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"Found Perl"

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-18T03:06:37

I'm creating "Found Perl", a little, virtual Perl memorabilia museum. I've got a lot of stuff to include, and I bet the community has orders of magnitude more.

I've been looking at Found Magazine since I heard about it on This American Life. They publish pictures things that people find lying about: mostly flat things like scraps of paper. I'd like to do that for Perl.

For instance, I have on display:

  • Pictures of a couple of versions of the Perl Monger t-shirt
  • The temporary camel tattoo I was giving out at one of the Perl conferences
  • My original receipt for my first copy of Programming perl
  • Mark Jason's card announcing "Perl Advanced Techniques Handbook" (now "Higher Order Perl")
  • and some other things


There is a lot of stuff I'd like to find, and even more stuff I probably don't know about. If you have something, please send me an image or scan at found@theperlreview.com.

  • a picture of Amelia, the camel mascot of London.pm
  • Nat's "Perl is my bitch" sticker set (What were the other slogans?
  • An original blow-in card for The Perl Journal
  • Pictures of other Perl t-shirts, especially the one given out at the first couple of Perl conferences
  • The O'Reilly beret given out at one of the Perl conferences
  • Scans of signatures from various Perl people (I don't have any myself)
  • Tim Bunce's handwriting on a bar napkin saying "Generic database interface: use GDI or something" :)
  • Images of swag (keychains, water bottles, pens) that Perl vendors gave out.
  • Instances of the string "Perl" in everyday life. I remember seeing an image of a European road sign pointing to "Perl". I think it was German, but I can't find it.
  • and lots of other stuff that might be out there.


Kenmore

n1vux on 2005-01-18T03:41:16

Thank you, your TPR DBA address in Chicago may explain (finally) why Chicago-based Sears sells Kenmore appliances. Us Boston folk have wondered if their old, elegant Regional admin and warehouse at 309-401 Park Drive / 201 Brookline Ave (near Kenmore Sq and Fenway Park, now the "Landmark Center", a urban-mall theatre/Staples/BestBuy) was really that great an influence on a Chicago chain. If the Sears household appliance line is named for a street in Chicago, or the town the street is named for, that makes much more sense.

(One doubts Mrs. Sears taking residence in Brookline had anything to do with it.)

Re:Kenmore

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-18T04:09:52

I think the streets are named for the appliances. I've been trying to find out the origins for the names of the streets around me, but I haven't figured out Kenmore yet.

There are an amazing number of household names that come out of Chicago though. This month's Chicago magazine goes through most of the roster. :)

London.pm Camel

davorg on 2005-01-18T06:55:25

Actually the photo of a camel that came with London.pm's Camel Adoption Pack was just a random camel. It wasn't a picture of the camel that we adopted.

Re:London.pm Camel

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-18T07:20:20

Now everyone knows!

I think I saw saw pictures from a London.pm outing, so I'll greb one of those. :)

Perl in Germany

ethan on 2005-01-18T07:16:21

Instances of the string "Perl" in everyday life. I remember seeing an image of a European road sign pointing to "Perl". I think it was German, but I can't find it.

I can't help you with the road-sign (although I didn't look too closely), but a little wine village on the banks of the river Mosel is called Perl. They even have a website with a pretty emblem.

Re:Perl in Germany

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-18T07:23:26

Curious font on that page. Where have I seen that before :)

Re:Perl in Germany

domm on 2005-01-18T08:06:34

I once got a bottle of wine from "Perl" as a price for an obfuscation at the German Perl Workshop 2002. Unfourtunatly, I have neither the bottle nor an image of it. But maybe somebody from the GPW orgas can help..., I'll ask them..

Re:Perl in Germany

Aristotle on 2005-01-18T09:25:27

I looked closer, but even some quality time with Google didn't bring up anything. I wonder what the look on the receptionist's face will be if I call the town hall and ask them if someone has a photo of the road sign.

Re:Perl in Germany

drhyde on 2005-01-18T10:56:45

Here you are: 1 2 3.

Taken during the 2001 Linuxbierwanderung.

LAMP/2

jmm on 2005-01-18T15:30:41

Image 3 shows that Apache is on the same road as Perl. :-)

Re:LAMP/2

jmm on 2005-01-18T15:33:41

Or rather, 5/6 of Apache is on the same road as Perl. I guess the other 1/6 is dedicated to e-business.

Café Perl

BooK on 2005-01-18T08:24:20

I have an ugly scan of a receipt from Café Perl, in Lyon (where Lyon.pm meets). The receipt itself was given to me in 2000 (before Lyon.pm even existed) by a friend who knew I was interested in Perl and kept it for me. Note that the prices are in FRF, not EUR. I scanned it only a while later, which explains why it looks so... old.

Grab the shot at http://paris.mongueurs.net/meetings/2001/cafeperl.jpg.

Re:Café Perl

rafael on 2005-01-18T08:49:26

The Café Perl has even a website. That said, you should be able to scan a menu or something.

Re:Café Perl

BooK on 2005-01-18T09:06:50

You mean, steal a menu, and then scan it?

Re:Café Perl

rafael on 2005-01-18T09:51:30

OK, just take a photo with a shiny numerical camera then :)

"GDI" or "DBI"

bart on 2005-01-18T08:33:09

Good thing Tim Bunce didn't decide to actually call it "GDI", as that acronym is taken, as the name for the group of drawing functions in the Windows API.

But which was first? Windows' GDI probably already had that name in Windows 3.0 (1990) or Windows 3.1 (1992). I thought DBI's roots lie in 1994 — which is definitely not as old as Windows.

Re:"GDI" or "DBI"

Aristotle on 2005-01-18T09:22:22

The GDI was in fact part of Windows 3.0.

Rue de la Perle

mir on 2005-01-18T14:15:51

I have a picture of the road sign "Rue de la Perle", in Paris, taken at YAPC::EU. Of course it's on my website at home, which is down while I am away. I'll send it to you next week.

Amelia and PimB

muttley on 2005-01-18T18:13:30

I'm currently tending to Amelia so I'll try and get a photo of her sometime soon. I can also supply photos of the front and back of the original Perl is my Bitch tshirts, the sticker (which I thought I was given by Dave Adler at OSCon 2001 but memory may fail).

I've also got examples of the last London.pm tshirts (which had logos for Sunnydale.pm, Rivendell.pm, Ankh-Morpork.pm, Tatooine.pm and ZZ9pluralZalpha.pm) as seen

http://www.thegestalt.org/tshirts/

Also - The first ever London.pm meeting

http://london.pm.org/nx_meetings/1998_aug.shtml

As I recall, there were no blow-in cards

hfb on 2005-01-19T05:15:12

in the original first few TPJs. I don't think it was until they went to glossy format that the dreaded cards that fall everywhere began. I've got a picture of MJD's hairy ass from YAPC EU :)

Re:As I recall, there were no blow-in cards

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-20T12:27:13

Oh, yeah, I don't think they were in teh magazine. Jon mentioned some in the O'Reilly Perl books, I think. I don't know if I ever saw the fabled card myself.

So what might you have, Elaine? Anything history worthy rather than simply a curiousity? :)

and looking at the Getty....

hfb on 2005-01-19T05:19:13

http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=Perl&place=&nation=&prev_page=1&eng lish=Y&subjectid=7019688 Perl Island, almost as if somone in the USGS knew....

Beret

pudge on 2005-01-19T05:33:05

I have one of those berets if you still want an image ...

Re:Beret

brian_d_foy on 2005-01-20T12:41:51

Yes, please send an image. Thanks :)

movie advisory

Zed on 2005-01-20T23:16:06

Polar Express contains mild perl.