What's the right answer?
Written by Piers Cawley on , updated
So, in my quest to get Amazon links working I’ve been spending time hanging out on the #rubyonrails irc channel asking dumb questions and generally liking the place, when someone[1] asked “Are you the famous Perl Programmer, Piers Cawley?” What’s the right answer? Sadly, I wasn’t shameless enough to simply answer “Yes.” Coincidence is good isn’t it? A couple of hours earlier, I’d been reading Mary Branscombe on the talk Danny O’Brien gave at this year’s OpenTech about ‘geek micro celebrity’ or some such topic.
So, in my quest to get Amazon links working I’ve been spending time hanging out on the #rubyonrails irc channel asking dumb questions and generally liking the place, when someone[1] asked “Are you the famous Perl Programmer, Piers Cawley?”
What’s the right answer? Sadly, I wasn’t shameless enough to simply answer “Yes.”
Coincidence is good isn’t it? A couple of hours earlier, I’d been reading Mary Branscombe on the talk Danny O’Brien gave at this year’s OpenTech about ‘geek micro celebrity’ or some such topic. How very odd.
[1] I don’t log my IRC, so I can’t remember who. Sorry.