The Routine

After the alarm
I hit snooze twice
I woke up to the smell
of eucalyptus in the park.
(It's a much more enticing aroma
once you realize it isn't pee.)
I showered, made a cup of coffee and
I sat on the couch for a bit
before starting my commute.
I took a brief look at the internet
which steadfastly
refuses to be interesting.
The cat decided
that my sunlit lap
would be perfect for a nap.
(There are bits of the carpet on his claws.
He knows that scratching the carpet makes me upset
so he thoughtfully waits until I am not around.)
It isn't that he is a particularly pleasant cat
he's just being nice to me today because it suits him.
I gave him salmon on Sunday
and he'd very much like
for that to become
the routine.

Geek Post

This mock history of programming languages is pretty funny.

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

Some examples:

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles."

1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.