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I was reading Lefty’s recent blog post and was reminded (by way of a certain scene) of being pissed off by Broderick’s s/egg/globe/ in the 2003 production of The Music Man. I was going to put the following in the comments, but I decided not to in order to keep the conversation on topic :)

Which reminds me of a tangential blather. Did any of you see the recent re-make of Music Man with Matthew Broderick? Do you recall how he changed the script to refer to Columbus and the *globe* instead of Columbus and the *egg*?

That really irritated me. You can’t see it in the above picture, but while I was in the pit and waiting for our cues, I was coincidently reading Larry Wall’s Camel book. I was so confused about Harold Hill’s reference to “Columbus’ conception of the egg” until I read the following:

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl3/cookbook/prf2_01.htm

Anyway…

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So, I changed my blog name to something more catchy. "C.J.'s Journal of Studlyness" was fun for a while, but it's time to try something new. The new name ("The Pædantic Programmer's LiveJournal") is a play on The Pragmatic Programmer, but using the word "pædant" instead of "pragrmatic."

I changed the title to this in particular because:

• everyone else has a more mature and catchy blog name than me


• I'm re-building colliertech.org, after the most recent hacking attack, and it seems like a good time to make some major changes


• I find myself being being more and more pædantic in my code, my work, and my life these days


• because my wordpress blog (currently down) is my primary blog, but this one is important, too</lil>
  

Thoughts? I didn't find any other hits on Google for "pedantic programmer," so I don't think I'm stepping on anybody's toes...

Whee! :)

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A while ago, krow asked how folks worked. I was going to respond, but I was too busy.

( So let's make this quick )

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Created a separate blog for Everett Wireless entries.

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