before there lay a little fan of blossoms. "How do you honour books in America? Durus asked as he set a lamp on the table. A large mantis flew out of the dark and settled in the circle of light. "I found it hard to explain." The Raku Study Group May 22, 2022 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88470112234?pwd=RUFwTy9Qd2NCdGZGdldielJyZi9zQT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/286018197/