Where I've been and what I've learned along the way…
Metropolis
Fritz Lang
1927
Silent with Musical Score
The scifi film from which all others spring! Recent restoration (by Kino) is very good, with recovered footage and original musical score. Worth watching again if all you’ve seen are the inferior low-budget prints. In spite of its age, this film has one of the best robots ever depicted on film!
This was the big one — the complete Wilderness Waterway from Flamingo to Everglades City. Of course we avoided the actual marked “trail” as much as possible. This was a real paddler’s trip. The trail is nominally 99 miles; I estimate we traveled more than 120 total. We went out to the Gulf twice and “boomeranged” back up the Harney and Broad Rivers with the tide. We also took a side trip down to Gopher Key and saw lots of birds there, including a Roseate Spoonbill. We saw dolphins fishing in the shallows. We also encountered manatees twice. The last night we returned to the Gulf and camped on Pavilion Key.
“Perl is the duct tape of the Internet.“
This expressive, multi-platform, open-source, (FREE!) programming language has framed my professional life for the past ten years. The Camel Book is essential reading for anyone interested in Perl. See also Larry Wall‘s essay on Natural Language Principles in Perl.