Praise the Lord for the gift of television

So here I am, sleepless and in coding deadlock. I don't mind getting stuck when I'm trying to do something difficult, but for crying out loud, all I'm trying to do is install a pissy little Perl script to let my students upload their essays. I tried two scripts I downloaded and one which I more-or-less wrote myself. No dice. This is starting to remind me of my one attempt at learning C++, when I failed to compile "Hello World".

Anyway, in frustration, I switch on the TV and find my all-time favourite South Park episode - the rain forest.

There's a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass!
Let's knock it all down and get rid of it fast!
You say save the rainforest, but what do you know?
You've never been to the rainforest before!

Getting Gay With Kids is here!
To tell you things you might not like to hear!
You only fight these causes cause caring sells!
All you activists can go f**k yourselves!

As a wise friend of mine once said (or rather, sang) "TV is everything."

There is a limit, though. The program about to start is Equus. It's a great play, but I don't think I can handle it at the moment. I'm more in the mood for something like "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" (anyone here remember Kentucky Fried Movie?).

Very sleepless Solri

I'm starting to get like Agent Cooper in "My Life, My Tapes" when he experiments with sleep deprivation.

Evidence:

1. I have failed to perform one of the most basic Perl operations imaginable
2. I emailed one of my LJ friends saying that I thought her splitting infinitives was sexy
3. I had a brief urge to pay a lot of money to order Kentucky Fried Movie from Amazon.
4. Everything I think gets recursive.
5. I have serious doubts about whether I really understand the difference between recursiveness and self-reference
6. I have just written a Chef song about existentialism.

Code monkey

Well, I finally managed to get a decentamount of sleep, and have spent the whole day coding. I managed to solve my file upload problem, and finally found a forum script that did what I wanted and didn't even need any hacking. It makes me feel kind of lazy, as I was about to code the whole thing from scratch and learn useful stuff in the process (like I did with the upload script), but I thought I'd give the assembled Perl hackers out there one more chance. The script in question, SimpleForum, is great - everything a good, no nonsense Perl-CGI script should be.

Then I did some fiddling with the course website that contains all of this stuff. It's starting to look quite pretty.