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title: "Saved by a Thanksgiving food coma"
date: 2002-12-02T15:58:29-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/12/02/ooocdo/
author: Les Orchard
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# Saved by a Thanksgiving food coma

You know you're an info freako and coding junkie when:  Your trusty iBook - home to all of your projects in development, news aggregators, and blogging tools - goes into the shop for repairs, and all you're left with is a Treo 300 for convienient from-the-couch computing over the long Thanksgiving weekend.  Most people would settle into a good book or maybe a James Bond marathon.
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Instead, being thankful for unlimited data access and at least having a screen at which to stare (albeit tiny), you install <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/LispMe">LispMe</a> and a handful of editors and tutorials in a sudden, inspired effort to a) learn a new language (Scheme) and b) write a news aggregator and blogging tool for <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PalmOS">PalmOS</a> as your first project.  I mean, hey, <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/LispMe">LispMe</a> has access to net sockets on <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/PalmOS">PalmOS</a> -  <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/XmlRpc">XmlRpc</a> and <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/REST">REST</a>, here we come!
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Then, you go have Thanksgiving dinner, doze on your mother's couch in a food coma, dream about hordes of attacking parentheses (too much Scheme and <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/NetHack">NetHack</a>), and all but forget about the whole thing.  Watching the James Bond marathon isn't so bad after all.
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