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The Evolution of a Programmer:
Guru Hacker
% echo "Hello, world."
Senior Manager
% zmail jim
I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.
How many astronomers are needed to decide Pluto is not a planet? 2500... but we are smarter, we know it's a dog! ;-)
In the improbable case you read this blog and also have seen the film adaptation of Douglas Adam's book The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, there is also little chance you are interested to know that, as it is said in IMDB:
The initial scene, with the dolphins prancing about, is a dolphin show in the "Loro Parque" Zoo, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain.
We were amazed the first time we watch the film in the cinema, because Loro Parque and its logo (look closely to dolphin trainers) are very well known here. Tenerife is the biggest of the Canary Islands (I live in Gran Canaria) and Loro Parque (Parrot Park) is like a little theme park specialized in animal shows. It begun with parrots but now have other exotic animals, like dolphins and penguins!
My girlfriend quite likes Loro Parque (and The Hitchiker's Guide, btw) and the last time she was there, took me this gift:
How Tux ended promoting Loro Parque? Don't know. But the answer is 42.
What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?
Paid subscriptions, only to Sky & Telescope. It's the best astronomy magazine out there: great articles which cover both observing and more theoric articles about cosmology and astrophysics. I used to be subscribed to Linux Journal, which is a great magazine too, but the amount of articles in the web killed my interested in it. I also receive Astronomia, on which I wrote years ago.