Is pumpkineer a word?

Alan Burlison has clearly bored of his old toy Solaris 10 and found himself a new one, Paint Shop Pro 8. In his copious spare time when he's not getting the Solaris 10 kernel ready or playing his drum in a samba band [ the biggest in the group he tells me but, well, boys do tend to fancy everything they have as 'the biggest' :) ] he has been keeping himself quite busy honing his rather good skill with PSP.

He first had a go with the Perl 6 Essentials book parody which I now have 2 t-shirts emblazoned with. Now he has done a rather nice spoof of Jarkko as the dark lord of 5.8.1 which was taken, in part, from a series of halloween photos I took a few years ago when I went all Martha Stewart on the pumpkins and made Jarkko pose with them. I made a composite photo just to see how much work Alan must have had to do to get this right. Not resting on his laurels he also made Perl Pumpking in a Nutshell which could deserve to be an actual book, though I suspect the wisdom required for this job cannot be merely learned from an ORA book.

I feel so unworthy of my copy of photoshop now. :) On the upside, Jarkko finally released 5.8.1 and, after more than 3 years of mistress perl, maybe he'll decide to obsess on something else for a change....

26 Sep 2003 at 21:56, Helsinki