2 posts tagged “geekery”

Do you have any tattoos? If not, if you were going to get inked, what would you get?

I have none.

I am considering getting a regular expression (probably standard Perl-style), but I haven't yet decided on the most appropriate pattern (and whether or not it should be a substitution or just a match), nor where. The latter will probably stem from the graphic qualities provided by the former.

Inadequate, but considered, have been:

(@life) =~ m/art|love|truth/g;
$habits =~ s/vice/virtue/g;
s/life/art/g;
s/pain/compassion/g;

These are all too general; a tattoo should be extremely idiosyncratic, in my mind, though I suppose being tattooed with a regular expression is pretty particular in itself.

Ideally there would be at least a double-entendre; additionally, obscurity is almost as important here as content. I'd like a tattoo that only a special pair of eyes will rightly perceive.

Cambot.

Gypsy.

Tom Servo.

Cro(oooo)w.